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Lou H, Zhang F, Lu L, Ding Y, Hao X. Xanthohumol from Humulus lupulus L. potentiates the killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and mitigates liver toxicity by the combination of isoniazid in mouse tuberculosis models. RSC Adv 2020; 10:13223-13231. [PMID: 35492081 PMCID: PMC9051424 DOI: 10.1039/c9ra10347c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Accepted: 03/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Anti-tuberculosis drug induced hepatotoxicity is the main problem in tuberculosis patients. Xanthohumol, a major prenyl chalcone present in hops, has diverse biological activities including antibacterial and hepatoprotective activities. The present research aimed to investigate the combined effect of xanthohumol with isoniazid against Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected mice. The liver damage was induced by treatment with isoniazid daily for 8 weeks. During the experiment, the uninfected group and the normal control group received an equal volume of saline, the xanthohumol group received an equal volume of xanthohumol only, and the isoniazid group received an equal volume of isoniazid only. The combination therapy group received not only isoniazid but also the corresponding xanthohumol. Experimental results showed that isoniazid combined with xanthohumol resulted in the lowest lung and spleen colony-forming unit counts compared to other groups. Furthermore, other positive outcomes implied that isoniazid combined with xanthohumol obviously alleviated anti-tuberculosis drug induced liver damage as indicated by the declined levels of ALT, AST, ALP, bilirubin and MDA and the increased levels of SOD, GSH-Px and ATPases. The study of the mechanisms underlying the hepatoprotective activity showed that xanthohumol was able to activate the antioxidative defense system and protect the hepatocellular membrane. The combination of isoniazid and xanthohumol had more effective bacteriostatic and hepatoprotective activities on Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected mice than isoniazid alone. In conclusion, xanthohumol has the potential to be an effective adjuvant in tuberculosis treatment. Anti-tuberculosis drug induced hepatotoxicity is the main problem in tuberculosis patients.![]()
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- Hai Lou
- Department of Tuberculosis
- Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
- Tongji University School of Medicine
- Shanghai
- China
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- Department of Respiratory
- Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
- Tongji University School of Medicinec
- Shanghai
- China
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- Department of Respiratory
- Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
- Tongji University School of Medicinec
- Shanghai
- China
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology
- Basic Medical College
- Second Military Medical University
- Shanghai
- China
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- Department of Tuberculosis
- Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
- Tongji University School of Medicine
- Shanghai
- China
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Algammal AM, Wahdan A, Elhaig MM. Potential efficiency of conventional and advanced approaches used to detect Mycobacterium bovis in cattle. Microb Pathog 2019; 134:103574. [PMID: 31170450 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2019.103574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2019] [Revised: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 06/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The present study was aimed to assess the prevalence and efficiency of techniques for the diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) including enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), Gamma interferon assay (IFN-γ) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in comparison to skin tuberculin test and culture technique. A total of 2600 cross-breed dairy cattle in Menoufia and Daqahlia governorates were tested by the single intradermal tuberculin test where the disease prevalence was 1.8%. Serum and whole blood samples were collected from positive tuberculin reactors for ELISA and IFN-γ assay, respectively. After slaughtering of positive tuberculin reactors, the post-mortem examination was carried out and tissue samples were collected for the bacteriological examination and PCR. The percentage of visible lesions of tuberculin reactors was 78.7%, while non-visible lesions were 21.27%. Culture technique revealed that the percentage of bTB was 63.8%. The ELISA and IFN-γ assay using short-term culture filtrate (ST-CF) prepared antigen revealed higher sensitivity (72.3% and 82.9%) than the bovine purified protein derivative (PPD-B) antigen. Although prepared ST-CF antigen has great efficiency and eligibility for the diagnosis of bTB, PCR appeared to have a higher sensitivity (85.1%) than other diagnostic methods when dealing with post-mortem samples. Gamma interferon assay using ST-CF antigen is recommended for antemortem diagnosis of bTB in cattle.
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- Abdelazeem M Algammal
- Department of Bacteriology, Mycology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, 41522, Egypt
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- Department of Bacteriology, Mycology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, 41522, Egypt
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- Department of Animal Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, 41522, Egypt.
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Pattanashetty SH, Hosamani K, Barretto DA. Microwave assisted synthesis, computational study and biological evaluation of novel quinolin-2(1H)-one based pyrazoline hybrids. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cdc.2018.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Agarwal S, Verma E, Kumar V, Lall N, Sau S, Iyer AK, Kashaw SK. An integrated computational approach of molecular dynamics simulations, receptor binding studies and pharmacophore mapping analysis in search of potent inhibitors against tuberculosis. J Mol Graph Model 2018; 83:17-32. [PMID: 29753941 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2018.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 04/26/2018] [Accepted: 04/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Tuberculosis is an infectious chronic disease caused by obligate pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis that affects millions of people worldwide. Although many first and second line drugs are available for its treatment, but their irrational use has adversely lead to the emerging cases of multiple drug resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. Therefore, there is an intense need to develop novel potent analogues for its treatment. This has prompted us to develop potent analogues against TB. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome provides us with number of validated targets to combat against TB. Study of Mtb genome disclosed six epoxide hydrolases (A to F) which convert harmful epoxide into diols and act as a potential drug target for rational drug design. Our current strategy is to develop such analogues which inhibits epoxide hydrolase enzyme present in Mtb genome. To achieve this, we adopted an integrated computational approach involving QSAR, pharmacophore mapping, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation studies. The approach envisaged vital information about the role of molecular descriptors, essential pharmacophoric features and binding energy for compounds to bind into the active site of epoxide hydrolase. Molecular docking analysis revealed that analogues exhibited significant binding to Mtb epoxide hydrolase. Further, three docked complexes 2s, 37s and 15s with high, moderate and low docking scores respectively were selected for molecular dynamics simulation studies. RMSD analysis revealed that all complexes are stable with average RMSD below 2 Å throughout the 10 ns simulations. The B-factor analysis showed that the active site residues of epoxide hydrolase are flexible enough to interact with inhibitor. Moreover, to confirm the binding of these urea derivatives, MM-GBSA binding energy analysis were performed. The calculations showed that 37s has more binding affinity (ΔGtotal = -52.24 kcal/mol) towards epoxide hydrolase compared to 2s (ΔGtotal = -51.70 kcal/mol) and 15s (ΔGtotal = -49.97 kcal/mol). The structural features inferred in our study may provide the future directions to the scientists towards the discovery of new chemical entity exhibiting anti-TB property.
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- Shivangi Agarwal
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (A Central University), Sagar, MP, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (A Central University), Sagar, MP, India
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
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- Use-inspired Biomaterials & integrated Nano Delivery (U-BiND) Systems Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Use-inspired Biomaterials & integrated Nano Delivery (U-BiND) Systems Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA; Molecular Imaging Program, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Harisingh Gour University (A Central University), Sagar, MP, India.
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Mishra SK, Tripathi G, Kishore N, Singh RK, Singh A, Tiwari VK. Drug development against tuberculosis: Impact of alkaloids. Eur J Med Chem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Singh P, Saha T, Mishra P, Parai MK, Ireddy S, Lavanya Kumar M S, Krishna S, Kumar SK, Chaturvedi V, Sinha S, Siddiqi MI, Panda G. Additional synthesis on thiophene-containing trisubstituted methanes (TRSMs) as inhibitors of M. tuberculosis and 3D-QSAR studies. SAR AND QSAR IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2016; 27:911-937. [PMID: 27885861 DOI: 10.1080/1062936x.2016.1243575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 09/28/2016] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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We earlier reported thiophene-containing trisubstituted methanes (TRSMs) as novel cores carrying anti-tubercular activity, and identified S006-830 as the phenotypic lead with potent bactericidal activity against single- and multi-drug resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb). In this work, we carried out additional synthesis of several TRSMs. The reaction scheme essentially followed the Grignard reaction and Friedel-Crafts alkylation, followed by insertion of a dialkylaminoethyl chain. We also performed microbiological evaluations including in vitro screening against the virulent strain M. tb H37Rv, cytotoxicity assessment in the Vero C-1008 cell line, and 3D-QSAR studies with comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) and comparative molecular similarity index analysis (CoMSIA). CoMFA and CoMSIA models yielded good statistical results in terms of q2 and r2 values, suggesting the validity of the models. It was concluded that a para-substituted benzene ring with bulkier electron-donating groups and aminoalkyl chains are required for higher inhibitory capacity against M. tuberculosis. We believe that these insights will rationally guide the design of newer, optimal, TRSMs.
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- P Singh
- a Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron , Montpellier , France
- b Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- c Molecular and Structural Biology Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- d Biochemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- d Biochemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- d Biochemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- c Molecular and Structural Biology Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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A 96-well microtiter plate assay for high-throughput screening of Mycobacterium tuberculosis dTDP-d-glucose 4,6-dehydratase inhibitors. Anal Biochem 2016; 498:53-8. [PMID: 26778528 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2016.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2015] [Revised: 01/05/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis dTDP-d-glucose 4,6-dehydratase (RmlB) is the second enzyme for the biosynthesis of dTDP-l-rhamnose, which is a sugar donor to the synthesis of the cell wall linker, d-N-acetylglucosamine-l-rhamnose. RmlB is essential to mycobacterial growth and is not found in humans; therefore, it is a potential target for developing new anti-tuberculosis drugs. So far, there has been no suitable method for high-throughput screening of RmlB inhibitors. Here, the recombinant M. tuberculosis RmlB was purified and an absorbance-based microtiter plate assay was developed for RmlB activity. It could be used for high-throughput screening of RmlB inhibitors. The kinetic properties of M. tuberculosis RmlB, including optimal pH, optimal temperature, the effect of metal ions, and the kinetic parameters, were determined with this assay. The inhibitory effects of dTTP and dTDP on M. tuberculosis RmlB were also studied with the assay.
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Keri RS, Hiremathad A, Budagumpi S, Nagaraja BM. Comprehensive Review in Current Developments of Benzimidazole-Based Medicinal Chemistry. Chem Biol Drug Des 2014; 86:19-65. [PMID: 25352112 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.12462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2014] [Accepted: 10/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The properties of benzimidazole and its derivatives have been studied over more than one hundred years. Benzimidazole derivatives are useful intermediates/subunits for the development of molecules of pharmaceutical or biological interest. Substituted benzimidazole derivatives have found applications in diverse therapeutic areas such as antiulcer, anticancer agents, and anthelmintic species to name just a few. This work systematically gives a comprehensive review in current developments of benzimidazole-based compounds in the whole range of medicinal chemistry as anticancer, antibacterial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, analgesic agents, anti-HIV, antioxidant, anticonvulsant, antitubercular, antidiabetic, antileishmanial, antihistaminic, antimalarial agents, and other medicinal agents. This review will further be helpful for the researcher on the basis of substitution pattern around the nucleus with an aim to help medicinal chemists for developing an SAR on benzimidazole drugs/compounds.
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- Rangappa S Keri
- Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain University, Jain Global Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka, 562112, India
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- Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain University, Jain Global Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka, 562112, India
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- Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain University, Jain Global Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka, 562112, India
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- Centre for Nano and Material Sciences, Jain University, Jain Global Campus, Bangalore, Karnataka, 562112, India
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Uridine monophosphate kinase as potential target for tuberculosis: From target to lead identification. Interdiscip Sci 2014; 5:296-311. [DOI: 10.1007/s12539-013-0180-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2012] [Revised: 03/08/2013] [Accepted: 03/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Purwantini E, Mukhopadhyay B. Rv0132c of Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes a coenzyme F420-dependent hydroxymycolic acid dehydrogenase. PLoS One 2013; 8:e81985. [PMID: 24349169 PMCID: PMC3859598 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2013] [Accepted: 10/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to manipulate and evade human immune system is in part due to its extraordinarily complex cell wall. One of the key components of this cell wall is a family of lipids called mycolic acids. Oxygenation of mycolic acids generating methoxy- and ketomycolic acids enhances the pathogenic attributes of M. tuberculosis. Thus, the respective enzymes are of interest in the research on mycobacteria. The generation of methoxy- and ketomycolic acids proceeds through intermediary formation of hydroxymycolic acids. While the methyl transferase that generates methoxymycolic acids from hydroxymycolic acids is known, hydroxymycolic acids dehydrogenase that oxidizes hydroxymycolic acids to ketomycolic acids has been elusive. We found that hydroxymycolic acid dehydrogenase is encoded by the rv0132c gene and the enzyme utilizes F420, a deazaflavin coenzyme, as electron carrier, and accordingly we called it F420-dependent hydroxymycolic acid dehydrogenase. This is the first report on the involvement of F420 in the synthesis of a mycobacterial cell envelope. Also, F420-dependent hydroxymycolic acid dehydrogenase was inhibited by PA-824, and therefore, it is a previously unknown target for this new tuberculosis drug.
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- Endang Purwantini
- Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Departments of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America
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Collier MA, Gallovic MD, Peine KJ, Duong AD, Bachelder EM, Gunn JS, Schlesinger LS, Ainslie KM. Delivery of host cell-directed therapeutics for intracellular pathogen clearance. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 2013; 11:1225-35. [PMID: 24134600 DOI: 10.1586/14787210.2013.845524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Intracellular pathogens present a major health risk because of their innate ability to evade clearance. Their location within host cells and ability to react to the host environment by mutation or transcriptional changes often enables survival mechanisms to resist standard therapies. Host-directed drugs do not target the pathogen, minimizing the potential development of drug resistance; however, they can be difficult to deliver efficiently to intracellular sites. Vehicle delivery of host-mediated response drugs not only improves drug distribution and toxicity profiles, but can reduce the total amount of drug necessary to clear infection. In this article, we will review some host-directed drugs and current drug delivery techniques that can be used to efficiently clear intracellular infections.
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- Michael A Collier
- Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Rao M, Sood R, Malhotra S, Fatma T, Upadhyay DJ, Rattan A. In VitroBactericidal Activity of Oxazolidinone, RBx 8700 againstMycobacterium tuberculosisandMycobacterium avium complex. J Chemother 2013; 18:144-50. [PMID: 16736882 DOI: 10.1179/joc.2006.18.2.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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RBx 8700, an investigational oxazolidinone, has excellent activity against respiratory pathogens. We evaluated the in vitro minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and bactericidal activity of RBx 8700 against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) isolates. RBx 8700 had an MIC of 1 gLg/ml against M. tuberculosis isolates resistant to both isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RIF), whereas its MIC against M. tuberculosis isolates resistant to either INH or RIF was 0.5 microg/ml.
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- M Rao
- Infectious Diseases, New Drug Discovery Research, Ranbaxy Research Laboratories, Plot No. 20, Sector 18, Udyog Vihar Industrial Area, Gurgaon-122 001, India.
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Daisy P, Vijayalakshmi P, Selvaraj C, Singh SK, Saipriya K. Targeting Multidrug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis HtrA2 with Identical Chemical Entities of Fluoroquinolones. Indian J Pharm Sci 2013; 74:217-22. [PMID: 23440996 PMCID: PMC3574531 DOI: 10.4103/0250-474x.106063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2011] [Revised: 05/23/2012] [Accepted: 05/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Tuberculosis is a highly communicable and chronic respiratory disease caused by pathogenic bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The drug - resistant species of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are tough to cure due to its resistant activity toward potential drugs. Available inhibitors of tuberculosis include few antimicrobial fluoroquinolone agents like ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and moxifloxacin to treat resistant Mycobacterium strains. Literature study elucidates that macromolecular target namely, HtrA2 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis play a dual role of protease and chaperone. These two activities are dependent on temperature, with low temperatures promoting the chaperone function and high temperatures promoting serine protease activity. Under normal physiological conditions HtrA2 acts as a quality control factor and promotes cell survival. In the present investigation, we screened fluoroquinolone such as ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin and ofloxacin and their analogues based on better Docking score, absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion screening and Lipinski's rule of 5, to find out their efficiency on resistant strain through in silico study. From the results observed, the analogues are suggested to be potent inhibitors of HtrA2 with sufficient scope for further exploration.
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- P Daisy
- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics centre (BIF), Holy Cross College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli-620 002, India
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Arvind A, Kumar V, Saravanan P, Mohan CG. Homology modeling, molecular dynamics and inhibitor binding study on MurD ligase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Interdiscip Sci 2013; 4:223-38. [DOI: 10.1007/s12539-012-0133-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2011] [Revised: 03/21/2012] [Accepted: 07/06/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Marrapu VK, Chaturvedi V, Singh S, Singh S, Sinha S, Bhandari K. Novel aryloxy azolyl chalcones with potent activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Eur J Med Chem 2011; 46:4302-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2011.06.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2011] [Revised: 06/14/2011] [Accepted: 06/27/2011] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Judge V, Narasimhan B, Ahuja M, Sriram D, Yogeeswari P, De Clercq E, Pannecouque C, Balzarini J. Synthesis, antimycobacterial, antiviral, antimicrobial activities, and QSAR studies of isonicotinic acid-1-(substituted phenyl)-ethylidene/cycloheptylidene hydrazides. Med Chem Res 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s00044-011-9705-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Saquib M, Husain I, Sharma S, Yadav G, Singh VK, Sharma SK, Shah P, Siddiqi MI, Kumar B, Lal J, Jain GK, Srivastava BS, Srivastava R, Shaw AK. 2,3-Dideoxy hex-2-enopyranosid-4-uloses as promising new anti-tubercular agents: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation and SAR studies. Eur J Med Chem 2011; 46:2217-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2011.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2010] [Revised: 02/15/2011] [Accepted: 03/01/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Mitnick CD, McGee B, Peloquin CA. Tuberculosis pharmacotherapy: strategies to optimize patient care. Expert Opin Pharmacother 2009; 10:381-401. [PMID: 19191677 PMCID: PMC2674232 DOI: 10.1517/14656560802694564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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INTRODUCTION The treatment of tuberculosis (TB) is a mature discipline, with more than 60 years of clinical experience accrued across the globe. The requisite Multi-drug treatment of drug-susceptible TB, however, lasts 6 months and has never been optimized according to current standards. Multi-drug resistant TB and TB in individuals coinfected with HIV present additional treatment challenges. OBJECTIVE This article reviews the role that existing drugs and new compounds could have in shortening or improving treatment for TB. The key to treatment shortening seems to be sterilizing activity, or the ability of drugs to kill mycobacteria that persist after the initial days of multi-drug treatment. RESULTS Among existing anti-TB drugs, the rifamycins hold the greatest potential for shortening treatment and improving outcomes, in both HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected populations, without dramatic increases in toxicity. Clinical studies underway or being planned, are supported by in vitro , animal and human evidence of increased sterilizing activity--without significant increases in toxicity--at elevated daily doses. Fluoroquinolones also seem to have significant sterilizing activity. At present, at least two class members are being evaluated for treatment shortening with different combinations of first-line drugs. However, in light of apparent rapid selection for fluoroquinolone-resistant mutants, relative frequency of serious adverse events and a perceived need to 'reserve' fluoroquinolones for the treatment of drug-resistant TB, their exact role in TB treatment remains to be determined. Other possible improvements may come from inhaled delivery or split dosing (linezolid) of anti-TB drugs for which toxicity (ethionamide) or lack of absorption (aminoglycosides and polypeptides) precludes delivery of maximally effective, oral doses, once daily. New classes of drugs with novel mechanisms of action, nitroimidazopyrans and a diarylquinoline, among others, may soon provide opportunities for improving treatment of drug-resistant TB or shortening treatment of drug-susceptible TB. CONCLUSION More potential options for improved TB treatment currently exist than at any other time in the last 30 years. The challenge in TB pharmacotherapy is to devise well-tolerated, efficacious, short-duration regimens that can be used successfully against drug-resistant and drug-resistant TB in a heterogeneous population of patients.
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- Carole D Mitnick
- Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 643 Huntington Ave., 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Ghosh S, Tiwari P, Pandey S, Misra AK, Chaturvedi V, Gaikwad A, Bhatnagar S, Sinha S. Synthesis and evaluation of antitubercular activity of glycosyl thio- and sulfonyl acetamide derivatives. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2008; 18:4002-5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2008.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2008] [Revised: 05/08/2008] [Accepted: 06/03/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Papaioannou N, Cheon HS, Lian Y, Kishi Y. Product-regulation mechanisms for fatty acid biosynthesis catalyzed by Mycobacterium smegmatis FAS I. Chembiochem 2008; 8:1775-80. [PMID: 17893901 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200700380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Nikolaos Papaioannou
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Zheng J, Wei C, Leng W, Dong J, Li R, Li W, Wang J, Zhang Z, Jin Q. Membrane subproteomic analysis of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin. Proteomics 2008; 7:3919-31. [PMID: 17922514 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.200700342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine has been known for a long time to prevent tuberculosis (TB) worldwide since 1921. Nonetheless, we know little about BCG membrane proteome. In the present study, we utilized alkaline incubation and Triton X-114-based methods to enrich BCG membrane proteins and subsequently digested them using proteolytic enzyme. The recovered peptides were further separated by 2-D LC and identified by ESI-MS/MS. As a result, total 474 proteins were identified, including 78 integral membrane proteins (IMPs). Notably, 18 BCG IMPs were described for the first time in mycobacterium. Further analysis of the 78 IMPs indicated that the theoretical molecular mass distribution of them ranged from 8.06 to 167.86 kDa and pI scores ranged from 4.40 to 11.60. Functional classification revealed that a large proportion of the identified IMPs (67.9%, 53 out of 78) were involved in cell wall and cell processes functional group. In conclusion, here we reported a comprehensive profile of the BCG membrane subproteome. The present investigation may allow the identification of some valuable vaccine and drug target candidates and thus provide basement for future designing of preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic strategies against TB.
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- Jianhua Zheng
- College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China
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Saquib M, Gupta MK, Sagar R, Prabhakar YS, Shaw AK, Kumar R, Maulik PR, Gaikwad AN, Sinha S, Srivastava AK, Chaturvedi V, Srivastava R, Srivastava BS. C-3 Alkyl/Arylalkyl-2,3-dideoxy Hex-2-enopyranosides as Antitubercular Agents: Synthesis, Biological Evaluation, and QSAR Study. J Med Chem 2007; 50:2942-50. [PMID: 17542574 DOI: 10.1021/jm070110h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A series of C-3 alkyl and arylalkyl 2,3-dideoxy hex-2-enopyranoside derivatives were synthesized by Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction using enulosides 4, 5, and 6 and various aliphatic and aromatic aldehydes. The compounds were evaluated in vitro for the complete inhibition of growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. They exhibited moderate to good activity in the range of 25-1.56 mug/mL. Among these, 4d, 4h, 5c, and 4hr showed activity at minimum inhibitory concentrations, 3.12, 6.25, 1.56, and 1.56 mug/mL, respectively. These compounds were safe against cytotoxicity in VERO cell line and mouse macrophage cell line J 744A.1. A QSAR analysis by CP-MLR with alignment-free 3D-descriptors indicated the relevance of structure space comparable to the minimum energy conformation (from conformational analysis) of 5c to the activity. The study indicates that the compounds attaining the conformational space of 5c and reflecting some symmetry, minimum eccentricity, and closely placed geometric and electronegativity centers therein are favorable for activity.
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- Mohammad Saquib
- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division, Division of Molecular and Structural Biology, Drug Target Discovery and Development Division and Division of Microbiology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow-226001, India
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Owen DJ, Davis CB, Hartnell RD, Madge PD, Thomson RJ, Chong AKJ, Coppel RL, von Itzstein M. Synthesis and evaluation of galactofuranosyl N,N-dialkyl sulfenamides and sulfonamides as antimycobacterial agents. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2007; 17:2274-7. [PMID: 17303419 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2007.01.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2006] [Revised: 01/13/2007] [Accepted: 01/18/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The recent emergence of clinically oppressive superbugs, some with resistance to nearly all frontline drug therapies, has challenged our ability to combat such infectious organisms as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). Our medicinal chemistry program targeting this pathogen has identified several potent galactofuranose-based in vitro inhibitors of mycobacterial growth. The most potent compound, the Galf N,N-didecyl sulfenamide 8d, displayed anti-mycobacterial activity (MIC) of 1 microg/mL in a cell based assay against a representative strain of Mycobacterium smegmatis.
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- David J Owen
- Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus), PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, Queensland 9726, Australia
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Granulomatous lung diseases, such as sarcoidosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, Wegener's granulomatosis, and chronic beryllium disease, along with granulomatous diseases of known infectious etiologies, such as tuberculosis, are major causes of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Clinical manifestations of these diseases are highly heterogeneous, and the determinants of disease susceptibility and clinical course (e.g., resolution vs. chronic, progressive fibrosis) are largely unknown. The underlying pathogenic mechanisms of these diseases also remain poorly understood. Within this context, these diseases have been approached using genomic and proteomic technologies to allow us to identify patterns of gene/protein expression that track with clinical disease or to identify new pathways involved in disease pathogenesis. The results from these initial studies highlight the potential for these "-omics" approaches to reveal novel insights into the pathogenesis of granulomatous lung disease and provide new tools to improve diagnosis, clinical classification, course prediction, and response to therapy. Realizing this potential will require collaboration among multidisciplinary groups with expertise in the respective technologies, bioinformatics, and clinical medicine for these complex diseases.
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- Edward S Chen
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Singh U, Sarkar D. Development of a simple high-throughput screening protocol based on biosynthetic activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis glutamine synthetase for the identification of novel Inhibitors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 11:1035-42. [PMID: 16973920 DOI: 10.1177/1087057106292798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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A high-throughput screening protocol has been developed for Mycobacterium tuberculosis glutamine synthetase by quantitative estimation of inorganic phosphate. The K(m) values determined at pH 6.8 are 22 mM for L-glutamic acid, 0.75 mM for NH(4)Cl, 3.25 mM for MgCl(2), and 2.5 mM for adenosine triphosphate. The K(m) value for glutamine is affected significantly by the increase in pH of assay buffer. At the saturating level of the substrate, the enzyme activity at pH 6.8 and 25 degrees C is found to be linear up to 3 h. The reduction of enzyme activity is negligible even in presence of 10% DMSO. The Z' factor and signal-to-noise ratio are found to be 0.75 and 6.18, respectively, when the enzyme is used at 62.5 microg/ml concentration. The IC(50) values obtained at pH 6.8 for both L-methionine S-sulfoximine and DL-phosphothriacin are 500 microM and 30 microM, respectively, which is lowest compared to the values obtained at other pH levels. The Beckman Coulter high-throughput screening platform was found to take 5 h 9 min to complete the screening of 60 plates. For each assay plate, a replica plate is used to normalize the data. Screening of 1164 natural product fractions/extracts and synthetic molecules from an in-house library was able to identify 12 samples as confirmed hits. Altogether, the validation data from screening of a small set of an in-house library coupled with Z' and signal-to-noise values indicate that the protocol is robust for high-throughput screening of a diverse chemical library.
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- Upasana Singh
- Combi Chem-Bio Resource Center, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India
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Prakash O, Ghosh I. Developing an antituberculosis compounds database and data mining in the search of a motif responsible for the activity of a diverse class of antituberculosis agents. J Chem Inf Model 2006; 46:17-23. [PMID: 16426035 DOI: 10.1021/ci050115s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A novel data mining procedure to look for new antitubercular agents and targets as well as to find a minimum common bioactive substructure (MCBS), has been reported here. The methodology extracts MCBS, both across the diverse chemical classes and within the particular chemical class, known to be present in the various marketed drugs alongside antimycobacterial compounds with known MICs. For this purpose a small in-house database of compounds has been created, for which MICs against Mycobacterium are known. The compounds have been collected from literature available on the synthetic compounds, having known MICs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. An elaborate HQSAR (Hologram QSAR) study has been attempted to extract active fragment from a diverse class of compounds, in combination with the clustering technique to select a homogeneous group of compounds having good a profile toward the activity. The 2D pharmacophore (the 2D fragments extracted from HQSAR) has been validated searching the database. It has been found further that this validated 2D pharmacophore could be used for searching the orphan target in Mycobacterium effectively.
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- Om Prakash
- Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, India
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Dixit PP, Patil VJ, Nair PS, Jain S, Sinha N, Arora SK. Synthesis of 1-[3-(4-benzotriazol-1/2-yl-3-fluoro-phenyl)-2-oxo-oxazolidin-5-ylmethyl]-3-substituted-thiourea derivatives as antituberculosis agents. Eur J Med Chem 2006; 41:423-8. [PMID: 16494970 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2005.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2005] [Revised: 10/07/2005] [Accepted: 12/01/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In continuation of our research program for new antituberculosis drugs, we have designed, synthesized and evaluated antimycobacterial activity of new series of 1-[3-(4-benzotriazol-1/2-yl-3-fluoro-phenyl)-2-oxo-oxazolidin-5-ylmethyl]-3-substituted-thiourea derivatives against different Mycobacterium species i.e. M. tuberculosis, M. avium and M. intracellulare in an agar dilution method. Compound 17 exhibited excellent antimycobacterial activity (in vitro) against drug sensitive and resistant clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis. Its MIC value is equivalent to linezolid and superior to isoniazid against all these strains.
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- Prasad P Dixit
- Medicinal Chemistry Division, New Chemical Entity Research, Lupin Research Park, Village Nande, Taluka Mulshi, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Sriram D, Bal TR, Yogeeswari P, Radha DR, Nagaraja V. Evaluation of antimycobacterial and DNA gyrase inhibition of fluoroquinolone derivatives. J GEN APPL MICROBIOL 2006; 52:195-200. [PMID: 17116967 DOI: 10.2323/jgam.52.195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The antimycobacterial activity (both in vitro and in vivo) and DNA gyrase inhibition of newly synthesized fluoroquinolone derivatives were tested against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H(37)Rv and Mycobacterium smegmatis, respectively. Among the synthesized compounds, compound F11 was found to exhibit the most potent in vitro antimycobacterial activity with a MIC value of 0.78 microg/ml, and a selectivity index of more than 80 while not being cytotoxic to the Vero cell line up to 62.5 microg/ml. When evaluated for in vivo antimycobacterial activity, compound F11 demonstrated a paramount decrease of bacterial load in lung and spleen tissues compared to the control and better than the standard drug ciprofloxacin.
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- Dharmarajan Sriram
- Medicinal Chemistry Research Laboratory, Pharmacy Group, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
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Anishetty S, Pulimi M, Pennathur G. Potential drug targets in Mycobacterium tuberculosis through metabolic pathway analysis. Comput Biol Chem 2005; 29:368-78. [PMID: 16213791 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2005.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2005] [Revised: 07/28/2005] [Accepted: 07/28/2005] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The emergence of multidrug resistant varieties of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has led to a search for novel drug targets. We have performed an insilico comparative analysis of metabolic pathways of the host Homo sapiens and the pathogen M. tuberculosis. Enzymes from the biochemical pathways of M. tuberculosis from the KEGG metabolic pathway database were compared with proteins from the host H. sapiens, by performing a BLASTp search against the non-redundant database restricted to the H. sapiens subset. The e-value threshold cutoff was set to 0.005. Enzymes, which do not show similarity to any of the host proteins, below this threshold, were filtered out as potential drug targets. We have identified six pathways unique to the pathogen M. tuberculosis when compared to the host H. sapiens. Potential drug targets from these pathways could be useful for the discovery of broad spectrum drugs. Potential drug targets were also identified from pathways related to lipid metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, amino acid metabolism, energy metabolism, vitamin and cofactor biosynthetic pathways and nucleotide metabolism. Of the 185 distinct targets identified from these pathways, many are in various stages of progress at the TB Structural Genomics Consortium. However, 67 of our targets are new and can be considered for rational drug design. As a case study, we have built a homology model of one of the potential drug targets MurD ligase using WHAT IF software. The model could be further explored for insilico docking studies with suitable inhibitors. The study was successful in listing out potential drug targets from the M. tuberculosis proteome involved in vital aspects of the pathogen's metabolism, persistence, virulence and cell wall biosynthesis. This systematic evaluation of metabolic pathways of host and pathogen through reliable and conventional bioinformatic methods can be extended to other pathogens of clinical interest.
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Singh U, Panchanadikar V, Sarkar D. Development of a Simple Assay Protocol for High-Throughput Screening of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Glutamine Synthetase for the Identification of Novel Inhibitors. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 10:725-9. [PMID: 16129778 DOI: 10.1177/1087057105278013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis glutamine synthetase (GS) is an essential enzyme involved in the pathogenicity of the organism. The screening of a compound library using a robust high-throughput screening (HTS) assay is currently thought to be the most efficient way of getting lead molecules, which are potent inhibitors for this enzyme. The authors have purified the enzyme to a >90% level from the recombinant Escherichia coli strain YMC21E, and it was used for partial characterization as well as standardization experiments. The results indicated that the Kmof the enzyme for L-glutamine and hydroxylamine were 60 mM and 8.3 mM, respectively. The Km for ADP, arsenate, and Mn2+ were 2 [.proportional]M, 5 [.proportional]M, and 25 [.proportional]M, respectively. When the components were adjusted according to their Km values, the activity remained constant for at least 3 h at both 25° C and 37° C. The Z′ factor determined in microplate format indicated robustness of the assay. When the signal/noise ratios were determined for different assay volumes, it was observed that the 200-[.proportional]l volume was found to be optimum. The DMSO tolerance of the enzyme was checked up to 10%, with minimal inhibition. The IC50 value determined for L-methionine S-sulfoximine on the enzyme activity was 3 mM. Approximately 18,000 small molecules could be screened per day using this protocol by a Beckman Coulter HTS setup.
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- Upasana Singh
- Combichem Bioresource Center, National Chemical Laboratory, Dr. Homi Bhabha Rd., Pune 411008, India
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Hearn MJ, Webster ER, Cynamon MH. Preparation and properties of antitubercular 1-piperidino-3-arylthioureas. J Heterocycl Chem 2005. [DOI: 10.1002/jhet.5570420632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Bellinzoni M, Buroni S, Pasca MR, Guglierame P, Arcesi F, De Rossi E, Riccardi G. Glutamine amidotransferase activity of NAD+ synthetase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis depends on an amino-terminal nitrilase domain. Res Microbiol 2005; 156:173-7. [PMID: 15748981 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2004.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2004] [Accepted: 08/23/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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NAD(+) synthetase (NadE; E.C. 6.3.5.1) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilizes both glutamine and ammonia to catalyze NAD(+) production, in contrast to the corresponding NH(3)-dependent enzymes from other prokaryotes. Here we report the site-directed mutagenesis of amino acids located in the N-terminal domain and predicted to be essential for glutamine hydrolysis. The residues forming the putative catalytic triad (Cys176, Glu52 and Lys121) were replaced by alanine; the mutated enzymes were expressed in the Escherichia coli Origami (DE3) strain and purified. The three mutants completely lost their glutamine-dependent activity, clearly indicating that Cys176, Glu52 and Lys121 are crucial for this activity. In contrast, the C176A and E52A variants, respectively, retained 90 and 30% of the original NH(3)-dependent specific activity, while the K121A mutant lost this activity. The results show that glutamine-amidotransferase activity is mediated by an N-terminal domain belonging to the superfamily of nitrilases. This domain, a new type of glutamine amide transfer (GAT) domain, is the first to be characterized in bacterial NAD(+) synthetases.
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- Marco Bellinzoni
- Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
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Mahapatra S, Scherman H, Brennan PJ, Crick DC. N Glycolylation of the nucleotide precursors of peptidoglycan biosynthesis of Mycobacterium spp. is altered by drug treatment. J Bacteriol 2005; 187:2341-7. [PMID: 15774877 PMCID: PMC1065221 DOI: 10.1128/jb.187.7.2341-2347.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The peptidoglycan of Mycobacterium spp. reportedly has some unique features, including the occurrence of N-glycolylmuramic rather than N-acetylmuramic acid. However, very little is known of the actual biosynthesis of mycobacterial peptidoglycan, including the extent and origin of N glycolylation. In the present work, we have isolated and analyzed muramic acid residues located in peptidoglycan and UDP-linked precursors of peptidoglycan from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis. The muramic acid residues isolated from the mature peptidoglycan of both species were shown to be a mixture of the N-acetyl and N-glycolyl derivatives, not solely the N-glycolylated product as generally reported. The isolated UDP-linked N-acylmuramyl-pentapeptide precursor molecules also contain a mixture of N-acetyl and N-glycolyl muramyl residues in apparent contrast to previous observations in which the precursors isolated after treatment with d-cycloserine consisted entirely of N-glycolyl muropeptides. However, nucleotide-linked peptidoglycan precursors isolated from M. tuberculosis treated with d-cycloserine contained only N-glycolylmuramyl-tripeptide precursors, whereas those from similarly treated M. smegmatis consisted of a mixture of N-glycolylated and N-acetylated residues. The full pentapeptide intermediate, isolated following vancomycin treatment of M. smegmatis, consisted of the N-glycolyl derivative only, whereas the corresponding M. tuberculosis intermediate was a mixture of both the N-glycolyl and N-acetyl products. Thus, treatment with vancomycin and d-cylcoserine not only caused an accumulation of nucleotide-linked intermediate compounds but also altered their glycolylation status, possibly by altering the normal equilibrium maintained by de novo biosynthesis and peptidoglycan recycling.
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- Sebabrata Mahapatra
- Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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Koul A, Herget T, Klebl B, Ullrich A. Interplay between mycobacteria and host signalling pathways. Nat Rev Microbiol 2005; 2:189-202. [PMID: 15083155 DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro840] [Citation(s) in RCA: 275] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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- Anil Koul
- Axxima Pharmaceuticals AG, Max-Lebsche-Platz 32, 81377 Munich, Germany.
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Gupta MK, Sagar R, Shaw AK, Prabhakar YS. CP-MLR directed QSAR studies on the antimycobacterial activity of functionalized alkenols—topological descriptors in modeling the activity. Bioorg Med Chem 2005; 13:343-51. [PMID: 15598557 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2004.10.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2004] [Revised: 08/18/2004] [Accepted: 10/09/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The antimycobacterial activity of nitro/acetamido alkenol derivatives and chloro/amino alkenol derivatives has been analyzed through combinatorial protocol in multiple linear regression (CP-MLR) using different topological descriptors obtained from Dragon software. Among the topological descriptor classes considered in the study, the activity is correlated with simple topological descriptors (TOPO) and more complex 2D autocorrelation descriptors (2DAUTO). In model building the descriptors from other classes, that is, empirical, constitutional, molecular walk counts, modified Burden eigenvalues, and Galvez topological charge indices have made secondary contribution in association with TOPO and/or 2DAUTO classes. The structure-activity correlations obtained with the TOPO descriptors suggest that less branched and saturated structural templates would be better for the activity. For both the series of compounds, in 2DAUTO the activity has been correlated to the descriptors having mass, volume and/or polarizability as weighting component. In these two series of compounds, however, the regression coefficients of the descriptors have opposite arithmetic signs with respect to one another. Outwardly these two series of compounds appear very similar. But in terms of activity they belong to different segments of descriptor-activity profiles. This difference in the activity of these two series of compounds may be mainly due to the spacing difference between the C1 (also C6) substituents and rest of the functional groups in them.
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- Manish K Gupta
- Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226 001(UP), India
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Barry CE, Duncan K. Tuberculosis – strategies towards anti-infectives for a chronic disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ddstr.2004.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Bellinzoni M, Riccardi G. Techniques and applications: The heterologous expression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes is an uphill road. Trends Microbiol 2003; 11:351-8. [PMID: 12915092 DOI: 10.1016/s0966-842x(03)00180-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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- Marco Bellinzoni
- Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, via Ferrata, 1, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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In the past 30 years, more than 30 new aetiological agents of infectious disease have been identified. Some of these are responsible for entirely novel and life-threatening disorders, such as AIDS, Ebola fever, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and Nipah virus encephalitis. During the same period, some longstanding infectious diseases (such as tuberculosis) have became resurgent, as a result of a combination of complacency, increased travel and social dislocation, and also increasing drug resistance. This review looks at some of the key unmet needs in this therapeutic area and discusses strategies to address them.
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- Noel J C Snell
- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, Dovehouse Street, SW3 6LY, London, UK.
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