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Cao F, Kinthada R, Boehm T, D' Cunha N, Leus IV, Orth C, Zgurskaya HI, Walker JK. Identification and structure-activity relationships for a series of N, N-disubstituted 2-aminobenzothiazoles as potent inhibitors of S. aureus. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2023; 89:129301. [PMID: 37094726 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2023.129301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
Abstract
An internal collection of commercial and synthetically derived small molecule compounds was screened against several drug-resistant bacterial pathogens. Compound 1, a known N, N-disubstituted 2-aminobenzothiazole, was found to be a potent inhibitor of Staphylococcus aureus and several associated clinically relevant strains of methicillin-resistant S. aureus suggesting a possible novel mechanism of inhibition. It failed to show activity in any of the Gram-negative pathogens it was tested in. Evaluation in Escherichia coli BW25113 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, as well as in their respective hyperporinated and efflux pump-deletion mutants revealed that activity in Gram-negative bacteria is diminished because this benzothiazole scaffold is a substrate for bacterial efflux pumps. Several analogs of 1 were synthesized to generate basic structure-activity relationships for the scaffold which highlighted that the N-propyl imidazole moiety was critical for the observed antibacterial activity.
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Affiliation(s)
- Feng Cao
- John Cochran Division, Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 63106, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, United States
| | - Terri Boehm
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, United States
| | - Napoleon D' Cunha
- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, United States
| | - Inga V Leus
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73072, United States
| | - Cari Orth
- John Cochran Division, Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 63106, United States
| | - Helen I Zgurskaya
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73072, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, United States.
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