- Synthesis and antibacterial evaluation of (E)-1-(1H-indol-3-yl) ethanone O-benzyl oxime derivatives against MRSA and VRSA strains
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Infections caused due to multidrug resistant organisms have emerged as a constant menace to human health. Even though numerous antibiotics are currently available for treating infectious diseases, a great number of bacterial strains have acquired resistance to many of them. Among these, infections caused due to Staphylococcus aureus are predominant in adult and paediatric population. Indole is a prominent chemical scaffold found in many pharmacologically active natural products and synthetic drugs. A number of oxime ether containing compounds have attracted attention of researchers owing to their interesting biological properties. Current work details the synthesis of indole containing oxime ether derivatives and their evaluation for antimicrobial activity against a panel of bacterial and mycobacterial strains. Synthesized compounds demonstrated good to moderate activity against drug-resistant S. aureus including resistant to vancomycin. Among all, compound 5h was found to possess potent activity against susceptible as well as MRSA and VRSA strains of S. aureus with MIC of 1 μg/mL and 2–4 μg/mL respectively. In addition, compound 5h was found to be non-toxic to Vero cells and exhibited good selectivity index of >40. Further, 5h, E-9a and E-9b possessed good biofilm inhibition against S. aureus. With these assuring biological properties, synthesized compounds could be potential prospective antimicrobial agents.
- Akunuri, Ravikumar,Veerareddy, Vaishnavi,Kaul, Grace,Akhir, Abdul,Unnissa, Tanveer,Parupalli, Ramulu,Madhavi,Chopra, Sidharth,Nanduri, Srinivas
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- Multifunctional small molecules as potential anti-alzheimer’s disease agents
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a severe multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a progressive loss of neurons in the brain. Despite research efforts, the pathogenesis and mechanism of AD progression are not yet completely understood. There are only a few symptomatic drugs approved for the treatment of AD. The multifactorial character of AD suggests that it is important to develop molecules able to target the numerous pathological mechanisms associated with the disease. Thus, in the context of the worldwide recognized interest of multifunctional ligand therapy, we report herein the synthesis, characterization, physicochemical and biological evaluation of a set of five (1a–e) new ferulic acid-based hybrid compounds, namely feroyl-benzyloxyamidic derivatives enclosing different substituent groups, as potential anti-Alzheimer’s disease agents. These hybrids can keep both the radical scavenging activity and metal chelation capacity of the naturally occurring ferulic acid scaffold, presenting also good/mild capacity for inhibition of self-Aβ aggregation and fairly good inhibition of Cu-induced Aβ aggregation. The predicted pharmacokinetic properties point towards good absorption, comparable to known oral drugs.
- Bargagna, Beatrice,Camodeca, Caterina,Chaves, Sílvia,Ciccone, Lidia,Nencetti, Susanna,Orlandini, Elisabetta,Santos, M. Amélia
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- Ultrasound accelerated synthesis of: O-alkylated hydroximides under solvent- A nd metal-free conditions
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A novel, sustainable, environmentally friendly, high substrate scope, efficient, solvent-free and metal catalyst-free method for the cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) reaction between N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) and benzyl/ether compounds is described. This coupling reaction proceeds through ultrasound acceleration. Compared to conventional heating conditions, the use of ultrasound techniques not only improves the reaction efficiency and enhances the reaction rate but also minimizes the side reactions.
- Jiang, Hongmei,Tang, Xiaoyue,Liu, Sihan,Wang, Lian,Shen, Haicheng,Yang, Jiankui,Wang, Huixian,Gui, Qing-Wen
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p. 10223 - 10227
(2019/12/26)
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- PRODRUG INHIBITORS OF INDOLEAMINE 2,3-DIOXYGENASE 1 (IDO1)
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Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-1 prodrugs and methods of use thereof are disclosed.
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(2019/04/09)
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- O-benzyl-N-(9-acridinyl)hydroxylamines
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A series of O-benzyl-N-(9-acridinyl)hydroxylamines was prepared, isolated, and evaluated for biological activity using both thermal denaturation and MTT assays. Changes in the thermal denaturation temperature of genomic calf-thymus DNA ranged from +6.6 °C to +20.2 °C. MTT assays on SNB-19 glioblastoma cells provided biological activity that ranged from 17.4 μM to 33.2 μM. Both evaluation methods of biological activity indicate that substitution of the benzyl group by either electron-withdrawing or electron-donating groups provides a measureable benefit in these assays. The two assays agreed on the magnitude of the interaction for each substitution pattern.
- Johnson, Alyssa L.,Duncan, Nathan,Mosher, Michael D.
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p. 139 - 148
(2018/06/27)
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- O-alkylhydroxylamines as rationally-designed mechanism-based inhibitors of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-1
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Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-1 (IDO1) is a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of cancer, chronic viral infections, and other diseases characterized by pathological immune suppression. Recently important advances have been made in understanding IDO1's catalytic mechanism. Although much remains to be discovered, there is strong evidence that the mechanism proceeds through a heme-iron bound alkylperoxy transition or intermediate state. Accordingly, we explored stable structural mimics of the alkylperoxy species and provide evidence that such structures do mimic the alkylperoxy transition or intermediate state. We discovered that O-benzylhydroxylamine, a commercially available compound, is a potent sub-micromolar inhibitor of IDO1. Structure-activity studies of over forty derivatives of O-benzylhydroxylamine led to further improvement in inhibitor potency, particularly with the addition of halogen atoms to the meta position of the aromatic ring. The most potent derivatives and the lead, O-benzylhydroxylamine, have high ligand efficiency values, which are considered an important criterion for successful drug development. Notably, two of the most potent compounds demonstrated nanomolar-level cell-based potency and limited toxicity. The combination of the simplicity of the structures of these compounds and their excellent cellular activity makes them quite attractive for biological exploration of IDO1 function and antitumor therapeutic applications.
- Malachowski, William P.,Winters, Maria,DuHadaway, James B.,Lewis-Ballester, Ariel,Badir, Shorouk,Wai, Jenny,Rahman, Maisha,Sheikh, Eesha,LaLonde, Judith M.,Yeh, Syun-Ru,Prendergast, George C.,Muller, Alexander J.
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p. 564 - 576
(2016/01/09)
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- NOVEL VASCULAR LEAKAGEAGE INHIBITOR
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The present disclosure relates to a novel vascular leakage inhibitor. The novel vascular leakage inhibitor of the present invention inhibits the apoptosis of vascular endothelial cells, inhibits the formation of actin stress fibers induced by VEGF, and enhances the cortical actin ring structure, thereby inhibiting vascular leakage. Accordingly, the vascular leakage inhibitor of the present invention can prevent or treat various diseases caused by vascular leakage. Since the vascular leakage inhibitor of the present invention is synthesized from commercially available or easily synthesizable pregnenolones, it has remarkably superior feasibility of commercial synthesis.
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- Design, synthesis and antifungal activities of novel pyrrole alkaloid analogs
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A series of novel analogs of pyrrole alkaloid were designed and synthesized by a facile method and their structures were characterized by 1H NMR, 13C NMR and high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS). The structure of compound 2a was identified by 2D NMR including heteronuclear multiple-quantum coherence (HMQC), heteronuclear multiple-bond correlation (HMBC) and H-H correlation spectrometry (H-H COSY) spectra. Their antifungal activities against five fungi were evaluated, and the results indicated that some of the title compounds showed moderate fungicidal activities in vitro against Alternaria solani, Cercospora arachidicola, Fusarium omysporum, Gibberella zeae and Physalospora piricola at the dosage of 50 μg mL -1. Compound 2a and 3a exhibited good activities against P. piricola at low dosage.
- Wang, Ming-Zhong,Xu, Han,Liu, Tuan-Wei,Feng, Qi,Yu, Shu-Jing,Wang, Su-Hua,Li, Zheng-Ming
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p. 1463 - 1472
(2011/05/04)
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