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Structure-Activity Relationship Studies Reveal New Astemizole Analogues Active against Plasmodium falciparum in Vitro
Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie,Chibale, Kelly,Coertzen, Dina,Ferger, Richard,Kumar, Malkeet,Mambwe, Dickson,Njoroge, Mathew,Reader, Janette,Taylor, Dale,Van Der Watt, Mari?tte
supporting information, p. 1333 - 1341 (2021/08/24)
In the context of drug repositioning and expanding the existing structure-activity relationship around astemizole (AST), a new series of analogues were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for their antiplasmodium activity. Among 46 analogues tested, compounds 21, 30, and 33 displayed high activities against asexual blood stage parasites (PfNF54 IC50 = 0.025-0.043 μM), whereas amide compound 46 additionally showed activity against late-stage gametocytes (stage IV/V; PfLG IC50 = 0.6 ± 0.1 μM) and 860-fold higher selectivity over hERG (46, SI = 43) compared to AST. Several analogues displaying high solubility (Sol > 100 μM) and low cytoxicity in the Chinese hamster ovary (SI > 148) cell line have also been identified.
Multistage Antiplasmodium Activity of Astemizole Analogues and Inhibition of Hemozoin Formation as a Contributor to Their Mode of Action
Kumar, Malkeet,Okombo, John,Mambwe, Dickson,Taylor, Dale,Lawrence, Nina,Reader, Janette,Van Der Watt, Mari?tte,Fontinha, Diana,Sanches-Vaz, Margarida,Bezuidenhout, Belinda C.,Lauterbach, Sonja B.,Liebenberg, Dale,Birkholtz, Lyn-Marie,Coetzer, Theresa L.,Prudêncio, Miguel,Egan, Timothy J.,Wittlin, Sergio,Chibale, Kelly
, p. 303 - 315 (2019/01/15)
A drug repositioning approach was leveraged to derivatize astemizole (AST), an antihistamine drug whose antimalarial activity was previously identified in a high-throughput screen. The multistage activity potential against the Plasmodium parasite's life cycle of the subsequent analogues was examined by evaluating against the parasite asexual blood, liver, and sexual gametocytic stages. In addition, the previously reported contribution of heme detoxification to the compound's mode of action was interrogated. Ten of the 17 derivatives showed half-maximal inhibitory concentrations (IC50s) of 50 100). Screening of AST and its analogues against gametocytes revealed their moderate activity (IC50: 1-5 μM) against late stage P. falciparum gametocytes, while the evaluation of activity against P. berghei liver stages identified one compound (3) with 3-fold greater activity than the parent AST compound. Mechanistic studies showed a strong correlation between in vitro inhibition of β-hematin formation by the AST derivatives and their antiplasmodium IC50s. Analyses of intracellular inhibition of hemozoin formation within the parasite further yielded signatures attributable to a possible perturbation of the heme detoxification machinery.
A benzimidazole hERG potassium ion channel of small molecule fluorescent probe and its preparation method and application
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Paragraph 0032; 0034; 0038; 0039; 0055, (2017/08/25)
The invention relates to a benzimidazole hERG potassium ion channel small-molecular fluorescent probe and a preparation method and applications thereof; the fluorescent probe has the structural general formula represented by the formula (I), wherein in the formula, R1 is hydroxyl, halogen, alkyl or alkoxy monosubstituent or polysubstituent, R2 is fluorophore, n is 1-6, particularly, R1 is p-halogen, and R2 is coumarin, naphthalene diimide, NBD, Cy5 or fluorescein isothiocyanate fluorophore. The invention discloses the applications of the probe in marking of hERG potassium ion channels and high-expression tumor cells or tissues, high-throughput screening of hERG potassium ion channel inhibitors, evaluation of new drug cardiotoxicity, use as a probe for identification of the hERG potassium ion channels and studies on hERG potassium ion channel physiological, pathological and related diseases.
