17145-91-4Relevant articles and documents
Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Pyrimido[4,5-b]indole Derivatives against Gram-Negative Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens
Kong, Qidi,Pan, Wei,Xu, Heng,Xue, Yaru,Guo, Bin,Meng, Xin,Luo, Cheng,Wang, Ting,Zhang, Shuhua,Yang, Yushe
supporting information, p. 8644 - 8665 (2021/06/28)
Due to the poor permeability across Gram-negative bacterial membranes and the troublesome bacterial efflux mechanism, only a few GyrB/ParE inhibitors with potent activity against Gram-negative pathogens have been reported. Among them, pyrimido[4,5-b]indol
Rational Design, Synthesis, and Preliminary Structure-Activity Relationships of α-Substituted-2-Phenylcyclopropane Carboxylic Acids as Inhibitors of Salmonella typhimurium O-Acetylserine Sulfhydrylase
Pieroni, Marco,Annunziato, Giannamaria,Beato, Claudia,Wouters, Randy,Benoni, Roberto,Campanini, Barbara,Pertinhez, Thelma A.,Bettati, Stefano,Mozzarelli, Andrea,Costantino, Gabriele
, p. 2567 - 2578 (2016/04/10)
Cysteine is a building block for several biomolecules that are crucial for living organisms. The last step of cysteine biosynthesis is catalyzed by O-acetylserine sulfydrylase (OASS), a highly conserved pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme, present in different isoforms in bacteria, plants, and nematodes, but absent in mammals. Beside the biosynthesis of cysteine, OASS exerts a series of moonlighting activities in bacteria, such as transcriptional regulation, contact-dependent growth inhibition, swarming motility, and induction of antibiotic resistance. Therefore, the discovery of molecules capable of inhibiting OASS would be a valuable tool to unravel how this protein affects the physiology of unicellular organisms. As a continuation of our efforts toward the synthesis of OASS inhibitors, in this work we have used a combination of computational and spectroscopic approaches to rationally design, synthesize, and test a series of substituted 2-phenylcyclopropane carboxylic acids that bind to the two S. typhymurium OASS isoforms at nanomolar concentrations.
Discovery of New Potential Anti-Infective Compounds Based on Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors by Rational Target-Focused Repurposing Approaches
Annunziato, Giannamaria,Angeli, Andrea,D'Alba, Francesca,Bruno, Agostino,Pieroni, Marco,Vullo, Daniela,De Luca, Viviana,Capasso, Clemente,Supuran, Claudiu T.,Costantino, Gabriele
, p. 1904 - 1914 (2016/10/12)
In academia, compound recycling represents an alternative drug discovery strategy to identify new pharmaceutical targets from a library of chemical compounds available in house. Herein we report the application of a rational target-based drug-repurposing approach to find diverse applications for our in-house collection of compounds. The carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) metalloenzyme superfamily was identified as a potential target of our compounds. The combination of a thoroughly validated docking screening protocol, together with in vitro assays against various CA families and isoforms, allowed us to identify two unprecedented chemotypes as CA inhibitors. The identified compounds have the capacity to preferentially bind pathogenic (bacterial/protozoan) CAs over human isoforms and represent excellent hits for further optimization in hit-to-lead campaigns.
