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Compounds and methods for treating mammalian gastrointestinal microbial infections
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, (2018/11/30)
Described herein are compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, which are useful as inhibitors of IMPDH. In certain embodiments, a compound of the invention selectively inhibits a parasitic IMPDH versus a host IMPDH. Further, the invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more compounds of the invention. The invention also relates to methods of treating various parasitic and bacterial infections in mammals. Moreover, the compounds may be used alone or in combination with other therapeutic or prophylactic agents, such as anti-virals, anti-inflammatory agents, antimicrobials and immunosuppressants.
Structure-activity relationship study of selective benzimidazole-based inhibitors of Cryptosporidium parvum IMPDH
Kirubakaran, Sivapriya,Gorla, Suresh Kumar,Sharling, Lisa,Zhang, Minjia,Liu, Xiaoping,Ray, Soumya S.,MacPherson, Iain S.,Striepen, Boris,Hedstrom, Lizbeth,Cuny, Gregory D.
, p. 1985 - 1988 (2012/04/05)
Cryptosporidium parasites are important waterborne pathogens of both humans and animals. The Cryptosporidium parvum and Cryptosporidium hominis genomes indicate that the only route to guanine nucleotides is via inosine 5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH). Thus the inhibition of the parasite IMPDH presents a potential strategy for treating Cryptosporidium infections. A selective benzimidazole-based inhibitor of C. parvum IMPDH (CpIMPDH) was previously identified in a high throughput screen. Here we report a structure-activity relationship study of benzimidazole-based compounds that resulted in potent and selective inhibitors of CpIMPDH. Several compounds display potent antiparasitic activity in vitro.
