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2-aminobenzimidazoles for leishmaniasis: From initial hit discovery to in vivo profiling
Ferreira, Rafael Augusto Alves,Junior, Celso de Oliveira Rezende,Martinez, Pablo David Grigol,Koovits, Paul John,Soares, Bruna Miranda,Ferreira, Leonardo L. G.,Michelan-Duarte, Simone,Chelucci, Rafael Consolin,Andricopulo, Adriano D.,Galuppo, Mariana K.,Uliana, Silvia R. B.,Matheeussen, An,Caljon, Guy,Maes, Louis,Campbell, Simon,Kratz, Jadel M.,Mowbray, Charles E.,Dias, Luiz Carlos
, (2021/03/24)
Leishmaniasis is a major infectious disease with hundreds of thousands of new cases and over 20,000 deaths each year. The current drugs to treat this life-threatening infection have several drawbacks such as toxicity and long treatment regimens. A library of 1.8 million compounds, from which the hits reported here are publicly available, was screened against Leishmania infantum as part of an optimization program; a compound was found with a 2-aminobenzimidazole functionality presenting moderate potency, low metabolic stability and high lipophilicity. Several rounds of synthesis were performed to incorporate chemical groups capable of reducing lipophilicity and clearance, leading to the identification of compounds that are active against different parasite strains and have improved in vitro proper-ties. As a result of this optimization program, a group of compounds was further tested in anticipation of in vivo evaluation. In vivo tests were carried out with compounds 29 (L. infantum IC50: 4.1 μM) and 39 (L. infantum IC50: 0.5 μM) in an acute L. infantum VL mouse model, which showed problems of poor exposure and lack of efficacy, despite the good in vitro potency.
Structure-activity relationship studies of antiplasmodial cyclometallated ruthenium(II), rhodium(III) and iridium(III) complexes of 2-phenylbenzimidazoles
Rylands, Laa-iqa,Welsh, Athi,Maepa, Keletso,Stringer, Tameryn,Taylor, Dale,Chibale, Kelly,Smith, Gregory S.
, p. 11 - 21 (2018/10/23)
Benzimidazoles, such as albendazole, thiabendazole and omeprazole have antiplasmodial activity against Plasmodium falciparum and are widely used as scaffolds for metal-based drug research. Incorporating substituents with various lipophilic and electronic
Novel benzimidazolyl tetrahydroprotoberberines: Design, synthesis, antimicrobial evaluation and multi-targeting exploration
Jeyakkumar, Ponmani,Liu, Han-Bo,Gopala, Lavanya,Cheng, Yu,Peng, Xin-Mei,Geng, Rong-Xia,Zhou, Cheng-He
, p. 1737 - 1743 (2017/04/04)
A series of novel benzimidazolyl tetrahydroprotoberberines were conveniently designed and efficiently synthesized from berberine via direct cyclization of tetrahydroprotoberberine aldehyde and o-phenylene diamines under metal-free aerobic oxidation. All the new compounds were characterized by IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and HRMS spectra. The antimicrobial evaluation revealed that the 5-fluorobenzimidazolyl derivative 5b was the most active antibacterial and antifungal molecule with broad spectrum in comparison to Berberine, Chloromycin, Norfloxacin and Fluconazole. It triggered almost no resistance development against MRSA even after 15 passages. Further studies demonstrated that compound 5b could not only effectively interact with Topo IA by hydrogen bonds, but also intercalate into calf thymus DNA and cleave pBR322 DNA, which might be responsible for its powerful bioactivities.