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INHIBITORS OF DIHYDROCERAMIDE DESATURASE FOR TREATING DISEASE
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Paragraph 0162; 0163; 0164, (2019/08/20)
Disclosed herein are dihydroceramide desaturase 1 (Des1) inhibitor compounds and compositions, which are useful in the treatment of diseases, such as metabolic disorders, where inhibition of Des1 is expected to be therapeutic to a patient. Methods of inhibition of Des1 activity in a human or animal subject are also provided.
First identification of boronic species as novel potential inhibitors of the Staphylococcus aureus NorA efflux pump
Fontaine, Fanny,Hequet, Arnaud,Voisin-Chiret, Anne-Sophie,Bouillon, Alexandre,Lesnard, Aurélien,Cresteil, Thierry,Jolivalt, Claude,Rault, Sylvain
, p. 2536 - 2548 (2014/04/17)
Overexpression of efflux pumps is an important mechanism of bacterial resistance that results in the extrusion of antimicrobial agents outside the bacterial cell. Inhibition of such pumps appears to be a promising strategy that could restore the potency of existing antibiotics. The NorA efflux pump of Staphylococcus aureus confers resistance to a wide range of unrelated substrates, such as hydrophilic fluoroquinolones, leading to a multidrug-resistance phenotype. In this work, approximately 150 heterocyclic boronic species were evaluated for their activity against susceptible and resistant strains of S. aureus. Twenty-four hit compounds, although inactive when tested alone, were found to potentiate ciprofloxacin activity by a 4-fold increase at concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 8 μg/mL against S. aureus 1199B, which overexpresses NorA. Boron-free analogues showed no biological activity, thus revealing that the boron atom is crucial for biological activity. This work describes the first reported efflux pump inhibitory activity of boronic acid derivatives.
