89223-70-1Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Repurposing the antihistamine terfenadine for antimicrobial activity against staphylococcus aureus
Perlmutter, Jessamyn I.,Forbes, Lauren T.,Krysan, Damian J.,Ebsworth-Mojica, Katherine,Colquhoun, Jennifer M.,Wang, Jenna L.,Dunman, Paul M.,Flaherty, Daniel P.
, p. 8540 - 8562 (2014/12/11)
Staphylococcus aureus is a rapidly growing health threat in the U.S., with resistance to several commonly prescribed treatments. A high-throughput screen identified the antihistamine terfenadine to possess, previously unreported, antimicrobial activity against S. aureus and other Gram-positive bacteria. In an effort to repurpose this drug, structure-activity relationship studies yielded 84 terfenadine-based analogues with several modifications providing increased activity versus S. aureus and other bacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mechanism of action studies revealed these compounds to exert their antibacterial effects, at least in part, through inhibition of the bacterial type II topoisomerases. This scaffold suffers from hERG liabilities which were not remedied through this round of optimization; however, given the overall improvement in activity of the set, terfenadine-based analogues provide a novel structural class of antimicrobial compounds with potential for further characterization as part of the continuing process to meet the current need for new antibiotics.
A highly predictive 3D-QSAR model for binding to the voltage-gated sodium channel: Design of potent new ligands
Zha, Congxiang,Brown, George B.,Brouillette, Wayne J.
, p. 95 - 104 (2014/01/17)
A comprehensive comparative molecular field analysis (CoMFA) model for the binding of ligands to the neuronal voltage-gated sodium channel was generated based on 67 diverse compounds. Earlier published CoMFA models for this target provided μM ligands, but the improved model described here provided structurally novel compounds with low nM IC50. For example, new compounds 94 and 95 had IC50 values of 129 and 119 nM, respectively.
