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Assay Development for High-Throughput Drug Screening Against Mycobacteria
Published on: October 25, 2024
New antituberculotics originated from salicylanilides with promising in vitro activity against atypical mycobacterial
Ales Imramovský1, Jarmila Vinsová, Juana Monreal Férriz
1Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Pardubice, nam. Cs. Legii 565, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic. Ales.Imramovsky@upce.cz
Abstract:
A new series of 30 N-protected amino acid esters were prepared as a part of ongoing search for new anti-tuberculosis active salicylanilides. The esters possess high in vitro activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium, and two strains of Mycobacterium kansasii, where one is an isolate from the patient, with MIC in the range 1-32 micromol/L for all tested strains. The prepared esters can be considered as prodrugs with better bio-availability and as more efficient transport forms through the mycobacterial cell membranes due to the higher lipophilicity. The experimental and calculated lipophilicity, stability, antituberculotic activity, cytotoxicity as well as the quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) explored by the Intelligent Problem Solver (IPS) in Trajan Neural Network Simulator 6.0 are presented.
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