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Steroidal hydrazones as antimicrobial agents: biological evaluation and molecular docking studies
M Merlani1, N Nadaraia1, N Barbakadze1
1TSMU I, Kutateladze Institute of Pharmacochemistry, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Abstract:
Most of pharmaceutical agents display several or even many biological activities. It is obvious that testing even one compound for thousands of biological activities is a practically not reasonable task. Therefore, computer-aided prediction is the method of choice for the selection of the most promising bioassays for particular compounds. Using PASS Online software, we determined the probable antimicrobial activity of the 31 steroid derivatives. Experimental testing of the antimicrobial activity of the tested compounds by microdilution method confirmed the computational predictions. Furthermore, P. aeruginosa and C. albicans biofilm formation was investigated. Compound 11 showed a biofilm reduction by 42.26% at the MIC of the tested compound. The percentages are lower than ketoconazole, but very close to its activity.
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