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Daria Nawrot1, Barbora Koutníková1, Ondřej Janďourek1
1Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
Abstract:
Infectious diseases, including bacterial, fungal, and viral, have once again gained urgency in the drug development pipeline after the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Tuberculosis (TB) is an old infectious disease for which eradication has not yet been successful. Novel agents are required to have potential activity against both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of TB. In this study, we present a series of 2-phenyl-N-(pyridin-2-yl)acetamides in an attempt to investigate their possible antimycobacterial activity, cytotoxicity on the HepG2 liver cancer cell line, and-as complementary testing-their antibacterial and antifungal properties against a panel of clinically important pathogens. This screening resulted in one compound with promising antimycobacterial activity-compound 12, MICMtb H37Ra = 15.625 μg/mL (56.26 μM). Compounds 17, 24, and 26 were further screened for their antiproliferative activity against human epithelial kidney cancer cell line A498, human prostate cancer cell line PC-3, and human glioblastoma cell line U-87MG, where they were found to possess interesting activity worth further exploration in the future.
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