| Autor: |
Choudhury, Ayesha Aktar Khanam, Vinayagam, Sathishkumar, Adhikari, Nayana, Ghosh, Surajit Kumar, Sattu, Kamaraj |
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3 Biotech; August 2022, Vol. 12 Issue: 8 |
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Antimalarial drug resistance is a major threat due to the emerging resistance to all the available drugs in the market. In an approach to develop alternative drugs, a novel class of Pf-DHFR inhibitors was developed using pyrimidine as the core nucleus and substituting the 4- and 6- positions with amines and 4-amino benzoic acid (PABA) to avoid the problem of drug resistance. The resultant compounds 3(a–j) after primary in silico screening and filtering were synthesized using microwave efficiently in high yield and reduced time period compared to conventional synthesis. The antimalarial assay was performed in vitro, against chloroquine-sensitive (3D7) and chloroquine-resistant (Dd2) strains of Plasmodium falciparumusing chloroquine as a reference standard. The IC50values were in the range of 5.26–106.76 µg/ml for 3D7 and in Dd2 the value ranges from 4.71 to 112.98 µg/ml. Compounds 3d, 3e, 3f and 3h showed significant antimalarial activity against both the strains of P. falciparumwith no cytotoxicity against fibroblast cell line and 3f was found to be the most potent among them. The hemolysis assay of all the compounds in fresh erythrocytes showed insignificant hemolysis below 5% at a higher dose level. Hence, the present study suggests the possible utility of PABA-substituted pyrimidine scaffold for further development of new Pf-DHFR inhibitors. |
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