Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 5'-C-piperidinyl-5'-O-aminoribosyluridines as potential antibacterial agents

Autor: Satoshi Ichikawa, Akira Matsuda, Takeshi Nakaya
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Organicbiomolecular chemistry. 13(28)
ISSN: 1477-0539
Popis: The discovery of new antibiotics is critical because the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria has posed a serious public health problem. Caprazamycins, which are nucleoside antibiotics, are a promising lead with a novel mode of action, and we have designed simplified analogues containing a piperidine as a scaffold linking the crucial structural units of caprazamycins. These analogues were step-economically synthesized via a sequential aza-Prins–Ritter reaction. Among the tested compounds, the analogue 7 exhibited good MraY inhibitory activity, antibacterial activity against Gram-positive bacterial strains including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, and metabolic stability. The observed cytotoxicity of 7 against HepG2 cells was overcome by modulating the fatty acyl side chain. The knowledge obtained from our structure–activity relationship studies of the caprazamycins will provide further direction toward the design of potent MraY inhibitors.
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