Oxadiazoles Have Butyrate-Specific Conditional Activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Autor: Mai A. Bailey, Maria Angeles Martinez-Grau, Yulia Ovechkina, Allen Casey, Tanya Parish, Isabel C. Gonzalez Valcarcel, Torey Alling, Juliane Ollinger, Michal Vieth, Megan Files, Julie V. Early
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 60:3608-3616
ISSN: 1098-6596
0066-4804
Popis: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a global pathogen of huge importance which can adapt to several host niche environments in which carbon source availability is likely to vary. We developed and ran a phenotypic screen using butyrate as the sole carbon source to be more reflective of the host lung environment. We screened a library of ∼87,000 small compounds and identified compounds which demonstrated good antitubercular activity against M. tuberculosis grown with butyrate but not with glucose as the carbon source. Among the hits, we identified an oxadiazole series (six compounds) which had specific activity against M. tuberculosis but which lacked cytotoxicity against mammalian cells.
Databáze: OpenAIRE