Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of 2-Nitroimidazopyrazin-one/-es with Antitubercular and Antiparasitic Activity

Autor: Angie M. Jarrad, Mark A. T. Blaskovich, Tomislav Karoli, Mark S. Butler, Chee Wei Ang, Nicholas P. West, Mark E. Cooper, Vicky M. Avery, Melissa Sykes, Kyra Woods, Anjan Debnath, Amy J. Jones, Hye Jee Hahn, Lendl Tan, Ruby Pelingon
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
ISSN: 1520-4804
0022-2623
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01578
Popis: Tuberculosis and parasitic diseases, such as giardiasis, amebiasis, leishmaniasis, and trypanosomiasis, all urgently require improved treatment options. Recently, it has been shown that antitubercular bicyclic nitroimidazoles such as pretomanid and delamanid have potential as repurposed therapeutics for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis. Here, we show that pretomanid also possesses potent activity against Giardia lamblia and Entamoeba histolytica, thus expanding the therapeutic potential of nitroimidazooxazines. Synthetic analogues with a novel nitroimidazopyrazin-one/-e bicyclic nitroimidazole chemotype were designed and synthesized, and structure–activity relationships were generated. Selected derivatives had potent antiparasitic and antitubercular activity while maintaining drug-like properties such as low cytotoxicity, good metabolic stability in liver microsomes and high apparent permeability across Caco-2 cells. The kinetic solubility of the new bicyclic derivatives varied and was found to be a key parameter for future optimization. Taken together, these results suggest that promising subclasses of bicyclic nitroimidazoles containing different core architectures have potential for further development.
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