Investigation of the activity of 4-aminoquinolines as cysteine protease inhibitors with application in the treatment of Chagas disease.

IF 2.5 4区医学 Q2 PARASITOLOGY

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Pub Date : 2025-02-07 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1590/0074-02760240161

Rahamah Sheu-Idrees, Gabriel Vitor de Lima Marques, Pedro Augusto Lemos Santana, Lucas Abreu Diniz, Daniela de Melo Resende, Saidi Odoma, Omodamiro Olorunshola, Rafaela Salgado Ferreira, Silvane Maria Fonseca Murta, Vinícius Gonçalves Maltarollo, Renata Barbosa de Oliveira

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Abstract

Background: Chagas disease (CD) is a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi. The current drugs used to treat these diseases have limited efficacy and produce severe side effects. 4-aminoquinoline derivatives were shown to be a promising class of inhibitors of cysteine proteases cruzain and TbrCATL.

Objectives: To evaluate the trypanocidal activity of a new series of aminoquinolines as potential inhibitors of cruzain and TbrCATL.

Methods: Three aminoquinolines were synthesised and their in vitro activity was evaluated against cruzain and TbrCATL as well as against amastigotes and trypomastigotes forms of T. cruzi. In silico studies were also carried out to try to understand the experimental results.

Findings: Compound 5 showed promising activity against cruzain and TbrCATL, with better performance than E60, the reference drug. Compound 5 inhibited cruzain and TbrCATL at IC50 of 23 µM ±3 and 29 µM ±1, respectively, but this inhibition showed characteristics of promiscuous inhibition by colloidal aggregation. On the other hand, the compound 4 showed to be more promising activity against T. cruzi with IC50 2.57 µM ± 0.03 lower than the reference drug benznidazole 3.8 µM.

Main conclusions: The results of this study can guide new drug development for the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 医学-寄生虫学

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5.00

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3-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz is a journal specialized in microbes & their vectors causing human infections. This means that we accept manuscripts covering multidisciplinary approaches and findings in the basic aspects of infectious diseases, e.g. basic in research in prokariotes, eukaryotes, and/or virus. Articles must clearly show what is the main question to be answered, the hypothesis raised, and the contribution given by the study. Priority is given to manuscripts reporting novel mechanisms and general findings concerning the biology of human infectious prokariotes, eukariotes or virus. Papers reporting innovative methods for diagnostics or that advance the basic research with these infectious agents are also welcome. It is important to mention what we do not publish: veterinary infectious agents research, taxonomic analysis and re-description of species, epidemiological studies or surveys or case reports and data re-analysis. Manuscripts that fall in these cases or that are considered of low priority by the journal editorial board, will be returned to the author(s) for submission to another journal.