{"title":"In vitro and in vivo activities of acylated derivatives of isoniazid against mycobacterium tuberculosis.","authors":"Michael J Hearn, Michael H Cynamon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Enzymatic acylation of the antitubercular isoniazid (INH) by N-acetyl transferases reduces the therapeutic effectiveness of the drug. Because it represents a major metabolic pathway for INH in human beings, such acetylation has serious consequences for tuberculosis treatment regimens. Among patients in whom this process is efficient, the \"rapid acetylators,\" the resultant chronic underdosing of INH may give rise to the development of resistance, as well as inadequate therapy. Not much work has been done previously to characterize the antitubercular properties of other N2-acylisoniazids. In order to address the fundamental issue of the activities of these acylated derivatives of INH, a number of such compounds 1a-f were chemically synthesized for investigation by a method providing good yield and purity. In experiments in vitro against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, these compounds displayed minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values between several fold and several hundred fold greater than that of INH itself, on a molar basis, with some of the more active compounds having higher calculated values of log P. Among these derivatives, compound 1b, closely homologous to the INH metabolite 1a, N2-acetylisoniazid, provided unexpected protection in tuberculosis-infected mice. The authors conclude that such close structural congeners of metabolites of INH may serve as significant leads in antitubercular drug discovery and in the exploration of the mode of action of INH.</p>","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"18 4","pages":"103-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24820728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xingjue Xu, Jian Wang, Claude Grison, Sylvian Petek, Philippe Coutrot, Matthew R Birck, Ronald W Woodard, Domenico L Gatti
{"title":"Structure-based design of novel inhibitors of 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate synthase.","authors":"Xingjue Xu, Jian Wang, Claude Grison, Sylvian Petek, Philippe Coutrot, Matthew R Birck, Ronald W Woodard, Domenico L Gatti","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>3-Deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate (KDO8P) is the phosphorylated precursor of KDO, an essential sugar of the lipopolysaccharide of Gram negative bacteria. KDO8P is produced by a specific synthase (KDO8PS) by condensing arabinose 5-phosphate (A5P) and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), with release of inorganic phosphate. As KDO8PS is present in bacteria and plants, but not in mammalian cells, and mutations that inactivate KDO8PS also block cell replication, KDO8PS is a promising target for the design of new antimicrobials that act by blocking lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. Previous studies have shown that a compound mimicking an intermediate of the condensation reaction is a good ligand and a powerful inhibitor. Here we report on the crystallographic investigation of the binding to KDO8PS of new derivatives of this original inhibitor. The structures of the enzyme in complex with these compounds, and also with the PEP analogs, 2-phosphoglyceric acid (2-PGA) and Z-methyl-PEP, point to future strategies for the design of novel inhibitors of KDO8PS.</p>","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"18 2-3","pages":"91-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24124452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xingjue Xu, Jian Wang, C. Grison, Sylvian Petek, P. Coutrot*, M. Birck, R. Woodard, D. Gatti
{"title":"Structure-based design of novel inhibitors of 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate synthase.","authors":"Xingjue Xu, Jian Wang, C. Grison, Sylvian Petek, P. Coutrot*, M. Birck, R. Woodard, D. Gatti","doi":"10.1080/10559610290271787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10559610290271787","url":null,"abstract":"3-Deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate (KDO8P) is the phosphorylated precursor of KDO, an essential sugar of the lipopolysaccharide of Gram negative bacteria. KDO8P is produced by a specific synthase (KDO8PS) by condensing arabinose 5-phosphate (A5P) and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP), with release of inorganic phosphate. As KDO8PS is present in bacteria and plants, but not in mammalian cells, and mutations that inactivate KDO8PS also block cell replication, KDO8PS is a promising target for the design of new antimicrobials that act by blocking lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. Previous studies have shown that a compound mimicking an intermediate of the condensation reaction is a good ligand and a powerful inhibitor. Here we report on the crystallographic investigation of the binding to KDO8PS of new derivatives of this original inhibitor. The structures of the enzyme in complex with these compounds, and also with the PEP analogs, 2-phosphoglyceric acid (2-PGA) and Z-methyl-PEP, point to future strategies for the design of novel inhibitors of KDO8PS.","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"44 1","pages":"91-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76819934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marilyn B Kroeger Smith, Sandra Ruby, Stanislav Horouzhenko, Bryan Buckingham, Julia Richardson, Ina Puleri, Emily Potts, William L Jorgensen, Edward Arnold, Wanyi Zhang, Stephen H Hughes, Christopher J Michejda, Richard H Smith
{"title":"HIV-1 reverse transcriptase variants: molecular modeling of Y181C, V106A, L100I, and K103N mutations with nonnucleoside inhibitors using Monte Carlo simulations in combination with a linear response method.","authors":"Marilyn B Kroeger Smith, Sandra Ruby, Stanislav Horouzhenko, Bryan Buckingham, Julia Richardson, Ina Puleri, Emily Potts, William L Jorgensen, Edward Arnold, Wanyi Zhang, Stephen H Hughes, Christopher J Michejda, Richard H Smith","doi":"10.3109/10559610390484203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10559610390484203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The energies and physical descriptors for the binding of 21 novel 1-(2,6-difluorobenzyl)-2-(2,6-difluorophenyl)-benzimidazole (BPBI) analogs to HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) variants Y181C, L100I, V106A, and K103N have been determined using Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The crystallographic structure of the lead compound, 4-methyl BPBI, was used as a starting point to model the inhibitors in both the mutant bound and the unbound states. The energy terms and physical descriptors obtained from the calculations were reasonably correlated with the respective experimental EC50 values for the inhibitors against the various mutant RTs. Using the linear response correlations from the calculations, 2 novel BPBI inhibitors have been designed and simulations have been carried out. The results show the computed deltaG(binding) values match the experimental data for the analogs. Given the ongoing problem with drug resistance, the ability to predict the activity of novel analogs against variants prior to synthesis is highly advantageous.</p>","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"18 4","pages":"151-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10559610390484203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24821945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3D-QSAR studies of some [[1-aryl(or benzyl)-1-(benzenesulphonamido)methyl] phenyl] alkanoic acid derivatives as thromboxane A2 receptor antagonists.","authors":"K. V. Sairam, J. Sarma, G. Desiraju","doi":"10.3109/10559610290252869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10559610290252869","url":null,"abstract":"Thromboxane A(2) receptor antagonists have attracted much attention in recent times in the design of new agents that could be active against diseases such as thrombosis, asthma and myocardial ischemia. 3D-QSAR studies have been performed on a series of [[1-aryl(or benzyl)-1-(benzenesulphonamido)methyl] phenyl] alkanoic acid derivatives by using the receptor surface analysis (RSA) method. The RSA analysis was carried out on 31 analogues of which 25 were used in the training set and the rest considered for the test set. This study produced reasonably good predictive models with good cross-validated and conventional r(2) values in both the models.","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"65 1","pages":"47-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84404775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Rivara, M. Mor, F. Bordi, Claudia Silva, V. Zuliani, F. Vacondio, G. Morini, P. Plazzi, P. Carrupt, B. Testa
{"title":"Synthesis and three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship analysis of H3 receptor antagonists containing a neutral heterocyclic polar group.","authors":"S. Rivara, M. Mor, F. Bordi, Claudia Silva, V. Zuliani, F. Vacondio, G. Morini, P. Plazzi, P. Carrupt, B. Testa","doi":"10.1080/10559610290249539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10559610290249539","url":null,"abstract":"Three-dimensional quantitative structure-activity relationship (3D-QSAR) analysis was applied to a series of H(3) receptor antagonists characterized by an imidazole ring, an alkyl spacer, and a heterocyclic polar moiety containing an imidazole or a thiazole ring, with a view to investigate the requirements for H(3) receptor affinity on rat cortex membranes. The compounds were aligned based on the hypothesis that the presence of a H-bond donor group in the polar portion of the molecule can increase H(3) receptor affinity. The 3D-QSAR analysis, which was performed using both the CoMFA and CoMSIA protocols, revealed that the presence of a H-bond donor group is not statistically relevant for H(3) receptor affinity. Based on this result, another alignment was adopted that took into consideration the structural features common to all compounds, namely the imidazole ring and the N atom with a free lone pair in the polar portion. The 3D-QSAR models thus obtained showed that H(3) receptor affinity is modulated by the position and direction of the intermolecular interaction elicited by the polar group in the ligands.","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"33 1","pages":"65-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82174910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative structure-activity relationship study on some azidopyridinyl neonicotinoid insecticides for their selective affinity towards the drosophila nicotinic receptor over mammalian alpha4beta2 receptor using electrotopological state atom index.","authors":"Bikash Debnath, Shovanlal Gayen, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Kunal Roy, Tarun Jha","doi":"10.3109/10559610290249557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10559610290249557","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neonicotinoids are the most important class of synthetic insecticides increasingly used in agriculture and veterinary medicine. Fundamental differences between the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) of insects and mammals confer remarkable selectivity of the neonicotinoids at insect nAChR over mammalian nAChR. To identify pharmacophoric requirements of azidopyridinyl neonicotinoids for their efficacy and selectivity towards the insect nAChR over the mammalian one, quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) study was performed using electrotopological state atom (ETSA) indices. This study clearly showed that nitroimines, nitromethylenes, and cyanoimines are more selective to Drosophila nAChR and safe for human being, whereas N-substituted imines have affinity to mammalian receptor. Pharmacophore mapping for both the activities was done.</p>","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"18 2-3","pages":"81-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10559610290249557","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24124451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sulfonate Ester Hydroxamic Acids as Potent and Selective Inhibitors of TACE Enzyme","authors":"J. Levin, M. Du","doi":"10.1080/10559610390476473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10559610390476473","url":null,"abstract":"Sulfonamide hydroxamate derivatives of anthranilic acids are known to be potent inhibitors of cell-free TACE enzyme. However, compounds of this structural class with both high potency and high selectivity for TACE over matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are uncommon. Replacement of the sulfonamide functionality with an isosteric sulfonate ester has resulted in a series of sulfonate ester hydroxamates, 2a-e, with excellent activity against TACE and excellent selectivity over MMP-1 and MMP-13. Although compounds 2a-e possess good permeability in a PAMPA assay, they are only weakly active as inhibitors of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated tumor necrosis factor (TNF) production in human monocytic THP-1 cells. Protein binding affinity also does not predict the lack of cellular activity for these analogs.","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"27 1","pages":"123-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80526855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conformational analysis of globomycin with a signal peptidase II inhibitory activity using molecular dynamics simulation.","authors":"T. Kiho, Y. Iwata, H. Kogen, S. Miyamoto","doi":"10.3109/10559610390450723","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10559610390450723","url":null,"abstract":"Globomycin (1), a 19-membered cyclic depsipeptide, exhibited an antibiotic activity against gram-negative bacteria by inhibiting signal peptidase II in the cytoplasmic membrane. Although only one conformation of 1 was observed for the crystal structure, it was revealed by 1H NMR spectroscopic analysis that 1 exists as a mixture of two rotational isomers in solution (CDCl3 and CD3OD). A conformational analysis of 1 was, therefore, performed by high-temperature molecular dynamics simulation in combination with 1H NMR analysis to elucidate the conformations in solution. The relative ratio of the major and minor isomers present, which differs depending on the solvent, was then derived from their relative energy differences obtained in the conformational analysis. The difference in the relative ratios corresponded with that calculated from the 1H NMR analysis. Finally, the predicted conformations in solution were compared with that of the X-ray crystal structure to find local and global differences that characterize these conformations.","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"34 3 1","pages":"109-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77686177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural bioinformatics and QSAR analysis applied to the acetylcholinesterase and bispyridinium aldoximes.","authors":"P. Mager, A. Weber","doi":"10.3109/10559610390484168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10559610390484168","url":null,"abstract":"The methods of bioinformatics, molecular modelling, and quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) using regression and artificial neural network (ANN) analyses were applied to develop safer aldoxime antidotes against poisoning by organophosphorus (OP) agents with high, mean, and low aging rates. We start here from a molecular modelling of the mouse AChE at an atomistic level. Aim is to predict qualitatively the structural requirements of an aldoxime that shows an unique reactivating activity against the three classes of OPs. An antidotal action should occur by a three-site mechanism: the aldoxime groups of the first pyridinium ring should point towards the catalytic site, and the second pyridinium ring and its substituents should be anchored at the peripherical and anionic subsites. Based on this model, it is predicted that a suitable substituent is based on an arginine-like moiety. Then, an ANN-based QSAR analysis using a training set of aldoximes with known structure and activities was applied. Its input layer consisted of seven nodes: the group-membership descriptors that parameterize the type of the OP, the logarithms of the distribution coefficients at pH 7.4 and their squared term, the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies, the scaled molar refractions of the substituents, and their squared term. It was shown that the qualitative prediction made by molecular modelling can be quantified by an ANN prediction.","PeriodicalId":11297,"journal":{"name":"Drug design and discovery","volume":"9 1","pages":"127-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73418112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}