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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 232, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2022.114188
Keywords
dihydropyrimidinone; Imidazole; Resistance; Cell membrane; Antibacterial
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [21971212]
- Chongqing Research Program of Basic Research and Frontier Technology [cstc2018jcyjAX0518]
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The health crisis caused by severe multidrug resistance is driving the need for new alternative antibacterial drugs. A library of structurally unique dihydropyrimidinone imidazoles was developed as potential antibacterial agents. One compound, sulfamethoxazole hybridized dihydropyrimidinone imidazole 8b, exhibited excellent antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant K. pneumonia and A. baumanii, and showed low cytotoxicity and good biofilm inhibition ability.
The health crisis caused by severe multidrug resistance increasingly compels the exploitation of new alternative antibacterial drugs. A library of structurally unique dihydropyrimidinone imidazoles as novel potential antibacterial agents was developed with the aim to confront drug resistance. Some target compounds exhibited strong antibacterial activities, especially, sulfamethoxazole hybridized dihydropyrimidinone imidazole 8b was found to be extremely active against multidrug-resistant K. pneumonia and A. baumanii at a low concentration of 0.5 mu g/mL, which outperformed norfloxacin even clinafloxacin. This active compound not only exhibited low cytotoxicity to mammalian cells (human red blood cells, HepG2 and ECs), but also possessed rapid bactericidal property, good biofilm inhibition ability, and a low propensity to induce K. pneumonia and A. baumanii resistance. Further studies revealed that the inhibitory effect of the active compound 8b might be achieved by disrupting membrane integrity, increasing ROS generation, reducing GSH activity and interacting with DNA. These findings provided a bright hope for developing dihydropyrimidinone imidazoles to combat emergent drug resistance. (c) 2022 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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