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NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH
Volume 33, Issue 22, Pages 3181-3189Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2018.1474465
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Thymol derivative; antibacterial activities; antifungal activity; molecular docking
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- Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University)
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Twelve substituted aryl-azo-thymol derivatives (4a to 4 l) were synthesized and characterized by several spectral techniques such as, FTIR, UV-vis, proton NMR, Mass spectrometry and elemental analysis. Antimicrobial activities were evaluated by agar-well diffusion method against isolated MRSA, ESBL-producing pathogenic bacteria and antifungal resistant fungi, in vitro. In addition, drug likeness properties of derivatives were assessed through bioinformatic tools such as, PASS prediction, molecular docking and Lipinski rules of five, along with determination of toxic nature and LD50 values. Among 12 derivatives, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4 g, 4i, 4j and 4 k had significant antibacterial and antifungal activities with minimum inhibitory concentration values, 40 to 80 mu g/ml. Moreover, the docking scores of derivatives were -8.27 to -11.44 kcal/mol, against 4 bacterial targets and -9.45 to -12.49 kcal/mol against 2 fungal targets. Thus, from in vitro and in silico studies, thymol derivatives had control of MRSA, ESBL-producing bacteria and antifungal resistant fungi.
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