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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel aryldiketo acids with enhanced antibacterial activity against multidrug resistant bacterial strains

Overview of attention for article published in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, November 2017
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Title
Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel aryldiketo acids with enhanced antibacterial activity against multidrug resistant bacterial strains
Published in
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, November 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.ejmech.2017.10.045
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Authors

Ilija N. Cvijetić, Tatjana Ž. Verbić, Pedro Ernesto de Resende, Paul Stapleton, Simon Gibbons, Ivan O. Juranić, Branko J. Drakulić, Mire Zloh

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major health problem worldwide, because of ability of bacteria, fungi and viruses to evade known therapeutic agents used in treatment of infections. Aryldiketo acids (ADK) have shown antimicrobial activity against several resistant strains including Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Our previous studies revealed that ADK analogues having bulky alkyl group in ortho position on a phenyl ring have up to ten times better activity than norfloxacin against the same strains. Rational modifications of analogues by introduction of hydrophobic substituents on the aromatic ring has led to more than tenfold increase in antibacterial activity against multidrug resistant Gram positive strains. To elucidate a potential mechanism of action for this potentially novel class of antimicrobials, several bacterial enzymes were identified as putative targets according to literature data and pharmacophoric similarity searches for potent ADK analogues. Among the seven bacterial targets chosen, the strongest favorable binding interactions were observed between most active analogue and S. aureus dehydrosqualene synthase and DNA gyrase. Furthermore, the docking results in combination with literature data suggest that these novel molecules could also target several other bacterial enzymes, including prenyl-transferases and methionine aminopeptidase. These results and our statistically significant 3D QSAR model could be used to guide the further design of more potent derivatives as well as in virtual screening for novel antibacterial agents.

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Unknown 26 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 23%
Researcher 4 15%
Professor 3 12%
Student > Bachelor 2 8%
Student > Master 2 8%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 5 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemistry 8 31%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Computer Science 1 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 8 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 December 2022.
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#15,745,807
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
#4,314
of 6,651 outputs
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#185,934
of 338,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age from European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
#52
of 130 outputs
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