Novel bisbenzamidines as potential drug candidates for the treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
作者:Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde、Annie Mayence、Tien L Huang、Margaret S Collins、Sandra Rebholz、Peter D Walzer、Melanie T Cushion
DOI:10.1016/j.bmcl.2004.06.034
日期:2004.9
A series of pentamidine congeners has been synthesized and screened for their in vitro activity against Pneumocystis carinii. Among the tested compounds, bisbenzamidines linked by a flexible pentanediamide or hexanediamide chain (7 and 9) emerged as exceptionally potent agents that were more effective and less toxic than pentamidine in the assays described in this study. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.