Antimicrobial peptides are one of the lines of defense produced by several hosts in response to bacterial infections. Inspired by them and recent discoveries of xanthones as bacterial efflux pump inhibitors, chiral amides with a xanthone scaffold were planned to be potential antimicrobial adjuvants. The chiral derivatives of xanthones were obtained by peptide coupling reactions between suitable xanthones with enantiomerically pure building blocks, yielding derivatives with high enantiomeric purity. Among 18 compounds investigated for their antimicrobial activity against reference strains of bacteria and fungi, antibacterial activity for the tested strains was not found. Selected compounds were also evaluated for their potential to inhibit bacterial efflux pumps. Compound (R,R)-8 inhibited efflux pumps in the Gram-positive model tested and three compounds, (S,S)-8, (R)-17 and (R,S)-18, displayed the same activity in the Gram-negative strain used. Studies were performed on the inhibition of biofilm formation and quorum-sensing, to which the enantiomeric pair 8 displayed activity for the latter. To gain a better understanding of how the active compounds bind to the efflux pumps, docking studies were performed. Hit compounds were proposed for each activity, and it was shown that enantioselectivity was noticeable and must be considered, as enantiomers displayed differences in activity.
抗菌肽是一种由多种宿主产生的防御线之一,用于应对细菌感染。受到它们的启发以及最近发现的
黄酮类化合物作为细菌外排泵
抑制剂,我们计划设计具有
黄酮骨架的手性
酰胺作为潜在的抗菌辅助剂。通过适当的
黄酮与对映异构纯的构建块进行肽偶联反应,获得了
黄酮的手性衍
生物,产物的对映纯度较高。在对18种化合物进行抗菌活性研究时,针对细菌和真菌的参考菌株,未发现对测试菌株的抗菌活性。还评估了选择性化合物对抑制细菌外排泵的潜力。化合物(R,R)-8抑制了测试的革兰氏阳性模型中的外排泵,而三种化合物(S,S)-8、(R)-17和(R,S)-18在使用的革兰氏阴性菌株中显示了相同的活性。对
生物膜形成和群体感应的抑制研究表明,对映异构体8对后者显示了活性。为了更好地了解活性化合物如何与外排泵结合,进行了对接研究。对于每种活性提出了命中化合物,并且显示出对映选择性是显著的,必须予以考虑,因为对映异构体在活性上显示出差异。