The present invention includes novel compounds based on the tomatidine skeleton as well as composition comprising these compounds alone and in combination with known compounds, which exhibit antimicrobial activity against extracellular or intracellular electron transport-deficient microbes and/or increase the antimicrobial activity of aminoglycoside antibiotics against their targets, and which are useful as antibacterial agents for treatment or prophylaxis of monomicrobiotic or polymicrobic bacterial infections or for the reduction of antibiotic resistance development in animals or in humans, or for use as antiseptics or agents for sterilization or disinfection.
本发明包括以
番茄碱骨架为
基础的新化合物,以及包含这些化合物的组合物,这些化合物单独或与已知化合物结合,对细胞外或细胞内电子传递缺陷微
生物表现出抗微
生物活性,并/或增加
氨基糖苷类
抗生素对其靶标的抗微
生物活性,可用作抗菌剂,用于治疗或预防单微
生物或多微
生物细菌感染,或用于减少动物或人类体内
抗生素耐药性的发展,或用作
防腐剂、
杀菌剂或消毒剂。