Discovery of benzothiazoles as antimycobacterial agents: Synthesis, structure–activity relationships and binding studies with Mycobacterium tuberculosis decaprenylphosphoryl-β-d-ribose 2′-oxidase
作者:Sudhir Landge、Amrita B. Mullick、Kavitha Nagalapur、João Neres、Venkita Subbulakshmi、Kannan Murugan、Anirban Ghosh、Claire Sadler、Mick D. Fellows、Vaishali Humnabadkar、Jyothi Mahadevaswamy、Prakash Vachaspati、Sreevalli Sharma、Parvinder Kaur、Meenakshi Mallya、Suresh Rudrapatna、Disha Awasthy、Vasan K. Sambandamurthy、Florence Pojer、Stewart T. Cole、Tanjore S. Balganesh、Bheemarao G. Ugarkar、V. Balasubramanian、Balachandra S. Bandodkar、Manoranjan Panda、Vasanthi Ramachandran
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2015.11.017
日期:2015.12
We report the discovery of benzothiazoles, a novel anti-mycobacterial series, identified from a whole cell based screening campaign. Benzothiazoles exert their bactericidal activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) through potent inhibition of decaprenylphosphoryl-beta-D-ribose 2'-oxidase (DprE1), the key enzyme involved in arabinogalactan synthesis. Specific target linkage and mode of binding were established using co-crystallization and protein mass spectrometry studies. Most importantly, the current study provides insights on the utilization of systematic medicinal chemistry approaches to mitigate safety liabilities while improving potency during progression from an initial genotoxic hit, the benzothiazole N-oxides (BTOs) to the lead-like AMES negative, crowded benzothiazoles (cBTs). These findings offer opportunities for development of safe clinical candidates against tuberculosis. The design strategy adopted could find potential application in discovery of safe drugs in other therapy areas too. (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.