作者:Xinfeng Wang、Jinsen Chen、Wei Wang、Anna Jaunarajs、Xiang Wang
DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2019.115095
日期:2019.11
Resistance-modifying agents (RMAs) offer a promising solution to combat bacterial antibiotic resistance. Here we report the discovery and structure-activity relationships of a new class of RMAs with a novel tryptoline-based benzothiazole scaffold. Our most potent compound in this series (4ad) re-sensitizes multiple MRSA strains to cephalosporins at low concentrations (2 mu g/mL) and has low mammalian cytotoxicity with a half growth inhibitory concentration (GI(50)) > 100 mu g/mL in human cervical carcinoma (HeLa) cells. In addition, the same core scaffold with different substitutions also gives good antibacterial activity against MRSA.