Exploring the anti-biofilm activity of cinnamic acid derivatives in Candida albicans
摘要:
Some compounds, characterized by phenylethenyl moiety, such as methyl cinnamate and caffeic acid phenethyl ester, are able to inhibit C. albicans biofilm formation. On these bases, and as a consequence of our previous work, we synthesized a series of cinnamoyl ester and amide derivatives in order to evaluate them for the activity against C. albicans biofilm and planlctonically grown cells.The most active compounds 7 and 8 showed >> 50% biofilm inhibition concentrations (BMIC50) of 2 mu g/mL and 4 mu g/mL respectively, against C albicans biofilm formation; otherwise, 7 showed an interesting activity also against mature biofilm, with BMIC50 of 8 mu g/mL. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A series of novel cinnamic acid metronidazole ester derivatives have been designed and synthesized, and their biological activities were also evaluated as potential EGFR and HER-2 kinase inhibitors. Compound 3h showed the most potent biological activity (IC50 = 0.62 μM for EGFR and IC50 = 2.15 μM for HER-2). Docking simulation was performed to position compound 3h into the EGFR active site to determine