中文名称 | 英文名称 | CAS号 | 化学式 | 分子量 |
---|---|---|---|---|
甲硝唑 | metronidazole | 443-48-1 | C6H9N3O3 | 171.156 |
1-(2-叠氮乙基)-2-甲基-5-硝基咪唑 | 1-(2-azidoethyl)-2-methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazole | 60666-28-6 | C6H8N6O2 | 196.169 |
2-甲基-5-硝基-1H-咪唑-1-乙基甲磺酸酯 | 2-(2-methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)ethyl methanesulfonate | 30746-54-4 | C7H11N3O5S | 249.247 |
—— | 2-(2-methyl-5-nitro-1H-imidazol-1-yl)ethyl 4-methylbenzenesulfonate | 30575-42-9 | C13H15N3O5S | 325.345 |
Drugs against disease-causing microbes are among the major achievements of modern medicine, but many microbes show a tenacious ability to develop resistance, so they are no longer killed by available drugs. We show here for an important class of these drugs, represented by the common drug metronidazole, that broad modifications of the basic drug structure can improve drug activities against several clinically important microbes and unexpectedly overcome different forms of resistance. Several of these new drugs cure infections in animal models and are safe in initial toxicity evaluations. These findings provide reasons to develop this class of drugs as human medicines in the ongoing fight against disease-causing microbes.