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Development of novel anti-mycobacterial agents is an urgent challenge to eradicate
the increasing emergence and rapid spread of multidrug-resistant strains (MDR).
Filamentous temperature-sensitive protein Z (FtsZ), a highly conserved protein in
prokaryotes, is a crucial cell division protein. As inactivation or alteration of FtsZ
assembly results in cell division inhibition and consequently cell death, FtsZ is
considered a promising antibacterial target. With the aim to find potent and novel
anti-mycobacterial agents, a series of N
1
-(benzo[d]oxazol-2-yl)-N
4
-arylidine
compounds (6a-o) were designed and synthesized following a molecular
hybridization approach. Activity of the synthesized compounds was evaluated
against drug-sensitive, multidrug-resistant and extensive-drug resistant
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Compounds 6b, 6c, 6l, 6m and 6o showed
promising anti-mycobacterial activity with MIC range of 0.48 – 1.95 µg/mL, with
low cytotoxicity againt human non-tumorigenic lung fibroblast WI-38 cells. In
addition, activity of the compounds 6b, 6c, 6l, 6m and 6o was evaluated against
bronchitis causing-bacteria. Interestingly, they exhibited good activity against
bacteria causing bronchitis; S. pneumoniae, K. pneumoniae, M. pneumoniae and B.
pertussis with MIC range of 0.24 – 7.81 µg/mL. Furthermore, compounds 6b, 6c,
6e, 6f, 6j, 6l-6o were evaluated as E. coli Ftsz GTPase inhibitors. Molecular
dynamics simulations of Mtb FtsZ protein-ligand complexes identified the
interdomain site as the binding site and key interactions. Additionally, density
function theory (DFT) studies of the compounds 6c, 6l and 6n were performed to
investigate E/Z isomerization. Compounds 6c and 6l are present as E-isomers and
compound 6n as an in E/Z mixture. Our preliminary results provide the lead for the
design of more potent and selective hybrid anti-mycobacterial drugs.
M. tuberculosis stimulates the macrophage to rapidly secrete vascular endothelial
growth factor (VEGF) extracellularly so there is a relationship between
tuberculosis and VEGF over secretion so this is my starting point in designing and
synthesis of novel agents inhibit both tuberculosis and VEGFR-2 which have dual
–antitubercular/anti cancer- activity. Accordingly, two series of new compounds
N`-(benzo[d]oxa/thiazol-2-yl)-2-(5-aryl-4-phenyl-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-ylthio)
acetohydrazide (11a-j), N`-(benzo[d]oxazol-2-yl)-2-(5-aryl-4-phenyl-4H-1,2,4-
triazol-3-ylthio) propanehydrazide (11k,l) and N-(4-un/substituted phenyl)-Nun/substituted-2-((3-phenyl-[1,2,4]triazolo[3,4-b][1,3,4]thiadiazol-6-
yl)thio)acetamide (16a-e) were designed and synthesized following a molecular
hybridization approach. Activity of the synthesized compounds was evaluated
against drug-sensitive, multidrug-resistant and extensive-drug resistant (Mtb).
Compounds 11h, 11i, 11l and 16c that showed the highest activities against all Mtb
strains were selected for enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase inhibition assay. The
most active anti-mycobacterial compound 11h was observed to be the most potent
InhA inhibitor (IC50 = 1.3 μM), IC50 range of compounds 11h, 11i, 11l and 16c
against InhA = 1.3 - 4.7 μM. The synthesized compounds (11a-l and 16a-e) were
in vitro evaluated against VEGFR-2 activity. The obtained results revealed that the
synthesized compounds showed promising activity on VEGFR-2. Besides, the
compounds were in vitro assessed against topoisomerase II. However, they showed
weak activity on topoisomerase II. Based on the results obtained from VEGFR-2
inhibition, the most active compounds (11a, 11c, 11e, 11f, 11h, 11l, 16a, 16d and
16e) were selected for further evaluation of the anti-proliferative activity against
two cancer cell lines, (A549) and (HepG2) using MTT assay protocol. Generally,
compounds 16d and 11e were found to be the most anti-proliferative compounds
against the two tested cancer cell lines. The safety profile of the most active
compounds were of low cytotoxicity against normal adult liver epithelial cells (Transformed Human Liver Epithelial-2, THLE-2 cells). Compounds 11e and 16a
have apoptosis percentages of 40.20% and 32.20%, respectively, which are more
than the control (0.51%). Furthermore, compound 11e and 16a significantly
increased the level of caspase-3 (4.1-fold and 3.6-fold, respectively) when
compared to control cells.
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