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Novel benzimidazolyl tetrahydroprotoberberines: Design, synthesis, antimicrobial evaluation and multi-targeting exploration
Jeyakkumar, Ponmani,Liu, Han-Bo,Gopala, Lavanya,Cheng, Yu,Peng, Xin-Mei,Geng, Rong-Xia,Zhou, Cheng-He
, p. 1737 - 1743 (2017)
A series of novel benzimidazolyl tetrahydroprotoberberines were conveniently designed and efficiently synthesized from berberine via direct cyclization of tetrahydroprotoberberine aldehyde and o-phenylene diamines under metal-free aerobic oxidation. All the new compounds were characterized by IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and HRMS spectra. The antimicrobial evaluation revealed that the 5-fluorobenzimidazolyl derivative 5b was the most active antibacterial and antifungal molecule with broad spectrum in comparison to Berberine, Chloromycin, Norfloxacin and Fluconazole. It triggered almost no resistance development against MRSA even after 15 passages. Further studies demonstrated that compound 5b could not only effectively interact with Topo IA by hydrogen bonds, but also intercalate into calf thymus DNA and cleave pBR322 DNA, which might be responsible for its powerful bioactivities.
Novel purine benzimidazoles as antimicrobial agents by regulating ROS generation and targeting clinically resistant Staphylococcus aureus DNA groove
Wang, Ya-Nan,Bheemanaboina, Rammohan R. Yadav,Cai, Gui-Xin,Zhou, Cheng-He
supporting information, p. 1621 - 1628 (2018/03/29)
A novel series of purine benzimidazole hybrids were designed and synthesized for the first time with the aim to circumvent the increasing antibiotic resistance. Hexyl appended hybrid 3c gave potent activities against most of the tested bacteria and fungi especially against multidrug-resistant strains Staphylococcus aureus (MIC = 4 μg/mL). Structure-activity relationships revealed that the benzimidazole fragment at the 9-position of purine played an important role in exerting potentially antibacterial activity. Both cell toxicity and ROS generation assays indicated that the purine derivative 3c showed low cytotoxicity and could be used as a safe agent. Molecular modeling suggested that hybrid 3c could bind with the residues of Topo IA through hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions. Quantum chemical studies were also performed on the target compound 3c to understand the structural features essential for activity. The active molecule 3c could effectively interact with S. aureus DNA to form 3c–DNA complex through groove binding mode, which might block DNA replication to display their powerful antimicrobial activity.
Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 5-fluorouracil-derived benzimidazoles as novel type of potential antimicrobial agents
Fang, Xue-Jie,Jeyakkumar, Ponmani,Avula, Srinivasa Rao,Zhou, Qian,Zhou, Cheng-He
, p. 2584 - 2588 (2016/05/09)
A series of 5-fluorouracil benzimidazoles as novel type of potential antimicrobial agents were designed and synthesized for the first time. Bioactive assay manifested that some of the prepared compounds exhibited good or even stronger antibacterial and an
