173306-53-1Relevant articles and documents
Repurposing the antihistamine terfenadine for antimicrobial activity against staphylococcus aureus
Perlmutter, Jessamyn I.,Forbes, Lauren T.,Krysan, Damian J.,Ebsworth-Mojica, Katherine,Colquhoun, Jennifer M.,Wang, Jenna L.,Dunman, Paul M.,Flaherty, Daniel P.
, p. 8540 - 8562 (2014/12/11)
Staphylococcus aureus is a rapidly growing health threat in the U.S., with resistance to several commonly prescribed treatments. A high-throughput screen identified the antihistamine terfenadine to possess, previously unreported, antimicrobial activity against S. aureus and other Gram-positive bacteria. In an effort to repurpose this drug, structure-activity relationship studies yielded 84 terfenadine-based analogues with several modifications providing increased activity versus S. aureus and other bacterial pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mechanism of action studies revealed these compounds to exert their antibacterial effects, at least in part, through inhibition of the bacterial type II topoisomerases. This scaffold suffers from hERG liabilities which were not remedied through this round of optimization; however, given the overall improvement in activity of the set, terfenadine-based analogues provide a novel structural class of antimicrobial compounds with potential for further characterization as part of the continuing process to meet the current need for new antibiotics.
Design and synthesis of selective, high-affinity inhibitors of human cytochrome P450 2J2
Lafite, Pierre,Dijols, Sylvie,Buisson, Didier,Macherey, Anne-Christine,Zeldin, Darryl C.,Dansette, Patrick M.,Mansuy, Daniel
, p. 2777 - 2780 (2007/10/03)
The active site topology, substrate specificity, and biological roles of the human cytochrome P450 CYP2J2, which is mainly expressed in the cardiovascular system, are poorly known even though recent data suggest that it could be a novel biomarker and potential target for therapy of human cancer. This paper reports a first series of high-affinity, selective CYP2J2 inhibitors that are related to terfenadine, with Ki values as low as 160 nM, that should be useful tools to determine the biological roles of CYP2J2.
