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BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 30, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2020.127071
Keywords
Streptococcus pneumonia; Pneumococcal infection; Multidrug resistance; 19A strain; 1,2-Dihydroquinoline
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- Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) [SI-1951-30]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2017M3A9G6068246]
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New therapies for treating drug-resistant pneumococcal infections are urgently needed. The novel scaffold 6hydroxy-4-oxo-1,2-dihydro-4H-quinoline was shown to have similar efficacies against all three different serotypes of S. pneumoniae, ATCC 49617 (TM) (19F), ATCC BAA-1663 (TM) (15B), and ATCC 700904 (TM) (19A), in a resazurin-based high-throughput screen using the Korea Chemical Bank library. Further studies to identify a new lead with this scaffold, including tricyclic pyrrolo[3,2,1-ij]quinolone and pyrido[3,2,1-ij]quinolone derivatives, led to the identification of 6d, 7d and 12a. Compound 6d (IC50 = 0.92, 0.75, and 0.77 mu M), 7d (IC50 = 0.57, 0.66, and 0.38 mu M) and 12a (IC50, = 0.27, 1.03, and 0.62 mu M) showed submicromolar IC50, values against 19F, 15B, and 19A, respectively, and thus serve as a starting point for further optimization. While some of compounds in this series exhibited acceptable pharmacokinetic profiles in preliminary in vivo rat experiments, the most active compound 12a showed poor solubility and high plasma protein binding. Our current research efforts are focused on optimizing compounds to improve physicochemical properties as well as potency.
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