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Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel anti-infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models
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| author | Gessner, Richard Klaus |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6308 Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel anti-infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models Gessner, Richard Klaus Chibale, Kelly Chemistry Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 205). Some 12-16 hours after the invasion of the human erythrocyte by the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, there appear in the erythrocyte membrane ‘new permeability pathways’ which mediate an increased permeability of the infected cell to a range of low molecular weight solutes, including anions, cations, amino acids, polyols and nucleosides. There is evidence that the pathways have an important bi-functional role: firstly, that the new permeability pathways are required for the uptake of essential nutrients, and secondly, for the removal of metabolic wastes from the infected cells. Reported screening of 165 analogues of the new permeability pathways inhibitor furosemide, and the related compound bumetanide, for their effect on the malaria parasite-induced choline influx resulted in the identification of 13 effective compounds. Of these, 5 showed inhibitory activity in vitro against the parasite at a concentration of 10 μM. Analysis of the data on all the 165 compounds revealed some preliminary structure-activity relationships. Based on this preliminary structure-activity relationship data, compounds with specific diversity sites were designed for synthesis. Acetolactate synthase (also known as acetohydroxyacid synthase) is the enzyme which catalyzes the first step in the biosynthesis of branched chain amino acids, including valine, leucine and isoleucine. It is a target for several classes of herbicides including sulfonyl ureas and imidazolinones. The complete crystal structure of yeast acetolactate synthase has been shown to share 26% homology with the Mycobacterium tuberculosis enzyme. On this basis, docking studies were initiated, which resulted in the generation of a virtual library of biaryl-based sulfonyl ureas. Exploratory libraries of sulfonyl ureas, imidazolinones, sulfonylcyanoguanidines, acylthioureas and related compounds (phthalimides) with the potential of having antituberculosis activity, presumably targeting acetolactate synthase, were synthesized. Studying the general approaches to the synthesis of sulfonyl ureas, the general procedure is to either react a sulfonamide with an isocyanate in the presence of a weak base, or to react a sulfonyl isocyanate with a primary or secondary amine. Both approaches work well chemically. However, the lack of diverse commercially available (sulfonyl) isocyanates, as well as the instability of isocyanates in general are drawbacks. A method that generates a vast selection of (sulfonyl) isocyanates from a range of commercially available starting materials would, hence, be very useful. A new approach to the synthesis of sulfonyl ureas was envisaged. This strategy involves the use of 1,2,4-dithiazolidine-3,5-dione, which should provide an alternative route to the arylsulfonyl ureas. 2014-08-13T14:26:19Z 2014-08-13T14:26:19Z 2008 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6308 eng application/pdf Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Chemistry Gessner, Richard Klaus Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel anti-infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel anti-infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models |
| title_full | Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel anti-infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models |
| title_fullStr | Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel anti-infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models |
| title_full_unstemmed | Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel anti-infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models |
| title_short | Synthesis and structure-activity relationship studies of novel anti-infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models |
| title_sort | synthesis and structure activity relationship studies of novel anti infectives for cross screening in tuberculosis and malaria disease models |
| topic | Chemistry |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6308 |
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