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Identification of 2-aminothiazole-4-carboxylate derivatives active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and the beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase mtFabH

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19/05/2009
Author
Al-Balas, Qosay
Anthony, Nahoum G.
Al-Jaidi, Bilal
Alnimr, Amani
Abbott, Grainne
Brown, Alistair K.
Taylor, Rebecca C.
Besra, Gurdyal S.
McHugh, Timothy D.
Gillespie, Stephen H.
Johnston, Blair F.
Mackay, Simon P.
Coxon, Geoffrey D.
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QD Chemistry
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease which kills two million people every year and infects approximately over one-third of the world's population. The difficulty in managing tuberculosis is the prolonged treatment duration, the emergence of drug resistance and co-infection with HIV/AIDS. Tuberculosis control requires new drugs that act at novel drug targets to help combat resistant forms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and reduce treatment duration. Methodology/Principal Findings: Our approach was to modify the naturally occurring and synthetically challenging antibiotic thiolactomycin (TLM) to the more tractable 2-aminothiazole-4-carboxylate scaffold to generate compounds that mimic TLM's novel mode of action. We report here the identification of a series of compounds possessing excellent activity against M. tuberculosis H37Rv and, dissociatively, against the beta-ketoacyl synthase enzyme mtFabH which is targeted by TLM. Specifically, methyl 2-amino-5-benzylthiazole-4-carboxylate was found to inhibit M. tuberculosis H37Rv with an MIC of 0.06 mu g/ml (240 nM), but showed no activity against mtFabH, whereas methyl 2-(2-bromoacetamido)-5-(3-chlorophenyl)thiazole-4-carboxylate inhibited mtFabH with an IC50 of 0.95 +/- 0.05 mu g/ml (2.43 +/- 0.13 mu M) but was not active against the whole cell organism. Conclusions/Significance: These findings clearly identify the 2-aminothiazole-4-carboxylate scaffold as a promising new template towards the discovery of a new class of anti-tubercular agents.
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Al-Balas , Q , Anthony , N G , Al-Jaidi , B , Alnimr , A , Abbott , G , Brown , A K , Taylor , R C , Besra , G S , McHugh , T D , Gillespie , S H , Johnston , B F , Mackay , S P & Coxon , G D 2009 , ' Identification of 2-aminothiazole-4-carboxylate derivatives active against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and the beta-ketoacyl-ACP synthase mtFabH ' , PLoS ONE , vol. 4 , no. 5 , pp. e5617 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005617
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PLoS ONE
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005617
ISSN
1932-6203
Type
Journal article
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© 2009 Al-Balas et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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The authors have no support or funding to report.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1908

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