Antibacterial drugs are one of the most common prescribed and used drugs. Long-term, to common and reckless antibiotic use is the reason of the bacterial resistance appearance and effectiveness decrease up to now existing antibacterial drugs. Due to the developing resistance, there is a need to research new targets and develop new drugs. One of the newest antibacterial drugs are so-called novel bacterial topoisomerase inhibitors (NBTIs). They are inhibitors of bacterial DNA gyrase. DNA gyrase is essential enzyme, that control and maintain the topological state of the DNA in the cell. It has the ability to introduce negative supercoils into DNA in the presence of ATP. By binding NBTI in active site of the enzyme, we inhibit DNA gyrase and disable DNA translation and transcription. NBTIs are composed of 3 parts: bicyclic left-hand side (LHS), the linker and an aromatic right-hand side (RHS).
Within the framework of the master's degree we focused on the synthesis of novel DNA Gyrase A inhibitors with 1,5-naphthyridine scaffold. We kept left side and the linker and changed just the right side, that binds to the GyrA subunits. Our work system consists of two parts. First, we have synthesized and evaluated one series of compounds. In the next step the optimization of the most potent compound from the first series has followed. The second series was designed to reach the presumable halogen interaction, which we deemed important based on docking results. We wanted to prove, that with introduction of halogens we can reach more potent compounds because of additional halogen interaction.
We have evaluated compound’s potency by determining their IC50 that is a measure of the potency of active substance and represent the concentration of the active substance, that decrease enzyme activity on 50% the highest activity of DNA gyrase and MIC, that is minimal inhibitory concentration and present the lowest concentration of active substance, that inhibit grow of bacterium. Biological assays confirmed our hypothesis. In case of halogen on para position, were decreasing IC50 and MIC values by homologues row. We can assume, that halogen bond between halogen atom and enzyme oxygen is responsible for the increased potency.
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