The prevalence of bacterial resistance is increasing, which is why the treatment of bacterial infections currently represents one of the greatest challenges in medicine. Therefore, continuous discovery of new approaches to overcome bacterial resistance is of great importance. DNA gyrase and topoisomerase IV are interesting targets for antibacterial drug discovery. Because of their structural similarities, we can design dual targeting inhibitors, which reduces the probability for target-based resistance development. The main barrier for the penetration of bacterial drugs into the bacterial cytoplasm is the bacterial cell wall. One possible strategy to overcome this issue is the use of the Trojan horse approach, in which drug, linked to a siderophore mimetic, is transported into the bacteria. Conjugates that work on the Trojan horse principle consist of a siderophore mimetic, linker and DNA gyrase inhibitor.
In the context of this thesis we synthesized new inhibitors of DNA gyrase B that differentiate in linker between DNA gyrase inhibitor and siderophore mimetic. As linkers we used three different amino acids: ?-alanine, L-valine in L-alanine. Inhibitors were based on the (S)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzo[d]thiazol-2,6-diamine scaffold with attached 3,4-dichloro-5-methylpyrrole ring. The siderophore mimetic was the 3-hydroxypyridin-4(1H)-one. We managed to synthesize three final compounds 5, 10 and 14, which we tested for their Escherichia coli DNA gyrase inhibition. The IC50 values for all three analogues were between 260 and 640 nM. We determined antibacterial activity for all three compounds against Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and on two E. coli mutants. In general, all of them displayed weak antibacterial activity. Conjugate 14 showed the highest rate (83%) of bacterial growth inhibition of the mutated E. coli strain. We also tested final compounds against Acinetobacter baumannii in iron-depleted conditions, but the inhibitory effect did not increase compared to the iron-supplemented media. The results of this Master's thesis provide important information about the structure-activity relationship and therefore the basis for further optimization of DNA gyrase inhibitors and their conjugates with siderophores.
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