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Aminophenyl chalcones potentiating antibiotic activity and inhibiting bacterial efflux pump

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Chalcones and their derivatives are substances of great interest for medicinal chemistry due to their antibacterial activities. As the bacterial resistance to clinically available antibiotics has become a worldwide public health problem, it is essential to search for compounds capable of reverting the bacterial resistance. As a possibility, the chalcone class could be an interesting answer to this problem. The chalcones (2E)-1-(4 '-aminophenyl)-3-(phenyl)-prop-2-en-1-one (APCHAL), and (2E)-1-(4 '-aminophenyl)-3-(4-chlorophenyl)-prop-2-en-1-one (ACLOPHENYL) were synthesized by the Claisen-Schmidt condensation and characterized by H-1 and C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR), and mass spectrometry (MS), In addition, microbiological tests were performed to investigate the antibacterial activity, modulatory potential, and efflux pump inhibition against Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) multi-resistant strains. Regarding the S. aureus Grampositive model, the APCHAL presented synergism with gentamicin and antagonism with penicillin. APCHAL reduced the Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of gentamicin by almost 70%. When comparing the effects of the antibiotic modifying activity of ACLOPHENYL and APCHAL, a loss of synergism is noted with gentamicin due to the addition of a chlorine to the substance structure. For Escherichia coli (E. coli) a total lack of effect, synergistic or antagonistic, was observed between ACLOPHENYL and the antibiotics. In the evaluation of inhibition of the efflux pump, both chalcones presented a synergistic effect with norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin against S. aureus, although the effect is much less pronounced with ACLOPHENYL. The effect of APCHAL is particularly notable against the K2068 (MepA overexpresser) strain, with synergistic effects with both ciprofloxacin and ethidium bromide. The docking results also show that both compounds bind to roughly the same region of the binding site of 1199B (NorA overexpresser), and that this region overlaps with the preferred binding region of norfloxacin. The APCHAL chalcone may contribute to the prevention or treatment of infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant S. aureus.

Antimicrobial activityAntibiotic potentiating activityEfflux pumpDocking

Siqueira, Marina Micaele Rodrigues、Freire, Paulo de Tarso Cavalcante、Cruz, Beatriz Goncalves、de Freitas, Thiago Sampaio、Bandeira, Paulo Nogueira、dos Santos, Helcio Silva、Nogueira, Carlos Emidio Sampaio、Teixeira, Alexandre Magno Rodrigues、Pereira, Raimundo Luiz Silva、Xavier, Jayze da Cunha、Campina, Fabia Ferreira、Barbosa, Cristina Rodrigues dos Santos、Neto, Jose Bezerra de Araujo、da Silva, Maria Milene Costa、Siqueira-Junior, Jose Pinto、Coutinho, Henrique Douglas Melo

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Reg Univ Cariri, Dept Biol Chem, Crato, CE, Brazil

State Univ Vale Acarau, Ctr Sci & Technol, Course Chem, Sobral, CE, Brazil

2021

European journal of pharmaceutical sciences

European journal of pharmaceutical sciences

ISTP
ISSN:0928-0987
年,卷(期):2021.158
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