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Publication Abstract from PubMed

3-Dehydroquinase, the third enzyme in the shikimate pathway, is a potential target for drugs against tuberculosis. Whilst a number of potent inhibitors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis enzyme based on a 3-dehydroquinate core have been identified, they generally show little or no in vivo activity, and were synthetically complex to prepare. This report describes studies to develop tractable and drug-like aromatic analogues of the most potent inhibitors. A range of carbon-carbon linked biaryl analogues were prepared to investigate the effect of hydrogen bond acceptor and donor patterns on inhibition. These exhibited inhibitory activity in the high-micromolar range. The addition of flexible linkers in the compounds led to the identification of more potent 3-nitrobenzylgallate- and 5-aminoisophthalate-based analogues.

Design and Structural Analysis of Aromatic Inhibitors of Type II Dehydroquinase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.,Howard NI, Dias MV, Peyrot F, Chen L, Schmidt MF, Blundell TL, Abell C ChemMedChem. 2015 Jan;10(1):116-33. doi: 10.1002/cmdc.201402298. Epub 2014 Sep, 18. PMID:25234229^[1]

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