Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Instituto Académico Pedagógico de Ciencias Básicas y Aplicadas, Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina.
Arch Pharm (Weinheim). 2022 Mar;355(3):e2100432. doi: 10.1002/ardp.202100432. Epub 2021 Dec 26.
Neglected tropical diseases are a major health problem throughout the world, and there are few effective and safe drugs. In this study, we report the design and synthesis of a novel series of carbonates of eugenol using different aliphatic alcohols and N,N-carbonyldiimidazole. Spectroscopic techniques, including H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), C NMR, Fourier transform infrared, and high-resolution mass spectrometry, were used to confirm the structures of the synthesized compounds. In vitro and in silico studies of prodrugs of eugenol were performed to determine their antiplasmodial, trypanocidal, and leishmanicidal activities, and also their cytotoxicity. Compounds were highly active against Leishmania braziliensis and Plasmodium falciparum, whereas the activity shown for Trypanosoma cruzi was moderate. Molecular docking was used to determine a possible mode of action of eugenol against the dihydroorotate dehydrogenase of the three parasites (TcDHODH, LbDHODH, and PfDHODH). Notably, the docking results showed that eugenol not only has binding energy similar to that of the natural substrate (-7.2 and -7.1, respectively) but also has interactions with relevant biological residues of PfDHODH. This result indicates that eugenol could act as a substrate for PfDHODH in the pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway of P. falciparum. In conclusion, the combination of certain aliphatic alcohols and eugenol through a carbonate bond could significantly increase the antiparasitic activity of this class of compounds, which merits further studies.
被忽视的热带病是全世界的一个主要健康问题,而且有效的治疗药物寥寥无几。在这项研究中,我们报告了一系列使用不同脂肪醇和 N,N-羰基二咪唑合成的丁香酚碳酸酯的设计和合成。使用包括 H 核磁共振(NMR)、C 核磁共振、傅里叶变换红外和高分辨率质谱在内的光谱技术来确认所合成化合物的结构。对丁香酚前药进行了体外和计算机模拟研究,以确定它们的抗疟原虫、杀锥虫和杀利什曼原虫活性以及细胞毒性。这些化合物对巴西利什曼原虫和恶性疟原虫具有高度活性,而对克氏锥虫的活性则适中。分子对接用于确定丁香酚对三种寄生虫(TcDHODH、LbDHODH 和 PfDHODH)二氢乳清酸脱氢酶的可能作用模式。值得注意的是,对接结果表明,丁香酚不仅具有与天然底物相似的结合能(分别为-7.2 和-7.1),而且与 PfDHODH 的相关生物残基相互作用。这一结果表明,丁香酚可能在恶性疟原虫的嘧啶生物合成途径中充当 PfDHODH 的底物。总之,通过碳酸酯键将某些脂肪醇与丁香酚结合可以显著提高这类化合物的抗寄生虫活性,值得进一步研究。
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