Shahzad Shabnam, Qadir Muhammad Abdul, Ahmed Mahmood, Ahmad Saghir, Khan Muhammad Jadoon, Gulzar Asad, Muddassar Muhammad
Institute of Chemistry, University of the Punjab Lahore-54590 Pakistan.
Renacon Pharma Limited Lahore-54600 Pakistan
RSC Adv. 2020 Nov 25;10(70):42983-42992. doi: 10.1039/d0ra09051d. eCollection 2020 Nov 23.
Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) inhibitors, as antibacterial agents, contain pyrimidine, pteridine, and azine moieties among many other scaffolds. Folic acid (FA), with a pteridine ring and amine group, was used as our focus scaffold, which was then conjugated with sulfonamides to develop new conjugates. The novel synthesized conjugates were characterized using infrared spectroscopy, and H and C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectral studies and consequently screened for antimicrobial activities against bacterial strains with ampicillin as a positive control. Compound DS2 has the highest zone of inhibition (36.6 mm) with a percentage activity index (%AI) value of 122.8% against and a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 15.63 μg mL. DHFR enzyme inhibition was also evaluated using the synthesized conjugates through studies, and inhibition assays revealed that compound DS2 exhibited a 75.4 ± 0.12% (mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM)) inhibition, which is comparable with the standard DHFR inhibitor trimethoprim (74.6 ± 0.09%). The compounds attached to the unsubstituted aryl moiety of the sulfonamides revealed better inhibition against the bacterial strains as compared to the methyl substituted aryl sulfonamides. Molecular docking studies of the novel synthesized conjugates were also performed on the DHFR enzyme to identify the plausible binding modes to explore the binding mechanisms of these conjugates.
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