Bekker Olga B, Galanova Olesya O, Vatlin Aleksey A, Frolova Svetlana G, Shitikov Egor A, Bespiatykh Dmitry A, Klimina Ksenia M, Veselovsky Vladimir A, Ilyasov Rustem A, Smirnova Svetlana V, Reznikova Diana A, Kochetkov Nikita I, Maslov Dmitry A, Danilenko Valery N
Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333 Moscow, Russia.
Moscow Center for Advanced Studies, 123592 Moscow, Russia.
Int J Mol Sci. 2025 Apr 14;26(8):3689. doi: 10.3390/ijms26083689.
In 2022, the World Health Organization reported that tuberculosis (TB) was the second leading cause of death globally from a single infectious agent following COVID-19. The development of new antitubercular agents with novel mechanisms of action for use in complex TB therapy is considered a key approach to combating TB. In this study, we examined the gene expression profile of when exposed to a promising antituberculosis agent, quinoxaline 1,4-dioxide (QdNO) 7-chloro-2-(ethoxycarbonyl)-3-methyl-6-(piperazin-1-yl)quinoxaline-1,4-dioxide-1 (LCTA-3368). We investigated how the bacterial response changed with different minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) (1/4 × MIC, 1/2 × MIC, and 1 × MIC) and durations (30 min and 90 min) of treatment with the drug. Our analysis revealed significant upregulation in genes involved in DNA repair and replication processes, as well as changes in the expression of 95 genes encoding proteins with oxidoreductase activity. We additionally showed that the concentration of reactive oxygen species increases in a dose-dependent manner upon exposure of to LCTA-3368. These findings support the proposed mechanism of antibacterial action of QdNOs, which is associated with the formation of free radicals leading to DNA damage.
2022年,世界卫生组织报告称,结核病是继新冠病毒之后全球单一传染源导致死亡的第二大原因。开发具有新型作用机制的新型抗结核药物用于复杂的结核病治疗被认为是对抗结核病的关键途径。在本研究中,我们检测了 暴露于一种有前景的抗结核药物喹喔啉1,4 - 二氧化物(QdNO)7 - 氯 - 2 - (乙氧羰基) - 3 - 甲基 - 6 - (哌嗪 - 1 - 基)喹喔啉 - 1,4 - 二氧化物 - 1(LCTA - 3368)时的基因表达谱。我们研究了细菌在不同最低抑菌浓度(MIC)(1/4×MIC、1/2×MIC和1×MIC)以及不同药物处理时长(30分钟和90分钟)下的反应变化情况。我们的分析揭示了参与DNA修复和复制过程的基因显著上调,以及95个编码具有氧化还原酶活性蛋白质的基因表达发生了变化。我们还表明, 暴露于LCTA - 3368后,活性氧物种的浓度呈剂量依赖性增加。这些发现支持了QdNOs的抗菌作用机制,即与导致DNA损伤的自由基形成有关。