New sulfonamides 5/6 derived from 4-methoxyacetophenone 1 were synthesized by N-sulfonation reaction of ammonia (3) and aminopyrimidinone (4) with its sulfonyl chloride derivative 2. Sulfonamides 5 and 6 were used as precursors of two new series of chalcones 8a-f and 9a-f, which were obtained through Claisen-Schmidt condensation with aromatic aldehydes 7a-f. Compounds 5/6, 8a-d, 8f, 9a-d, and 9f were screened by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 10 μM against sixty different human cancer cell lines (one-dose trial). Chalcones 8b and 9b satisfied the pre-determined threshold inhibition criteria and were selected for screening at five different concentrations (100, 10, 1.0, 0.1, and 0.01 μM). Compound 8b exhibited remarkable GI50 values ranging from 0.57 to 12.4 μM, with cytotoxic effects being observed in almost all cases, especially against the cell lines K-562 of Leukemia and LOX IMVI of Melanoma with GI50 = 0.57 and 1.28 μM, respectively. Moreover, all compounds were screened against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, chalcones 8a-c and 9a-c were the most active showing MIC values between 14 and 42 μM, and interestingly they were devoid of antibacterial activity against Mycobacterium smegmatis and Staphylococcus aureus. These antituberculosis hits showed however low selectivity, being equally inhibitory to M. tuberculosis and mammalian T3T cells. The chalcone-sulfonamide hybrids 8a-f and 9a-f resulted to be appealing cytotoxic agents with significant antituberculosis activity.

• Klíčová slova
• Antibacterial, Anticancer, Antituberculosis, Chalcones, Sulfonamides,
• MeSH
• antituberkulotika chemická syntéza   chemie   farmakologie   toxicita   MeSH
• antitumorózní látky chemická syntéza   chemie   farmakologie   toxicita   MeSH
• buňky 3T3 MeSH
• chalkonoidy chemická syntéza   chemie   farmakologie   toxicita   MeSH
• léky antitumorózní - screeningové testy MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mikrobiální testy citlivosti MeSH
• molekulární struktura MeSH
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis účinky léků   MeSH
• myši MeSH
• nádorové buněčné linie MeSH
• sulfonamidy chemická syntéza   chemie   farmakologie   toxicita   MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• myši MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Názvy látek
• antituberkulotika MeSH
• antitumorózní látky MeSH
• chalkonoidy MeSH
• sulfonamidy MeSH

Infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and invasive mycoses, represent serious health problems. As a part of our long-term efforts to find new agents for the treatment of these diseases, a new series of pyrazine analogs of chalcones bearing an isopropyl group in position 5 of the pyrazine ring was prepared. The structures of the compounds were corroborated by IR and NMR spectroscopy and their purity confirmed by elemental analysis. The susceptibility of eight fungal strains to the studied compounds was tested. The results have been compared with the activity of some previously reported propyl derivatives. The only strain that was susceptible to the studied compounds was Trichophyton mentagrophytes. It was found that replacing a non-branched propyl with a branched isopropyl did not have a decisive and unequivocal influence on the in vitro antifungal activity against T. mentagrophytes. In vitro activity against Trichophyton mentagrophytes comparable with that of fluconazole was exhibited by nitro-substituted derivatives. Unfortunately, no compound exhibited efficacy comparable with that of terbinafine, which is the most widely used agent for treating mycoses caused by dermatophytes. Some of the prepared compounds were assayed for antimycobacterial activity against M. tuberculosis H37Rv. The highest potency was also displayed by nitro-substituted compounds. The results of the present study are in a good agreement with our previous findings and confirm the positive influence of electron-withdrawing groups on the B-ring of chalcones on the antifungal and antimycobacterial activity of these compounds.

• MeSH
• antifungální látky chemická syntéza   chemie   farmakologie   MeSH
• antituberkulotika chemická syntéza   chemie   farmakologie   MeSH
• Cercopithecus aethiops MeSH
• chalkonoidy chemická syntéza   chemie   farmakologie   MeSH
• houby klasifikace   účinky léků   MeSH
• magnetická rezonanční spektroskopie s uhlíkem 13C MeSH
• mikrobiální testy citlivosti MeSH
• molekulární struktura MeSH
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis účinky léků   MeSH
• protonová magnetická rezonanční spektroskopie MeSH
• pyraziny chemie   MeSH
• spektrofotometrie infračervená MeSH
• Vero buňky MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Názvy látek
• antifungální látky MeSH
• antituberkulotika MeSH
• chalkonoidy MeSH
• pyraziny MeSH