Discovery of 1,3,4-oxadiazoles with slow-action activity against Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites.
Eur J Med Chem
; 278: 116796, 2024 Nov 15.
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ABSTRACT
To achieve malaria eradication, new preventative agents that act differently to front-line treatment drugs are needed. To identify potential chemoprevention starting points we screened a sub-set of the CSIRO Australia Compound Collection for compounds with slow-action in vitro activity against Plasmodium falciparum. This work identified N,N-dialkyl-5-alkylsulfonyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-amines as a new antiplasmodial chemotype (e.g., 1 96 h IC50 550 nM; 3 96 h IC50 160 nM) with a different action to delayed-death slow-action drugs. A series of analogues were synthesized from thiotetrazoles and carbomoyl derivatives using Huisgen 1,3,4-oxadiazole synthesis followed by oxidation of the resultant thioethers to target sulfones. Structure activity relationship analysis of analogues identified compounds with potent and selective in vitro activity against drug-sensitive and multi-drug resistant Plasmodium parasites (e.g., 31 and 32 96 h IC50 <40 nM; SI > 2500). Subsequent studies in mice with compound 1, which had the best microsomal stability of the compounds assessed (T1/2 >255 min), demonstrated rapid clearance and poor oral in vivo efficacy in a P. berghei murine malaria model. These data indicate that while N,N-dialkyl-5-alkylsulfonyl-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-amines are a novel class of slow-acting antiplasmodial agents, the further development of this chemotype for malaria chemoprophylaxis will require pharmacokinetic profile improvements.
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Oxidiazóis
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Plasmodium falciparum
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Antimaláricos
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Animals
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Humans
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2024
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