Title
The Medicinal Chemistry of Chalcones as Anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis Agents
Date Issued
01 September 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Bentham Science Publishers
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB), a highly fatal infectious disease, is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that has inflicted mankind for several centuries. In 2019, the staggering number of new cases reached 10 million resulting in 1.2 million deaths. The emergence of multidrug-resistanceMycobacterium tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant-Mycobacterium tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a global concern that requires the search for novel, effective, and safer short-term therapies. Nowadays, among the few alternatives available to treat resistant-Mtb strains, the majority have limitations, which include drug-drug interactions, long-term treatment, and chronic induced toxicities. Therefore, it is mandatory to develop new anti-Mtb agents to achieve health policy goals to mitigate the disease by 2035. Among the several bioactive anti-Mtb compounds, chalcones have been described as the privileged scaffold useful for drug design. Overall, this review explores and analyzes 37 chalcones that exhibited anti-Mtb activity described in the literature up to April 2021 with minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC90) values inferior to 20 µM and selective index superior to 10. In addition, the correlation of some properties for most active compounds was evaluated, and the main targets for these compounds were discussed.
Start page
2068
End page
2080
Volume
22
Issue
16
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Métodos de investigación bioquímica Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85137881204
PubMed ID
Source
Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry
ISSN of the container
13895575
Sponsor(s)
This study was supported by Consejo Nacional de Cien-cia y Tecnología/FONDECYT Perú y el Banco Mundial (Contract n° 07-2018-FONDECYT-BM-PDAEG-UNT) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP grants 2020/13279-7). This study was financed in part by the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científi-co e Tecnológico (CNPq 430172/2018-4). J.L.S. is CNPq productivity fellows’ level 2 (CNPq Ref. Process: 302689/2020-6).
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