Design, synthesis and in vitro evaluation of pyridinium ion based cyclase inhibitors and antifungal agents
β Scribed by Ingo C. Rose; Bradley A. Sharpe; Roger C. Lee; John H. Griffin; John O. Capobianco; Dorothy Zakula; Robert C. Goldman
- Book ID
- 103992196
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 619 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0968-0896
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β¦ Synopsis
The design, synthesis and in vitro biological evaluation of pyridinium ion based inhibitors of oxidosqualene cyclase enzymes are reported. N-Alkyland N-prenylpyridinium ions have been found to be potent and specific inhibitors of Candida albicans oxidosqualene-lanosterol cyclase and to exhibit antifungal activity. The ability of pyridinium ions to inhibit the C. albicans cyclase increases with increasing structural resemblance to a putative monocyclized species formed during the course of the cyclization process. The N-(4E,8E)-5,9,13-trimethyl-4,8,12-tetradecatrien-l-ylpyridinium cation 1 inhibits the C. albicans enzyme at concentrations more than 100-fold lower than does the directly analogous piperidinium derivative 4.
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