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  3. Synthesis of Leubethanol derivatives and evaluation against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Synthesis of Leubethanol derivatives and evaluation against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

  • Bioorg Med Chem. 2012 Jul 1;20(13):4155-63. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.04.059.
Jonathan Perez-Meseguer 1,  Esther Del Olmo,  Blanca Alanis-Garza,  Ricardo Escarcena,  Elvira Garza-González,  Ricardo Salazar-Aranda,  Arturo San Feliciano,  Noemí Waksman de Torres
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Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon, PO Box 2316, Sucursal Tecnológico, Monterrey, NL 64841, Mexico.
PMID: 22626551 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.04.059
Abstract

Twenty-five derivatives of the natural diterpene leubethanol, including several potential pro-drugs, with changes in the functionality of the aliphatic chain or modifications of the phenolic group, were synthesized and tested in vitro by the MABA technique for their activity against the H37Rv strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Several compounds showed antimycobacterial potencies similar to that of the lead compound and two of them displayed higher selectivity indexes.

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