Scott Grossman
Novel quinazolinone inhibitors of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing transcriptional regulator PqsR
Grossman, Scott; Soukarieh, Fadi; Richardson, William; Liu, Ruiling; Mashabi, Alaa; Emsley, Jonas; Williams, Paul; C�mara, Miguel; Stocks, Michael J.
Authors
FADI SOUKARIEH Fadi.Soukarieh@nottingham.ac.uk
Research Fellow
William Richardson
Ruiling Liu
Alaa Mashabi
prof JONAS EMSLEY jonas.emsley@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Macromolecular Crystallography
PAUL WILLIAMS PAUL.WILLIAMS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Molecular Microbiology
MIGUEL CAMARA MIGUEL.CAMARA@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Molecular Microbiology
MICHAEL STOCKS MICHAEL.STOCKS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery
Abstract
© 2020 The Authors Rising numbers of cases of multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa over recent years have created an urgent need for novel therapeutic approaches to cure potentially fatal infections. One such approach is virulence attenuation where anti-virulence compounds, designed to reduce pathogenicity without affording bactericidal effects, are employed to treat infections. P. aeruginosa uses the pqs quorum sensing (QS) system, to coordinate the expression of a large number of virulence determinants as well as bacterial-host interactions and hence represents an excellent anti-virulence target. We report the synthesis and identification of a new series of thiazole-containing quinazolinones capable of inhibiting PqsR, the transcriptional regulator of the pqs QS system. The compounds demonstrated high potency (IC50 < 300 nM) in a whole-cell assay, using a mCTX:PpqsA-lux-based bioreporter for the P. aeruginosa PAO1-L and PA14 strains. Structural evaluation defined the binding modes of four analogues in the ligand-binding domain of PqsR through X-ray crystallography. Further work showed the ability of 6-chloro-3((2-pentylthiazol-4-yl)methyl)quinazolin-4(3H)-one (18) and 6-chloro-3((2-hexylthiazol-4-yl)methyl)quinazolin-4(3H)-one (19) to attenuate production of the PqsR-regulated virulence factor pyocyanin. Compounds 18 and 19 showed a low cytotoxic profile in the A549 human epithelial lung cell line making them suitable candidates for further pre-clinical evaluation.
Citation
Grossman, S., Soukarieh, F., Richardson, W., Liu, R., Mashabi, A., Emsley, J., …Stocks, M. J. (2020). Novel quinazolinone inhibitors of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing transcriptional regulator PqsR. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 208, Article 112778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112778
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 20, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 28, 2020 |
Publication Date | Dec 15, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Sep 8, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 29, 2021 |
Journal | European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry |
Print ISSN | 0223-5234 |
Electronic ISSN | 1768-3254 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 208 |
Article Number | 112778 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112778 |
Keywords | Organic Chemistry; Pharmacology; Drug Discovery; General Medicine |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4890073 |
Publisher URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0223523420307509 |
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