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Creation and analysis of in-house database of pyrazine derivatives with potential antimicrobial activity
Kebakuile, Legae Gomolemo Boemo ; Zitko, Jan (advisor) ; Kučerová, Marta (referee)
In the early phases of drug design and development, scientists must overcome many challenges involved in identifying potential drug-like or lead-like compounds. This has led to the need of creating large sets of chemical data which will aid in improving the identification of pharmacophores and active compounds. Various scientific fields especially pharmacology, medicinal chemistry and biochemistry have begun to employ the use of computer sciences to aid in the screening for potential leads with more specificity with regards to drug-like compounds' or substances' bioactivity. The emphasis of this project was to create a database containing a collection of pyrazine compounds synthesized overtime in the Faculty of Pharmacy (Charles University, Hradec Kralove) with the aim of having anti-mycobacterium (and possible antibacterial and antifungal) activity, and further utilize this database to predict certain pharmacokinetic and bioavailability properties. This project seeks to demonstrate how certain molecular descriptors can be used as reliable chemoinformation to determine the likeliness or possibility of developing a lead-like or drug-like compound by utilizing computer software. An in-house database of 623 compounds saved in SMILES format was created and used in demonstrating quantitative...
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Derivatives of quinoxaline-2-carboxylic acid as potential antimicrobial compounds
Bouz, Sarah ; Zitko, Jan (advisor) ; Nováková, Veronika (referee)
(ENGLISH) Charles University Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Analysis Candidate: Sarah Basem Bouz Supervisor: PharmDr. Jan Zitko, Ph.D. Title of diploma thesis: Derivatives of quinoxaline-2-carboxylic acid as potential antimicrobial compounds Despite the presence of well-established treatment plan, tuberculosis remains the number one killer of infections according to WHO. One of the reasons behind this failure in eradicating this infection is drug resistance. This fact potentiates worldwide efforts to develop new antituberculars. As part of our long-term research on pyrazine derivatives, we prepared a series of N-substituted quinoxaline-2-carboxamides, refer to fig. below. Quinoxaline-2-carboxylic acid was activated by oxalyl chloride and reacted with different anilines or benzylamines in the presence of pyridine at room temperature, overnight with stirring, and then obtained crudes were purified with flash chromatography. Final products were evaluated for in vitro antimicrobial activities against six mycobacterial strains, eight fungal stems, along with four gram positive and four gram negative bacteria of clinical importance. The most promising compound among all with broad spectrum of antimycobacterial activity (MICMtbH37Ra = 3.91...
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Creation and analysis of in-house database of pyrazine derivatives with potential antimicrobial activity
Kebakuile, Legae Gomolemo Boemo ; Zitko, Jan (advisor) ; Kučerová, Marta (referee)
In the early phases of drug design and development, scientists must overcome many challenges involved in identifying potential drug-like or lead-like compounds. This has led to the need of creating large sets of chemical data which will aid in improving the identification of pharmacophores and active compounds. Various scientific fields especially pharmacology, medicinal chemistry and biochemistry have begun to employ the use of computer sciences to aid in the screening for potential leads with more specificity with regards to drug-like compounds' or substances' bioactivity. The emphasis of this project was to create a database containing a collection of pyrazine compounds synthesized overtime in the Faculty of Pharmacy (Charles University, Hradec Kralove) with the aim of having anti-mycobacterium (and possible antibacterial and antifungal) activity, and further utilize this database to predict certain pharmacokinetic and bioavailability properties. This project seeks to demonstrate how certain molecular descriptors can be used as reliable chemoinformation to determine the likeliness or possibility of developing a lead-like or drug-like compound by utilizing computer software. An in-house database of 623 compounds saved in SMILES format was created and used in demonstrating quantitative...
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