A small-molecular inhibitor against Proteus mirabilis urease to treat catheter-associated urinary tract infections

S Milo, RA Heylen, J Glancy, GT Williams… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Infection and blockage of indwelling urinary catheters is significant owing to its high
incidence rate and severe medical consequences. Bacterial enzymes are employed as …

Semi-quantitative assay to measure urease activity by urinary catheter-associated Uropathogens

JM Duran Ramirez, J Gomez… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are one of the most common
healthcare-associated infections in the US, accounting for over 1 million cases annually and …

N-acetylcysteine prevents catheter occlusion and inflammation in catheter associated-urinary tract infections by suppressing urease activity

A Manoharan, J Farrell, VR Aldilla… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Proteus mirabilis is a key pathobiont in catheter-associated urinary tract
infections (CA-UTIs), which is well known to form crystalline biofilms that occlude catheters …

Metallochaperone UreG serves as a new target for design of urease inhibitor: a novel strategy for development of antimicrobials

X Yang, M Koohi-Moghadam, R Wang, YY Chang… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Urease as a potential target of antimicrobial drugs has received considerable attention given
its versatile roles in microbial infection. Development of effective urease inhibitors, however …

Identification of novel urease inhibitors by high-throughput virtual and in vitro screening

OR Abid, TM Babar, FI Ali, S Ahmed… - ACS Medicinal …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Ureases are important in both agriculture and human health. Bacterial ureases are directly
involved in many farm-field problems and pathological conditions. Here, we report a …

Arylmethylene hydrazine derivatives containing 1, 3-dimethylbarbituric moiety as novel urease inhibitors

K Pedrood, H Azizian, MN Montazer… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
A new series of arylmethylene hydrazine derivatives bearing 1, 3-dimethylbarbituric moiety
7a–o were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for their in vitro urease inhibitory activity …

Design, synthesis, in vitro evaluation and docking studies on dihydropyrimidine-based urease inhibitors

F Iftikhar, Y Ali, FA Kiani, SF Hassan, T Fatima… - Bioorganic …, 2017 - Elsevier
In our previous report, we have identified 3, 4-dihydropyrimidine scaffold as promising class
of urease inhibitor in a structure based virtual screen (SBVS) experiment. In present study …

Identification of novel bacterial urease inhibitors through molecular shape and structure based virtual screening approaches

M Imran, S Waqar, K Ogata, M Ahmed, Z Noreen… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The enzyme urease is an essential colonizing factor of the notorious carcinogenic pathogen
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), conferring acid resistance to the bacterium. Recently …

Exploration of thiourea-based scaffolds for the construction of bacterial ureases inhibitors

W Tabor, A Katsogiannou, D Karta… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A series of 32 thiourea-based urease inhibitors were synthesized and evaluated against
native bacterial enzyme and whole cells of Sporosarcina pasteurii and Proteus mirabilis …

Novel phenylurea-pyridinium derivatives as potent urease inhibitors: Synthesis, in vitro, and in silico studies

SE Sadat-Ebrahimi, A Bigdelou, RH Sooreshjani… - Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urease is known as a virulence factor of some pathogen in the living organism. In this study,
a novel series of phenylurea conjugated to different alkyl pyridinium were designed …