From antibacterial to antibiofilm targeting: an emerging paradigm shift in the development of quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs)

EA Saverina, NA Frolov, OA Kamanina… - ACS Infectious …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In a previous development stage, mostly individual antibacterial activity was a target in the
optimization of biologically active compounds and antiseptic agents. Although this targeting …

Quinolines, a perpetual, multipurpose scaffold in medicinal chemistry

P Yadav, K Shah - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Quinoline is a versatile pharmacophore, a privileged scaffold and an outstanding fused
heterocyclic compound with a wide range of pharmacological prospective such as …

Antibacterial quaternary ammonium agents: Chemical diversity and biological mechanism

W Dan, J Gao, X Qi, J Wang, J Dai - European journal of medicinal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bacterial infections have seriously threatened public health especially with the increasing
resistance and the cliff-like decline of the number of newly approved antibacterial agents …

Discovery of Quaternized Pyridine-Thiazole-Pleuromutilin derivatives with broad-spectrum antibacterial and potent Anti-MRSA activity

J Xia, L Xin, J Li, L Tian, K Wu, S Zhang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The quaternization of compounds has emerged as a promising molecular design strategy for
the development of antibiotics. Herein, we report the design, synthesis, antibacterial …

Current scenario of quinolone hybrids with potential antibacterial activity against ESKAPE pathogens

J Gao, H Hou, F Gao - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The ESKAPE (Escherichia coli/E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus/S. aureus, Klebsiella
pneumonia/K. pneumoniae, Acinetobacter Baumannii/A. baumannii, Pseudomonas …

Recent advances in the synthetic and medicinal perspective of quinolones: A review

P Dhiman, N Arora, PV Thanikachalam, V Monga - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
In the modern scenario, the quinolone scaffold has emerged as a very potent motif
considering its clinical significance. Quinolones possess wide range of pharmacological …

Membrane active 7-thiazoxime quinolones as novel DNA binding agents to decrease the genes expression and exert potent anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus …

JP Chen, N Battini, MF Ansari, CH Zhou - European Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel class of 7-thiazoxime quinolones was developed as potential antimicrobial agents
for the sake of bypassing resistance of quinolones. Biological assays revealed that some …

The antibacterial activity of fluoroquinolone derivatives: An update (2018–2021)

Y Jia, L Zhao - European journal of medicinal chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Bacterial infection is amongst the most common diseases in community and hospital
settings. Fluoroquinolones, exerting the antibacterial activity through binding to type II …

DNA Gyrase as a Target for Quinolones

AC Spencer, SS Panda - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Bacterial DNA gyrase is a type II topoisomerase that can introduce negative supercoils to
DNA substrates and is a clinically-relevant target for the development of new antibacterials …

Recent update on antibacterial and antifungal activity of quinoline scaffolds

A Dorababu - Archiv der Pharmazie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although most of the heterocycles have been reported to possess a significant
pharmacological activity, only a few of them, namely quinoline derivatives, have exhibited …