Affiliations 

  • 1 College of Natural Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Kongju National University, Gongju 32588, South Korea; Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan. Electronic address: abbasi@gcu.edu.pk
  • 2 College of Natural Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Kongju National University, Gongju 32588, South Korea
  • 3 Department of Chemistry, Government College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
  • 4 Faculty of Pharmacy and Atta-ur-Rahman Institute for Natural Products Discovery (AuRIns), Level 9, FF3, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam Campus, 42300 Bandar Puncak Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
  • 5 College of Natural Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Kongju National University, Gongju 32588, South Korea. Electronic address: dnalove@kongju.ac.kr
Bioorg Chem, 2019 03;83:63-75.
PMID: 30342387 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.10.018

Abstract

Present work aimed to synthesize some unique bi-heterocyclic benzamides as lead compounds for the in vitro inhibition of urease enzyme, followed by in silico studies. These targeted benzamides were synthesized in good yields through a multi-step protocol and their structures were confirmed by IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, EI-MS and elemental analysis. The in vitro screening results showed that most of the ligands exhibited good inhibitory potentials against the urease. Chemo-informatics analysis envisaged that all these compounds obeyed the Lipinski's rule. Molecular docking results showed that 7h exhibited good binding energy value (-8.40 kcal/mol) and was bound within the active region of urease enzyme. From the present investigation, it was inferred that some of these potent urease inhibitors might serve as novel templates in drug designing.

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