Bisbenzamidines as antifungal agents. are both amidine functions required to observe an anti-Pneumocystis carinii activity? 2010

Julien Laurent, and Dimitri Stanicki, and Tien L Huang, and Eduardo Dei-Cas, and Muriel Pottier, and El Mouktar Aliouat, and Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde
Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Mons-UMONS, 20 place du parc, B-7000 Mons, Belgium.

A library of 19 novel 4-(4-phenylpiperazine-1-yl)benzamidines has been synthesized and evaluated in vitro against Pneumocystis carinii. Among these compounds, N-ethyl- and N-hexyl-4-(4-phenylpiperazine-1-yl)benzamidines emerged as the most promising compounds, with inhibition percentages at 10.0 microg/mL of 87% and 96%, respectively. Those compounds remained active at 0.1 microg/mL.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D000935 Antifungal Agents Substances that destroy fungi by suppressing their ability to grow or reproduce. They differ from FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL because they defend against fungi present in human or animal tissues. Anti-Fungal Agents,Antifungal Agent,Fungicides, Therapeutic,Antibiotics, Antifungal,Therapeutic Fungicides,Agent, Antifungal,Anti Fungal Agents,Antifungal Antibiotics
D001550 Benzamidines Amidines substituted with a benzene group. Benzamidine and its derivatives are known as peptidase inhibitors.
D015394 Molecular Structure The location of the atoms, groups or ions relative to one another in a molecule, as well as the number, type and location of covalent bonds. Structure, Molecular,Molecular Structures,Structures, Molecular
D045363 Pneumocystis carinii The prototype species of PNEUMOCYSTIS infecting the laboratory rat. It was formerly called Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. carinii. Strains that infect humans and cause PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA were originally classified as Pneumocystis jirovecii or Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis. Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. carinii,Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis,Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. ratti,Pneumocystis jirovecii,Pneumocystis carini,Pneumocystis jiroveci

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