Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of 2-Phenoxyalkylhydrazide Benzoxazole Derivatives as Quorum Sensing Inhibitors with Strong Antibiofilm Effect. 2024

Panpan Zhang, and Yangchun Ma, and Yingmei Wang, and Enhui Dong, and Shutao Ma
Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, 44 West Culture Road, Jinan 250012, China.

With the increasing problem of bacterial resistance to traditional antibiotics, there is an urgent need for new antibacterial agents with novel mechanisms to treat infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria. In this paper, we designed and synthesized 2-phenoxyalkylhydrazide benzoxazole derivatives and evaluated their quorum sensing inhibition activity. Among them, 26c at a concentration of 102.4 μg/mL not only inhibited the production of pyocyanin and rhamnolipid by 45.6% and 38.3%, respectively, but also suppressed 76.6% of biofilm production at 32 μg/mL. In addition, 26c did not affect bacterial growth, but in a mouse model infected with P. aeruginosa PAO1, it could help ciprofloxacin effectively eliminate the living bacteria. In the targeting experiment, 26c could inhibit the fluorescence intensity of PAO1-lasB-gfp and PAO1-pqsA-gfp in a concentration-dependent manner, indicating that the compound acts on the quorum sensing system. Overall, 26c is worthy of further investigation as a quorum sensing inhibitor with strong antibiofilm effect.

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