Design, Synthesis and Activity of New Polymyxins †
by
, and
Francesc Rabanal
1,*
,
Roser Segovia
1, 
Aina Coll
1,
Judith Solé
1,
Maria Garcia-Subirats
1,
Angeles Manresa
2 and
Yolanda Cajal
3,4 1
Section of Organic Chemistry, Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
2
Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain
3
Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technology and Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
4
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
Presented at the 1st Molecules Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, Barcelona, Spain, 8 September 2017.
Proceedings 2017, 1(6), 662; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1060662
Published: 20 October 2017
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Proceedings of the 1st Molecules Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, Barcelona, Spain)
Antibiotic resistance is a daunting challenge for public health systems worldwide. A major goal to fight resistant bacteria involves the design, discovery and development of new antibiotics, particularly against multi-drug-resistant strains. Currently, there is renewed interest in polymyxins, an old class of antimicrobial cyclic lipopeptides, highly potent against therapeutically relevant Gram-negative bacteria. Polymyxins are now used as last resort antibiotics in hospitals because of their nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity that requires careful monitoring of the patient. Our group has embarked on a project to design and develop new polymyxins devoid of toxicity problems using a versatile and chemically accessible scaffold structure [1,2]. Compounds show excellent activity against Gram-negative bacteria. Synergistic and antibiofilm activities have also been recently described in combination with imipenem [3]. Herein, the latest results of our recently designed polymyxin analogs will be presented.
Acknowledgments
The research was supported by the University of Barcelona, Fundació Bosch i Gimpera, Xarxa de Referència en Biotecnologia, 2016LLAVO0018 grant (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT Health). The authors are members of the ENABLE (European Gram-negative Antibacterial Engine) consortium (IMI-ND4BB, http://www.imi.europa.eu/projects-results/project-factsheets/enable).
Author Contributions
RS, AC, MGS and JS performed research, AM and YC supervised research. FR directed the whole research and writing
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest
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Rabanal, F.; Segovia, R.; Coll, A.; Solé, J.; Garcia-Subirats, M.; Manresa, A.; Cajal, Y. Design, Synthesis and Activity of New Polymyxins. Proceedings 2017, 1, 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1060662
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Rabanal F, Segovia R, Coll A, Solé J, Garcia-Subirats M, Manresa A, Cajal Y. Design, Synthesis and Activity of New Polymyxins. Proceedings. 2017; 1(6):662. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1060662
Chicago/Turabian StyleRabanal, Francesc, Roser Segovia, Aina Coll, Judith Solé, Maria Garcia-Subirats, Angeles Manresa, and Yolanda Cajal. 2017. "Design, Synthesis and Activity of New Polymyxins" Proceedings 1, no. 6: 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings1060662
