Owing to the persistence of tuberculosis (TB) as well as the emergence of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) forms of the disease, the development of new antitubercular drugs is crucial. Developing inhibitors of shikimate kinase (SK) in the shikimate pathway will provide a selective target for antitubercular agents. Many studies have used in silico technology to identify c...

Keeping in view the drawbacks associated with research on anti-TB drugs based on plant extracts and the non-availability of fluorinated natural products with antitubercular activity has prompted us to make an effort towards the synthesis and characterization of a novel series of fifteen substituted fluorobenzimidazoles. The newly synthesized compounds were characterized by I.R, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR,...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis, an ancient disease which, still today, represents a major threat for the world population. Despite the advances in medicine and the development of effective antitubercular drugs, the cure of tuberculosis involves prolonged therapies which complicate the compliance and monitoring of drug administration and treatment. Moreover, th...

Keeping in view the drawbacks associated with research on anti-TB drugs based on plant extracts and the non-availability of fluorinated natural products with antitubercular activity has prompted us to make an effort towards the synthesis and characterization of a novel series of fifteen substituted fluorobenzimidazoles. The newly synthesized compounds were characterized by I.R, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR,...

substituted schiff's bases 2a-o prepared by the treatment of 2-amino-4-(?-methoxyiminocarbomethoxymethyl)-thiazole 1 with different aromatic aldehydes, on cyclocondensation with mercaptoaceticacid and mercaptopropionicacid in dry benzene furnished desired thiazolidinones of type 3a-o and 4a-j, respectively. the structure of the compounds have been assigned on the basis of elemental analyse...

Substituted Schiff's bases 2a-o prepared by the treatment of 2-amino-4-(?-methoxyiminocarbomethoxymethyl)-thiazole 1 with different aromatic aldehydes, on cyclocondensation with mercaptoaceticacid and mercaptopropionicacid in dry benzene furnished desired thiazolidinones of type 3a-o and 4a-j, respectively. The structure of the compounds have been assigned on the basis of elemental analyses and...

Novel drugs to treat tuberculosis are required and the identification of potential targets is important. Piperidinols have been identified as potential antimycobacterial agents (MIC < 5 μg/mL), which also inhibit mycobacterial arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT), an enzyme essential for mycobacterial survival inside macrophages. The NAT inhibition involves a prodrug-like mechanism in which acti...

Recently, one third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 8 million new and relapse cases of tuberculosis are reported every year. The emergence of new cases, the increased incidence of multidrug resistant strains of M. tuberculosis, and the adverse effects of first and second-line antituberculosis drugs have led to renewed research interest in natural produc...