New marine-derived indolymethyl pyrazinoquinazoline alkaloids with promising antimicrobial profiles.

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LQOF - Laboratório de Química Orgânica e Farmacêutica, Departamento de Ciências Químicas, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228 4050-313 Porto Portugal

Published: August 2020

Due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms, the search for novel antimicrobials is urgent. Inspired by marine alkaloids, a series of indolomethyl pyrazino [1,2-]quinazoline-3,6-diones was prepared using a one-pot microwave-assisted multicomponent polycondensation of amino acids. The compounds were evaluated for their antimicrobial activity against a panel of nine bacterial strains and five fungal strains. Compounds 26 and 27 were the most effective against ATCC 29213 reference strain with MIC values of 4 μg mL, and a methicillin-resistant (MRSA) isolate with MIC values of 8 μg mL. It was possible to infer that enantiomer (-)-26 was responsible for the antibacterial activity (MIC 4 μg mL) while (+)-26 had no activity. Furthermore, compound (-)-26 was able to impair biofilm production and no significant cytotoxicity towards differentiated and non-differentiated SH-SY5Y cells was observed. Compounds 26, 28, and 29 showed a weak antifungal activity against clinical isolate with MIC 128 μg mL and presented a synergistic effect with fluconazole.

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