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Novel Synthesis of Benzimidazole-Aldehyde Derivatives & Characterization Targeting Microbial G-quadrupex Motif

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Nasiruddin Ahmad Farooqui , Muskan Fazeel Dr. Shamim Ahamad
ยป doi: 10.48047/AFJBS.6.8.2024.3289-3311

Abstract

Guanidine DNA quadruplex (G4-DNA) structures convey a distinctive layer of epigenetic information that is critical for regulating key biological activities and processes as transcription, replication, and repair in living cells. The information regarding their role and use as therapeutic drug targets in bacteria is still scarce. Here, we tested the biological activity of a G4-DNA ligand library, based on BenzimidazoleAldehyde Based pharmacophore, against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. For the best compound identified, Benzimidazole-Aldehyde Based, a different action mechanism was described for Gram-positive or negative bacteria. This asymmetric activity profile could be related to the different prevalence of putative G4-DNA structures in each group, the influence that they can exert on gene expression, and the different roles of the G4 structures in these bacteria, which seem to promote transcription in Gram-positive bacteria and repress transcription in Gram-negatives. We derived Chemical library of Benzimidazole- Aldehyde Derivatives motif .

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