Anti-tubercular screening of natural products from Colombian plants: 3-methoxynordomesticine, an inhibitor of MurE ligase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Juan Guzman,
Antima Gupta,
Dimitrios Evangelopoulos,
Chandrakala Basavannacharya,
Ludy C. Pabón,
Erika Plazas,
Diego Ricardo Muñoz-Cendales,
Wilman A. Delgado,
Luís Enríque Cuca Suárez,
Wellman Ribón,
Simon Gibbons,
Sanjib Bhakta
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkq313
Subject(s) - mycobacterium bovis , mycobacterium tuberculosis , growth inhibition , microbiology and biotechnology , alkaloid , aporphine , biology , dna ligase , tuberculosis , mycobacterium , biochemistry , chemistry , bacteria , enzyme , cell growth , stereochemistry , medicine , genetics , pathology
New anti-mycobacterial entities with novel mechanisms of action are clinically needed for treating resistant forms of tuberculosis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate anti-tubercular activity and selectivity of seven recently isolated natural products from Colombian plants.
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