Recent advances of imidazole-containing derivatives as anti-tubercular agents

YL Fan, XH Jin, ZP Huang, HF Yu, ZG Zeng… - European journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis still remains one of the most common, communicable, and leading deadliest
diseases known to mankind throughout the world. Drug-resistance in Mycobacterium …

Tuberculosis drug discovery: A decade of hit assessment for defined targets

S Oh, L Trifonov, VD Yadav, CE Barry III… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
More than two decades have elapsed since the publication of the first genome sequence of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) which, shortly thereafter, enabled methods to determine …

Recent development of benzimidazole‐containing antibacterial agents

D Song, S Ma - ChemMedChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Clinically significant antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty‐first
century. However, new antibacterial agents are currently being developed at a much slower …

FtsZ inhibitors as a new genera of antibacterial agents

S Tripathy, SK Sahu - Bioorganic chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
The continuous emergence and rapid spread of a multidrug-resistant strain of bacterial
pathogens have demanded the discovery and development of new antibacterial agents. A …

Synthesis and investigation of novel benzimidazole derivatives as antifungal agents

NT Chandrika, SK Shrestha, HX Ngo… - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2016 - Elsevier
The rise and emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs by diverse pathogenic fungal
strains have resulted in an increase in demand for new antifungal agents. Various …

Drug resistance mechanisms and novel drug targets for tuberculosis therapy

MM Islam, HMA Hameed, J Mugweru… - Journal of genetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) poses a significant challenge to the successful treatment
and control of TB worldwide. Resistance to anti-TB drugs has existed since the beginning of …

Targeting the bacterial division protein FtsZ

KA Hurley, TMA Santos, GM Nepomuceno… - Journal of medicinal …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Similar to its eukaryotic counterpart, the prokaryotic cytoskeleton is essential for the
structural and mechanical properties of bacterial cells. The essential protein FtsZ is a central …

Cell division protein FtsZ: from structure and mechanism to antibiotic target

N Silber, CL Matos de Opitz, C Mayer… - Future microbiology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Antimicrobial resistance to virtually all clinically applied antibiotic classes severely limits the
available options to treat bacterial infections. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop and …

A Review of Approaches to the Metallic and Non-Metallic Synthesis of Benzimidazole (BnZ) and Their Derivatives for Biological Efficacy

M Patel, G Avashthi, A Gacem, MS Alqahtani, HK Park… - Molecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heterocyclic compounds are significant lead drug candidates based on their various
structure–activity relationships (SAR), and their use in pharmaceutics is constantly …

Recent advancements on benzimidazole: A versatile scaffold in medicinal chemistry

ZMM Alzhrani, MM Alam… - Mini Reviews in Medicinal …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
Benzimidazole is a nitrogen-containing fused heterocycle which has been extensively
explored in medicinal chemistry. Benzimidizole nucleus has been found to possess various …