Combinatorial Chemistry & High Throughput Screening, 19(3) 238-245
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infection with global impact that over time
demonstrates enormously high mortality rates. The vital need for
improving novel and efficient anti-TB drugs is caused by the rising rate
of appearance of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) strains to the frequently
utilized drugs.In addition, the longer periods of therapy and healing,
mainly in the immune compromised patients aggrevates the situation.
Recent studies indicate that computer-based techniques have been used
successfully in the antibacterial research. In our current approach,
utilizing combined pattern of computer-based methods as fragment-based
de novo design, structure-based docking and scoring, in addition to
similaritybased compound searching, led to introduce seven in silico
designed compounds with probable antimycobacterial properties. Then, we
investigated their potency against sensitive and resistant strains of
Mycobacterium sp …