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Chemical reactivity and bioactivity properties of pyrazinamide analogs of acetylsalicylic acid and salicylic acid using conceptual density functional theory

cris.virtual.department Universiti Malaysia Perlis
cris.virtualsource.department 1f785c26-e44d-470f-a7e3-dc8b74946764
dc.contributor.author Al Rey Villagracia
dc.contributor.author Ong Hui Lin
dc.contributor.author Faith Marie Lagua
dc.contributor.author Glenn Alea
dc.date.accessioned 2025-10-23T01:41:37Z
dc.date.available 2025-10-23T01:41:37Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description.abstract Conventional drugs used to treat Tuberculosis (TB) are becoming ineffective due to the occurrence of multiple drug resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB). This has made the TB disease a a serious global health dilemma. Hence, there is desperate necessity for the advancement of new drugs. In this work, the chemical reactivity and bioactivity of several analogs ofpyrazinamide (PZA) were investigated. PZA is one of the first-line of drugs used to treat tuberculosis and is a key contributor to shortening the treatment time for the disease. Chemical reactivity descriptors of pyrazinamide (PZA) and its analogs of acetylsalicyclic acid and salicyclic acid were investigated using conceptual density functional theory in water as a solvent at the MN12SX/Def2TZVP level of theory. Results have shown that all PZA analogs have improved their global and local reactivity indeces as compared to pyrazinamide based on its electronegativity, electrodonating power, electroaccepting power, eletrophilicity, global hardness and dual descriptor condensed fukui indexes. Moreover, their pKa values are slightly higher than PZA. In terms of its drug-likeness, all PZA analogs passed the Lipinski's Rule of Five criteria. Furthermore, their bioactivity scores are significantly better than pyrazinamide indicating good reaction to G-Protein Coupled Receptor (GPCR) ligands, kinase inhibitors, ion channel modulators, nuclear receptor ligands, protease inhibitors and other enzyme targets. Overall, the PZA analogs are found to be promising anti-tuberculosis drugs. Based on global and local reactivity descriptors, pKa and bioactivity scores, PZA analog of 5-n-Octanoylsalicylic acid is the most reactive among the PZA analogs tested.
dc.identifier.doi 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04239
dc.identifier.uri https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020310835/pdfft?md5=5a1ffa0ace7b98dc594eb3e82bbd4250&pid=1-s2.0-S2405844020310835-main.pdf
dc.identifier.uri https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/heliyon
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14170/14856
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartof Heliyon
dc.relation.issn 2405-8440
dc.subject Theoretical chemistry
dc.subject Pyrazinamide
dc.subject Tuberculosis
dc.subject Density functional theory
dc.subject Bioactivity
dc.subject Chemical reactivity
dc.title Chemical reactivity and bioactivity properties of pyrazinamide analogs of acetylsalicylic acid and salicylic acid using conceptual density functional theory
dc.type journal-article
dspace.entity.type Publication
oaire.citation.endPage 8
oaire.citation.issue 6
oaire.citation.startPage 1
oaire.citation.volume 6
oairecerif.author.affiliation De La Salle University, Manila
oairecerif.author.affiliation Universiti Malaysia Perlis
oairecerif.author.affiliation De La Salle University, Manila
oairecerif.author.affiliation De La Salle University, Manila
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