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Review
. 2022 Dec;100(6):1086-1121.
doi: 10.1111/cbdd.14100. Epub 2022 Jun 27.

1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives as potential antimicrobial agents

Deeksha Tiwari  1 , Rakesh Narang  1 , Kalvatala Sudhakar  2 , Vikramjeet Singh  3 , Sukhbir Lal  1 , Manish Devgun  1
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Review

1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives as potential antimicrobial agents

Deeksha Tiwari et al. Chem Biol Drug Des. 2022 Dec.

Abstract

Due to the emergence of drug-resistant microbial strains, different research groups are continuously developing novel drug molecules against already exploited and unexploited targets. 1,3,4-Oxadiazole derivatives exhibited noteworthy antimicrobial activities. The presence of 1,3,4-oxadiazole moiety in antimicrobial agents can modify their polarity and flexibility, which significantly improves biological activities due to various bonded and non-bonded interactions viz. hydrogen bond, steric, electrostatic, and hydrophobic with target sites. The present review elaborates the therapeutic targets and mode of interaction of 1,3,4-oxadiazoles as antimicrobial agents. 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives target enoyl reductase (InhA), 14α-demethylase in the mycobacterial cell; GlcN-6-P synthase, thymidylate synthase, peptide deformylase, RNA polymerase, dehydrosqualene synthase in bacterial strains; ergosterol biosynthesis pathway, P450-14α demethylase, protein-N-myristoyltransferase in fungal strains; FtsZ protein, interfere with purine and functional protein synthesis in plant bacteria. The present review also summarizes the effect of different moieties and functional groups on the antimicrobial activity of 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives.

Keywords: 1,3,4-Oxadiazole derivatives; 3D-QSAR; antimicrobial; molecular docking; structure-activity relationship; therapeutic targets.

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