Natural Products as Leads for Tuberculosis Drug Development

Title:Natural Products as Leads for Tuberculosis Drug Development

Volume: 12 Issue: 7

Author(s): Christine E. Salomon and Lori E. Schmidt

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Keywords: Natural products, tuberculosis, drug development, mycobacterium tuberculosis, drug resistant tuberculosis, structure activity relationship

Abstract: New therapeutics are urgently needed to combat the immense disease burden of tuberculosis and related mycobacterial diseases worldwide. Natural products continue to provide leads for the development of novel drugs to treat the rapidly growing numbers of patients with multi- and extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis. This review presents natural products and synthesized analogues with anti-mycobacterial activity published between 2006 through 2009. Structure activity relationships, synthetic analogues and newly reported activities of known compounds reported during this period are also included.

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E. Salomon Christine and E. Schmidt Lori, Natural Products as Leads for Tuberculosis Drug Development, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 2012; 12 (7) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/156802612799984526