Synthesis and Antimicrobial Activities of His(2-aryl)-Arg and Trp-His(2-aryl) Classes of Dipeptidomimetics

Medchemcomm. 2014 May 1;5(5):671-676. doi: 10.1039/C4MD00041B.

Abstract

In this communication, we report the design, synthesis and in vitro antimicrobial activity of ultra short peptidomimetics. Besides producing promising antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), the dipeptidomimetics exhibited high antifungal activity against C. neoformans with IC50 values in the range of 0.16-19 μg/mL. The most potent analogs exhibited 4-fold higher activity than the currently used drug amphotericin B, with no apparent cytotoxicity in a panel of mammalian cell lines.