Placement of alkyl substituents on the C-7 piperazine ring of fluoroquinolones: dramatic differential effects on mammalian topoisomerase II and DNA gyrase.

AUTOR(ES)

Gootz, T D

RESUMO

Several substituted analogs of 7-(cis-3,5-dimethylpiperazinyl)-6,8-difluoro-5-amino-1-cyclopropyl quinolone were prepared and tested in a DNA cleavage assay with calf thymus topoisomerase II. Positioning of the methyl groups on the C-7 piperazine ring influenced potency against the mammalian enzyme; the cis-3,5-dimethyl configuration did not stimulate cleavage at drug concentrations less than or equal to 2,000 microM, while the trans configuration was active at drug levels as low as 36 microM. Removal of the cis-methyl groups produced a compound that was only sixfold less potent than the antitumor agent etoposide in stimulating enzyme-mediated DNA cleavage. The cis- and trans-methyl substitutions on the piperazine that conferred potency against the mammalian type II enzyme had little effect on bacterial DNA gyrase cleavage activity, suggesting that an asymmetric barrier exists with the mammalian enzyme which influences productive quinolone interaction, favoring the less bulky trans-3,5-dimethylpiperazine substituent at C-7.

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