EXPERIMENTAL DRUGS / POTENTIAL ANTIBIOTIC THERAPIES AGAINST M. ULCERANS
Sparfloxacin
CLASS
Quinolone
TARGET PROTEIN
DNA gyrase
MECHANISM OF ACTION
Bactericidal activity
DRUG INTERACTION PHASE (APPROVED, INVESTIGATIONAL, EXPERIMENTAL)
Experimental
LINK TO PUBMED
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10660507/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32091697/
SIMILAR TARGETS IN OTHER SPECIES
DNA gyrase subunit A and DNA topoisomerase 4 subunit A ~ Haemophilus influenzae (strain ATCC 51907 / DSM 11121 / KW20 / Rd)
DRUG BANK ID
DB01208
EXTERNAL LINKS
Human Metabolome Database HMDB0015339 KEGG Drug D00590 KEGG Compound C07662 PubChem Compound 60464 PubChem Substance 46506453 ChemSpider 54517 BindingDB 50366822 RxNav 18469 ChEBI 9212 ChEMBL CHEMBL850 ZINC ZINC000000538362 Drugs.com Drugs.com Drug Page https://www.drugs.com/mtm/sparfloxacin.html Wikipedia Sparfloxacin
REFERENCE
Thangaraj, H. S., Adjeib, O., Allen, B. W., Portaels, F., Evans, M. R. W., Banerjee, D. K., & Wansbrough-Jonesa, M. H. (2000). In vitro activity of ciprofloxacin, sparfloxacin, ofloxacin, amikacin and rifampicin against Ghanaian isolates of Mycobacterium ulcerans. The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 45(2), 231?233. https://doi.org/10.1093/JAC/45.2.231 Pluschke, G., & R?ltgen, K. (2019). Buruli ulcer: Mycobacterium ulcerans disease. In Buruli Ulcer: Mycobacterium ulcerans Disease. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11114-4