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Screening of a Drug Repurposing Library With a Nematode Motility Assay Identifies Promising Anthelmintic Hits Against Cooperia Oncophora and Other Ruminant Parasites

Screening of a Drug Repurposing Library With a Nematode Motility Assay Identifies Promising Anthelmintic Hits Against Cooperia Oncophora and Other Ruminant Parasites

Maoxuan Liu, Bart Landuyt, Hugo Klaassen, Peter Geldhof, Walter Luyten

Vet Parasitol. 2019 Jan;265:15-18.

PMID: 30638515

Abstract:

Parasitic nematodes continue to cause significant economic losses in livestock globally. Given the limited number of anthelmintic drugs on the market and the currently increasing drug resistance, there is an urgent need for novel anthelmintics. Most motility assays of anthelmintic activity for parasitic nematodes are laborious and low throughput, and therefore not suitable for screening large compound libraries. Cooperia oncophora accounts for a large proportion of reports on the drug-resistance development of parasites globally. Therefore, using a WMicroTracker instrument, we established a practical, automated and low-cost whole-organism motility assay against exsheathed L3 stages (xL3s) of the ruminant parasite Cooperia oncophora, and screened a repurposing library comprising 2745 molecules. Fourteen known anthelmintics contained in this library were picked up in this blind screen, as well as four novel hits: thonzonium bromide, NH125, physostigmine sulfate, and EVP4593. The four hits were also active against xL3s of Ostertagia ostertagi, Haemonchus contortus and Teladorsagia circumcincta using the same assay. Cytotoxicity testing showed that thonzonium bromide and NH125 (1-Benzyl-3-cetyl-2-methylimidazolium iodide) have significant cytotoxicity. EVP4593 (N(4)-(2-(4-phenoxyphenyl)ethyl)-4,6-quinazolinediamine) demonstrated a potent and broad anthelmintic activity, and a high selectivity index. Moreover, given its novel and unexplored chemical scaffold for anthelmintic activity, EVP4593 is an interesting anthelmintic hit for further optimization.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP545380345	EVP4593		545380-34-5	Price
AP553082	Thonzonium bromide		553-08-2	Price

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