In an attempt to find out a new class of antimicrobial agents new series of Benzylidine-2imino-1,3-benzothiazole and other related products containing benzothiazole moiety were prepared. The synthesis was carried out by condensation of different aromatic aldehydes with benzothiazole derivative using different procedures. The synthesised compounds were characterized and evaluated for antimicrobi...

UNLABELLED Studies describing the use of essential oil constituents as antimicrobial agents have steadily increased; however, some phyto-constituents are often overlooked due to unfavourable minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values. Virulence depends on transcriptional factors which are regulated by cell-to-cell communication called quorum sensing (QS). This study was undertaken to evaluat...

Imidazole derivatives have a wide spectrum of pharmacological activities especially potent antimicrobial activity against a wide variety of microbes like bacteria and fungi. Therefore, in this study new series of imidazole derivatives were synthesized and investigated for antimicrobial activity so as to obtain new biologically active compounds. Structures of the final compounds were confirmed b...

Five new sulfide diketopiperazine derivatives, namely, penicibrocazines A-E (1-5), along with a known congener (6), were isolated and identified from the culture extract of Penicillium brocae MA-231, an endophytic fungus obtained from the fresh tissue of the marine mangrove plant Avicennia marina. The structures of these compounds were elucidated by detailed interpretation of NMR and mass spect...

Seaweed produces metabolites aiding in the protection against different environmental stresses. These compounds show antiviral, antiprotozoal, antifungal, and antibacterial properties. Macroalgae can be cultured in high volumes and would represent an attractive source of potential compounds useful for unconventional drugs able to control new diseases or multiresistant strains of pathogenic micr...

The importance of volatile organic compounds for functioning of microbes is receiving increased research attention. However, to date very little is known on how inter-specific bacterial interactions effect volatiles production as most studies have been focused on volatiles produced by monocultures of well-described bacterial genera. In this study we aimed to understand how inter-specific bacter...