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- Title
Design, Synthesis, In Vitro Antifungal Activity and Mechanism Study of the Novel 4-Substituted Mandelic Acid Derivatives.
- Authors
Chen, Biao; Song, Dandan; Shi, Huabin; Chen, Kuai; Wu, Zhibing; Chai, Huifang
- Abstract
Plant diseases caused by phytopathogenic fungi are a serious threat in the process of crop production and cause large economic losses to global agriculture. To obtain high-antifungal-activity compounds with novel action mechanisms, a series of 4-substituted mandelic acid derivatives containing a 1,3,4-oxadiazole moiety were designed and synthesized. In vitro bioassay results revealed that some compounds exhibited excellent activity against the tested fungi. Among them, the EC50 values of E13 against Gibberella saubinetii (G. saubinetii), E6 against Verticillium dahlia (V. dahlia), and E18 against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (S. sclerotiorum) were 20.4, 12.7, and 8.0 mg/L, respectively, which were highly superior to that of the commercialized fungicide mandipropamid. The morphological studies of G. saubinetii with a fluorescence microscope (FM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) indicated that E13 broke the surface of the hyphae and destroyed cell membrane integrity with increased concentration, thereby inhibiting fungal reproduction. Further cytoplasmic content leakage determination results showed a dramatic increase of the nucleic acid and protein concentrations in mycelia with E13 treatment, which also indicated that the title compound E13 could destroy cell membrane integrity and affect the growth of fungi. These results provide important information for further study of the mechanism of action of mandelic acid derivatives and their structural derivatization.
- Subjects
ANTIFUNGAL agents; ACID derivatives; PHYTOPATHOGENIC fungi; SCLEROTINIA sclerotiorum; SCANNING electron microscopes; PLANT diseases
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 10, p8898
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms24108898