sulfaguanidine   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 12639

Synonyms: sulfanilylguanidine | sulphaguanidine
Approved drug PDB Ligand
sulfaguanidine is an approved drug (FDA (1941))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Sulfaguanidine is a sulfonamide antimicrobial compound [4]. Structurally it is a guanidine derivative of sulfanilamide.
2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Hydrogen bond acceptors 6
Hydrogen bond donors 3
Rotatable bonds 2
Topological polar surface area 132.94
Molecular weight 214.25
XLogP -1.37
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES C1=C(C=CC(=C1)S(=O)(=O)N=C(N)N)N
Isomeric SMILES C1=CC(=CC=C1N)S(=O)(=O)N=C(N)N
InChI InChI=1S/C7H10N4O2S/c8-5-1-3-6(4-2-5)14(12,13)11-7(9)10/h1-4H,8H2,(H4,9,10,11)
InChI Key BRBKOPJOKNSWSG-UHFFFAOYSA-N
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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Sulfaguanidine has been marketed in a number of jurisdictions, including the US, Japan and some European countries. However, there is no information regarding approval for clinical use of this drug on the US FDA or European Medicines Agency (EMA) websites. Individual national approval agencies may have granted marketing authorisation. The international drug listing on the FDA website states that in some countries sulfaguanidine may only be approved for veterinary use.
Mechanism Of Action and Pharmacodynamic Effects Click here for help
Sulfonamides are structural analogues of 4-aminobenzoic acid (pABA) an intermediate in the de novo synthesis of folate by some prokaryotes, lower eukaryotes and plants [2]. The antibacterial MMOA is competitive inhibition of bacterial dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) resulting in a block of folate biosynthesis [1].