title: The antibiotic effect of the anti-depressive drug femoxetine and its stereo-isomeric analogs on diarrhoea producing enterobacteriaceae.
abstract: The present investigation has been undertaken to illustrate the antibacterial effect on 20 diarrhoea producing enterobacteriaceae of an anti-depressive drug available as femoxetine and its three analogs. It has been shown that the stereo-isomeric trans forms of femoxetine are more than twice as active as the cis forms and inhibited all the strains below 400 microgram/ml (1.2 mM). The two cis compounds only inhibited 11 and 9 of the 20 strains respectively in the investigated area 100 microgram/ml - 800 microgram/ml (0.3 mM - 2.4 mM). Our investigations point out that the bacterial cell has a target for psychopharmacologically active agents. Thus the known psychopharmaca and their stereo-isomeric analogs may represent a pool of potentially new antimicrobial drugs. Furthermore the bacterial model may be useful as a model system in the study of the interaction of neuropharmacological agents and other membrane active compounds with biological membranes.
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans; D010880:Piperidines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D010880:Piperidines; C010655:femoxetine