A new series of 1,2,3‐triazole–(thio)barbituric acid hybrids 8a–n was designed and synthesized on the basis of potent pharmacophores with urease inhibitory activity. Therefore, these compounds were evaluated against Helicobacter pylori urease. The obtained result demonstrated that all the synthesized compounds, 8a–n, were more potent than the standard urease inhibitor, hydroxyurea. Moreover, among them, compounds 8a, 8c–e, 8g,h, and 8k,l exhibited higher urease inhibitory activities than the other standard inhibitor used: thiourea. Docking studies were performed with the synthesized compounds. Furthermore, molecular dynamic simulation of the most potent compounds, 8e and 8l, showed that these compounds interacted with the conserved residues Cys592 and His593, which belong to the active site flap and are essential for enzymatic activity. These interactions have two consequences: (a) blocking the movement of a flap at the entrance of the active site channel and (b) stabilizing the closed active site flap conformation, which significantly reduces the catalytic activity of urease. Calculation of the physicochemical and topological properties of the synthesized compounds 8a–n predicted that all these compounds can be orally active. The ADME prediction of compounds 8a–n was also performed.

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A new series of arylmethylene hydrazine derivatives bearing 1,3-dimethylbarbituric moiety 7a–o were designed, synthesized, and evaluated for their in vitro urease inhibitory activity. All the title compounds displayed high anti-urease activity, with IC50 values in the range of 0.61 ± 0.06–4.56 ± 0.18 µM as compared to the two standard inhibitors hydroxyurea (IC50 = 100 ± 0.15 μM) and thiourea (IC50 = 23 ± 1.7 μM). Among the synthesized compounds, compound 7h with 2-nitro benzylidene group was found to be the most potent compound. Kinetic study of this compound revealed that it is a mix-mode inhibitor against urease. Evaluation of the interaction modes of the synthesized compounds in urease active site by molecular modeling revealed that that compounds with higher urease inhibitor activity (7h, 7m, 7c, 7l, 7i, and 7o, with IC50 of 0.61, 0.86, 1.2, 1.34, 1.33, 1.94 μM, respectively) could interact with higher number of residues, specially Arg609, Cys592 (as part of urease active site flap) and showed higher computed free energy, while compounds with lower urease activity (7f, 7n, 7g, and 7a with IC50 of 3.56, 4.56, 3.62 and 4.43 μM, respectively) and could not provide the proper interaction with Arg609, and Cys592 as the key interacting residues along with lower free binding energy. MD investigation revealed compound 7h interacted with Arg609 and Cys592 which are of the key residues at the root part of mobile flap covering the active site. Interacting with the mentioned residue for a significant amount of time, affects the flexibility of the mobile flap covering the active site and causes inhibition of the ureolytic activity. Furthermore, in silico physico-chemical study of compounds 7a–o predicted that all these compounds are drug-likeness with considerable orally availability.