Publication Date:
1996-11-08
Description:
Lipid A constitutes the outer monolayer of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria and is essential for bacterial growth. Synthetic antibacterials were identified that inhibit the second enzyme (a unique deacetylase) of lipid A biosynthesis. The inhibitors are chiral hydroxamic acids bearing certain hydrophobic aromatic moieties. They may bind to a metal in the active site of the deacetylase. The most potent analog (with an inhibition constant of about 50 nM) displayed a minimal inhibitory concentration of about 1 microgram per milliliter against Escherichia coli, caused three logs of bacterial killing in 4 hours, and cured mice infected with a lethal intraperitoneal dose of E. coli.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Onishi, H R -- Pelak, B A -- Gerckens, L S -- Silver, L L -- Kahan, F M -- Chen, M H -- Patchett, A A -- Galloway, S M -- Hyland, S A -- Anderson, M S -- Raetz, C R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Nov 8;274(5289):980-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Microbiology, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8875939" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amidohydrolases/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism
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Animals
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Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemistry/*pharmacology
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Binding Sites
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Escherichia coli/drug effects
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Escherichia coli Infections/drug therapy
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Gram-Negative Bacteria/*drug effects
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Hydroxamic Acids/chemistry/*pharmacology
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Lipid A/*biosynthesis
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Mice
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Microbial Sensitivity Tests
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Oxazoles/chemistry/pharmacology
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Pseudomonas/drug effects
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Serratia/drug effects
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Stereoisomerism
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Structure-Activity Relationship
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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