Publication Date:
2010-02-20
Description:
Antibiotics with new mechanisms of action are urgently required to combat the growing health threat posed by resistant pathogenic microorganisms. We synthesized a family of peptidomimetic antibiotics based on the antimicrobial peptide protegrin I. Several rounds of optimization gave a lead compound that was active in the nanomolar range against Gram-negative Pseudomonas spp., but was largely inactive against other Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Biochemical and genetic studies showed that the peptidomimetics had a non-membrane-lytic mechanism of action and identified a homolog of the beta-barrel protein LptD (Imp/OstA), which functions in outer-membrane biogenesis, as a cellular target. The peptidomimetic showed potent antimicrobial activity in a mouse septicemia infection model. Drug-resistant strains of Pseudomonas are a serious health problem, so this family of antibiotics may have important therapeutic applications.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Srinivas, Nityakalyani -- Jetter, Peter -- Ueberbacher, Bernhard J -- Werneburg, Martina -- Zerbe, Katja -- Steinmann, Jessica -- Van der Meijden, Benjamin -- Bernardini, Francesca -- Lederer, Alexander -- Dias, Ricardo L A -- Misson, Pauline E -- Henze, Heiko -- Zumbrunn, Jurg -- Gombert, Frank O -- Obrecht, Daniel -- Hunziker, Peter -- Schauer, Stefan -- Ziegler, Urs -- Kach, Andres -- Eberl, Leo -- Riedel, Kathrin -- DeMarco, Steven J -- Robinson, John A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Feb 19;327(5968):1010-3. doi: 10.1126/science.1182749.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Chemistry Department, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20167788" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anti-Bacterial Agents/chemical synthesis/metabolism/*pharmacology
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Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides/chemistry
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Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Cell Membrane/*metabolism
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Drug Design
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Drug Resistance, Bacterial/genetics
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Genes, Bacterial
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Lipopolysaccharides/metabolism
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Mice
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Microbial Sensitivity Tests
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Molecular Mimicry
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Mutation
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Peptide Library
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Peptides/chemical synthesis/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Pseudomonas Infections/drug therapy/microbiology
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa/*drug effects/growth &
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development/*metabolism/ultrastructure
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Sepsis/drug therapy/microbiology
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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