The increase in antibacterial resistance has created the demand for new antibiotics. The present invention relates to a more potent antibiotic that targets the enzyme glutamate racemase from known glutamate racemase inhibitors. Glutamate racemase catalyses the interconversion of L-glutamate to D-glutamate, making D-glutamate available, which is required for bacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis. Knockout mutations have shown glutamate racemase to be necessary for bacterial cell survival and, before the present invention, no antibiotic on the market targeted this enzyme. The present invention relates to new, ligand based glutamate racemase inhibitors, developed using software to extract a pharmacophore model from a group of known glutamate racemase inhibitors. Forty-seven (47) known inhibitors were collected from the literature and several pharmacophore models were extracted therefrom. The functional groups common to all the known inhibitors were included in a pharmacophore model that described the requirements for glutamate racemase inhibition with 82% accuracy. Of these models, one was found to describe the requirements for glutamate racemase inhibition with 82% accuracy. The model was used to search databases of commercially available chemical compounds and 2-(2-(1/i-indol-3-yl)ethylamino)-4-oxo-4-p-tolylbutanoic acid and 2-(2-(1//-indol-3-yl)ethylamino)-4-(4-fluorophenyl)-4-oxobutanoic acid were identified as showing antibacterial activity. These compounds were assayed against S. pneumoniae and were shown to have antibacterial activity against the non- virulent strain R6 and against a multidrug resistant strain.
抗菌药耐药性的增加导致了对新型抗生素的需求。本发明涉及一种针对谷
氨酸消旋酶的更强效抗生素,而不是已知的谷
氨酸消旋酶
抑制剂。谷
氨酸消旋酶催化
L-谷氨酸与
D-谷氨酸的相互转化,使细菌肽聚糖的
生物合成需要
D-谷氨酸。
基因敲除突变表明,谷
氨酸消旋酶是细菌细胞存活所必需的,而在本发明之前,市场上还没有针对这种酶的抗生素。本发明涉及基于
配体的新型谷
氨酸消旋酶
抑制剂,该
抑制剂是利用软件从一组已知谷
氨酸消旋酶
抑制剂中提取药效模型而开发的。我们从文献中收集了四十七(47)种已知
抑制剂,并从中提取了若干药效模型。所有已知
抑制剂共有的官能团都被纳入了一个药理模型,该模型描述谷
氨酸消旋酶抑制要求的准确率为 82%。在这些模型中,发现有一个模型能以 82% 的准确率描述谷
氨酸消旋酶抑制的要求。利用该模型搜索了市售化合物数据库,发现 2-(2-(1/i-
吲哚-3-基)乙基
氨基)-4-氧代-4-对
甲苯丁酸和 2-(2-(1/i-
吲哚-3-基)乙基
氨基)-4-(4-
氟苯基)-4-氧代
丁酸具有抗菌活性。对这些化合物进行了抗肺炎双球菌试验,结果表明它们对无毒菌株 R6 和耐多药菌株具有抗菌活性。