Discovery and Refinement of a New Structural Class of Potent Peptide Deformylase Inhibitors
作者:Adrien Boularot、Carmela Giglione、Sylvain Petit、Yann Duroc、Rodolphe Alves de Sousa、Valéry Larue、Thierry Cresteil、Frédéric Dardel、Isabelle Artaud、Thierry Meinnel
DOI:10.1021/jm060910c
日期:2007.1.1
New classes of antibiotics are urgently needed to counter increasing levels of pathogen resistance. Peptide deformylase (PDF) was originally selected as a specific bacterial target, but a human homologue, the inhibition of which causes cell death, was recently discovered. We developed a dual-screening strategy for selecting highly effective compounds with low inhibition effect against human PDF. We selected a new scaffold in vitro that discriminated between human and bacterial PDFs. Analyses of structure-activity relationships identified potent antibiotics such as 2-(5-bromo-1H-indol-3-yl)-N-hydroxyacetamide (6b) with the same mode of action in vivo as previously identified PDF inhibitors but without the apoptotic effects of these inhibitors in human cells.