The emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens necessitates the search for new antibiotics acting on previously unexplored targets. Nicotinate mononucleotide adenylyltransferase of the NadD family, an essential enzyme of NAD biosynthesis in most bacteria, was selected as a target for structure-based inhibitor development. To this end, the inventors have identified small molecule compounds that inhibit bacterial target enzymes by interacting with a novel inhibitory binding site on the enzyme while having no effect on functionally equivalent human enzymes.
多重耐药病原体的出现需要寻找作用于先前未被探索的靶点的新抗生素。Nicotinate mononucleotide adenylyltransferase of the
NADD family是大多数细菌
NAD生物合成的必需酶,被选为基于结构的
抑制剂开发的目标。为此,发明人已经确定了
小分子化合物,通过与酶上的新型抑制性结合位点相互作用来抑制细菌靶酶,而对功能等效的人体酶没有影响。