二肽酶III是M49家族的金属肽酶,最初在垂体中通过特定的二精氨酰芳胺裂解而被识别出来,这些芳胺一直被用作首选的测定底物。在这里,我们同时检测了酵母和人类二肽酶III的活性。人类酶更喜欢Arg2-β-萘胺,并显示出这种底物的620倍高的
Phenylalanine arginine β‐naphthylamine, or PAβN, is a C‐terminus capped dipeptide discovered in 1999 as an RND‐type efflux pump inhibitor (EPI). Since then, PAβN has become a standard tool compound in EPI research and development. Despite this, PAβN lacks a detailed or efficient synthesis, and standard parameters for its use in wild‐type bacterial strains are inconsistent or non‐existent. Therefore, a scalable and chromatography‐free synthesis of PAβN was developed using streamlined traditional solution‐phase peptide coupling chemistry. With this procedure, gram scale quantities of PAβN were synthesized alongside analogues and stereoisomers to build a focused library to evaluate simple structure activity relationships. While most analogues were less active than the broadly utilized L,L‐PAβN itself, we identified that its enantiomer, D,D‐PAβN, also provided 8‐ to 16‐fold potentiation of the antibiotic levofloxacin at 40 to 50 μg/mL concentrations of EPI in various wild‐type