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Binding and Action of Amino Acid Analogs of Chloramphenicol upon the Bacterial Ribosome
Tereshchenkov, Andrey G.,Dobosz-Bartoszek, Malgorzata,Osterman, Ilya A.,Marks, James,Sergeeva, Vasilina A.,Kasatsky, Pavel,Komarova, Ekaterina S.,Stavrianidi, Andrey N.,Rodin, Igor A.,Konevega, Andrey L.,Sergiev, Petr V.,Sumbatyan, Natalia V.,Mankin, Alexander S.,Bogdanov, Alexey A.,Polikanov, Yury S.
, p. 842 - 852 (2018/02/26)
Antibiotic chloramphenicol (CHL) binds with a moderate affinity at the peptidyl transferase center of the bacterial ribosome and inhibits peptide bond formation. As an approach for modifying and potentially improving properties of this inhibitor, we explored ribosome binding and inhibitory activity of a number of amino acid analogs of CHL. The L-histidyl analog binds to the ribosome with the affinity exceeding that of CHL by 10 fold. Several of the newly synthesized analogs were able to inhibit protein synthesis and exhibited the mode of action that was distinct from the action of CHL. However, the inhibitory properties of the semi-synthetic CHL analogs did not correlate with their affinity and in general, the amino acid analogs of CHL were less active inhibitors of translation in comparison with the original antibiotic. The X-ray crystal structures of the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome in complex with three semi-synthetic analogs showed that CHL derivatives bind at the peptidyl transferase center, where the aminoacyl moiety of the tested compounds established idiosyncratic interactions with rRNA. Although still fairly inefficient inhibitors of translation, the synthesized compounds represent promising chemical scaffolds that target the peptidyl transferase center of the ribosome and potentially are suitable for further exploration.
Design, synthesis and ribosome binding of chloramphenicol nucleotide and intercalator conjugates
Johansson, Dorte,Jessen, Carsten H.,Pohlsgaard, Jacob,Jensen, Kenneth B.,Vester, Birte,Pedersen, Erik B.,Nielsen, Poul
, p. 2079 - 2083 (2007/10/03)
Molecular modelling based on X-ray structures of the antibiotic drug chloramphenicol bound in a bacterial ribosome has been used for design of chloramphenicol derivatives. Conjugates of the chloramphenicol amine through appropriate linkers to either a pyrene moiety or to a mono- or dinucleotide moiety were designed to improve binding to ribosomes by providing specific interactions in the peptidyl transferase site or to the P-loop in the ribosome. Specific binding of the conjugates were investigated by footprinting analysis using chemical modifications of accessible nucleotides in ribosomal RNA. The pyrene chloramphenicol conjugate shows enhanced binding to the chloramphenicol binding site compared to the native chloramphenicol, whereas the four nucleotide conjugates could not be shown to bind to the chloramphenicol binding site or to the P-loop.
Aminoacyl analogs of chloramphenicol: Examination of the kinetics of inhibition of peptide bond formation
Drainas,Mamos,Coutsogeorgopoulos
, p. 3542 - 3545 (2007/10/02)
Two aminoacyl analogs and one peptidyl analog of chloramphenicol (1, Cl2CHCO-CA) were prepared. These are 2 (L-Phe-CA), 3 (Gly-CA), and 4 (L- Phe-Gly-CA). The kinetics of inhibition of peptide bond formation by these analogs were examined in a
