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Discovery of lead compounds targeting the bacterial sliding clamp using a fragment-based approach
Yin, Zhou,Whittell, Louise R.,Wang, Yao,Jergic, Slobodan,Liu, Michael,Harry, Elizabeth J.,Dixon, Nicholas E.,Beck, Jennifer L.,Kelso, Michael J.,Oakley, Aaron J.
, p. 2799 - 2806 (2014)
The bacterial sliding clamp (SC), also known as the DNA polymerase III β subunit, is an emerging antibacterial target that plays a central role in DNA replication, serving as a protein-protein interaction hub with a common binding pocket to recognize linear motifs in the partner proteins. Here, fragment-based screening using X-ray crystallography produced four hits bound in the linear-motif-binding pocket of the Escherichia coli SC. Compounds structurally related to the hits were identified that inhibited the E. coli SC and SC-mediated DNA replication in vitro. A tetrahydrocarbazole derivative emerged as a promising lead whose methyl and ethyl ester prodrug forms showed minimum inhibitory concentrations in the range of 21-43 μg/mL against representative Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria species. The work demonstrates the utility of a fragment-based approach for identifying bacterial sliding clamp inhibitors as lead compounds with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity.
