Studies on bacterial cell wall inhibitors: II. Inhibition of peptidoglycan synthesis in vivo and in vitro by Amphomycin (cas 1402-82-0)☆

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Amphomycin has been reported by the present authors to be a selective inhibitor of cell wall peptidoglycan synthesis in Bacillus cereus T (Ōmura, S., Tanaka, H., Shinohara, M., Ōiwa, R. and Hata, T. (1975) Chemotherapy 5, 365–369). Investigations were carried out to clarify the target of amphomycin.Amphomycin (10 μg/ml) lysed growing cells of B. cereus T, and inhibited peptidoglycan synthesis, accompanied by accumulation of uridine diphosphate-N-acetylmuramyl (UDP-MurNAc) peptides. The nucleotide precursors that accumulated in cells of Staphylococcus aureus FDA 209P in the presence of amphomycin were identified as UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-Glu-L-Lys-D-Ala-D-Ala, UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala and UDP-MurNAc. In the experiments using a particulate enzyme system of Bacillus megaterium KM, amphomycin inhibited the polymerization of UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-Glu-meso-diaminopimelic acid-D-Ala-D-Ala (UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide) and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine, and also inhibited the formation of lipid intermediates, but did not inhibit the cross-linking, the last step of peptidoglycan synthesis. Unlike bacitracin, amphomycin did not lyse protoplasts of B. megaterium KM.We conclude that the site of action of amphomycin is the formation of MurNAc-(pentapeptide)-P-P-lipid from MurNAc-pentapeptide and undecaprenol (lipid) phosphate.

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