Identification of KasA as the cellular target of an anti-tubercular scaffold

oleh: Katherine A. Abrahams, Chun-wa Chung, Sonja Ghidelli-Disse, Joaquín Rullas, María José Rebollo-López, Sudagar S. Gurcha, Jonathan A. G. Cox, Alfonso Mendoza, Elena Jiménez-Navarro, María Santos Martínez-Martínez, Margarete Neu, Anthony Shillings, Paul Homes, Argyrides Argyrou, Ruth Casanueva, Nicholas J. Loman, Patrick J. Moynihan, Joël Lelièvre, Carolyn Selenski, Matthew Axtman, Laurent Kremer, Marcus Bantscheff, Iñigo Angulo-Barturen, Mónica Cacho Izquierdo, Nicholas C. Cammack, Gerard Drewes, Lluis Ballell, David Barros, Gurdyal S. Besra, Robert H. Bates

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-09-01

Deskripsi

Screens for bactericidal compounds have resulted in promising anti-tubercular hits. Here, the authors analyse in detail the target of an indazole sulfonamide (GSK3011724A), and find that it has a different mode of inhibition compared to other Kas inhibitors of fatty acid biosynthesis in bacteria.