Journal
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 65, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2022.128702
Keywords
SOS response; Stress response; Antibiotic resistance; Tolerance; DNA damage
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- National Institutes of Health [1F31AI152459, R35-GM119426, R01-GM127593, T32-AI141393]
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Resistant and tolerant bacterial infections have significant impact on healthcare expenses and human lives. Current antibiotic research focuses less on the resistance and tolerance in bacterial populations. This study targeted the bacterial SOS response and developed small molecule inhibitors to prevent the deployment of resistance and tolerance mechanisms such as biofilm formation, horizontal gene transfer, and DNA repair.
Resistant and tolerant bacterial infections lead to billions in healthcare costs and cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. The bulk of current antibiotic research efforts focus on molecules which, although novel, are not immune from acquired resistance and seldomly affect tolerant populations. The bacterial SOS response has been implicated in several resistance and tolerance mechanisms, making it an attractive antibiotic target. Using small molecule inhibitors targeting a key step in the deployment of the SOS response, our approach focused on preventing the deployment of mechanisms such as biofilm formation, horizontal gene transfer, and error-prone DNA repair. Herein we report the synthesis and testing of analogs of a triazole-containing tricyclic inhibitor of LexA proteolysis, the key event in the SOS response. Our results hint that our inhibitor's may function by adopting a 8-hairpin conformation, reminiscent of the native cleavage loop of LexA.
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