B.A.Lund
et al.
(2016).
Screening and Design of Inhibitor Scaffolds for the Antibiotic Resistance Oxacillinase-48 (OXA-48) through Surface Plasmon Resonance Screening.
J Med Chem,
59,
5542-5554.
PubMed id: 27165692
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b00660
The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is a global threat that shakes the
foundations of modern healthcare. β-Lactamases are enzymes that confer
resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in bacteria, and there is a critical need
for new inhibitors of these enzymes for combination therapy together with an
antibiotic. With this in mind, we have screened a library of 490 fragments to
identify starting points for the development of new inhibitors of the class D
β-lactamase oxacillinase-48 (OXA-48) through surface plasmon resonance (SPR),
dose-rate inhibition assays, and X-ray crystallography. Furthermore, we have
uncovered structure-activity relationships and used alternate conformations from
a crystallographic structure to grow a fragment into a more potent compound with
a KD of 50 μM and an IC50 of 18 μM.