Novel Inhibitors of E. coli RecA ATPase Activity
Jonathan Z Sexton*, 1, Tim J Wigle2, Qingping He1, Mark A Hughes1, Ginger R Smith1, Scott F Singleton2, Alfred L Williams1, Li-An Yeh1
1 Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise, North Carolina Central University, Durham, 27707, USA
2 UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB #7568, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599-7568, USA
Abstract
The bacterial RecA protein has been implicated as a bacterial drug target not as an antimicrobial target, but as an adjuvant target with the potential to suppress the mechanism by which bacteria gain drug resistance. In order to identify small molecules that inhibit RecA/ssDNA nucleoprotein filament formation, we have adapted the phosphomolybdate-blue ATPase assay for high throughput screening to determine RecA ATPase activity against a library of 33,600 compounds, which is a selected representation of diverse structure of 350,000. Four distinct chemotypes were represented among the 40 validated hits. SAR and further chemical synthesis is underway to optimize this set of inhibitors to be used as antimicrobial adjuvant agents.
Keywords: Antibiotic resistance, ATPase inhibition, high throughput screening, microbial drug resistance, RecA, SOS response.
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Article History:
Received Date: 23/10/2009
Revision Received Date: 07/12/2009
Acceptance Date: 12/12/2009
Electronic publication date: 26/5/2010
Collection year: 2010
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