"Design and Exploration of Novel Boronic Acid Inhibitors Reveals Import" by Marisa L. Winkler, Elizabeth A. Rodkey et al.
 

Design and Exploration of Novel Boronic Acid Inhibitors Reveals Important Interactions with A Clavulanic Acid-Resistant Sulfhydryl-Variable (SHV) β-Lactamase

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-14-2013

Publication Title

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Abstract

Inhibitor resistant (IR) class A β-lactamases pose a significant threat to many current antibiotic combinations. The K234R substitution in the SHV β-lactamase, from Klebsiella pneumoniae, results in resistance to ampicillin/clavulanate. After site-saturation mutagenesis of Lys-234 in SHV, microbiological and biochemical characterization of the resulting β-lactamases revealed that only −Arg conferred resistance to ampicillin/clavulanate. X-ray crystallography revealed two conformations of Arg-234 and Ser-130 in SHV K234R. The movement of Ser-130 is the principal cause of the observed clavulanate resistance. A panel of boronic acid inhibitors was designed and tested against SHV-1 and SHV K234R. A chiral ampicillin analogue was discovered to have a 2.4 ± 0.2 nM Ki for SHV K234R; the chiral ampicillin analogue formed a more complex hydrogen-bonding network in SHV K234R vs SHV-1. Consideration of the spatial position of Ser-130 and Lys-234 and this hydrogen-bonding network will be important in the design of novel antibiotics targeting IR β-lactamases.

Comments

M.L.W. has been supported by Medical Scientist Training Program Training Grant, Case Western Reserve University-T32 GM07250. K.P.W. is funded by the Veterans Affairs Career Development Program. R.A.B. is funded by Veterans Affairs Merit Review Program, VISN 10 GRECC, and NIH grants 1R01-A1063517 and 1R01-A100560.

DOI

10.1021/jm301490d

Volume

56

Issue

3

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