PUBLICATION

((S)-3-Mercapto-2-methylpropanamido)acetic acid derivatives as metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors: Synthesis, kinetic and crystallographic studies

Authors
Liu, S., Jing, L., Yu, Z.J., Wu, C., Zheng, Y., Zhang, E., Chen, Q., Yu, Y., Guo, L., Wu, Y., Li, G.B.
ID
ZDB-PUB-180123-1
Date
2018
Source
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry   145: 649-660 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
Antibacterial resistance, Crystallography, Inhibitor design, Metallo-β-lactamase (MBL), VIM-2
MeSH Terms
  • Acetates/chemical synthesis
  • Acetates/chemistry
  • Acetates/pharmacology*
  • Animals
  • Cell Survival/drug effects
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • HEK293 Cells
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Structure
  • Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Zebrafish
  • beta-Lactamase Inhibitors/chemical synthesis
  • beta-Lactamase Inhibitors/chemistry
  • beta-Lactamase Inhibitors/pharmacology*
  • beta-Lactamases/metabolism*
PubMed
29353720 Full text @ Eur. J. Med. Chem.
Abstract
The emergence and global spread of metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) mediated resistance to almost all β-lactam antibacterials poses a serious threat to public health. Since no clinically useful MBL inhibitors have been reported, there is an urgent need to develop new potent broad-spectrum MBL inhibitors effective against antibacterial resistance. Herein, we synthesized a set of 2-substituted ((S)-3-mercapto-2-methylpropanamido) acetic acid derivatives, some of which displayed potent inhibition with high ligand efficiency to the clinically relevant MBL subtypes, Verona Integron-encoded MBL (VIM)-2 and New Delhi MBL (NDM)-1. Kinetic studies revealed that the inhibitors are not strong zinc chelators in solution, and they bind reversibly to VIM-2 but dissociate very slowly. Crystallographic analyses revealed that they inhibit VIM-2 via chelating the active site zinc ions and interacting with catalytically important residues. Further cell- and zebrafish-based assays revealed that the inhibitors slightly increase susceptibility of E. coli cells expressing VIM-2 to meropenem, and they have no apparent toxicity to the viability of HEK293T cells and the zebrafish embryogenesis.
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