Natural product derivatives with bactericidal activity against Gram-positive pathogens including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis

  • Joshua B. Phillips
  • , Adrienne E. Smith
  • , Brian R. Kusche
  • , Bradley A. Bessette
  • , P. Whitney Swain
  • , Stephen C. Bergmeier
  • , Mark C. McMills
  • , Dennis L. Wright
  • , Nigel D. Priestley

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Abstract

We have shown that the intentional engineering of a natural product biosynthesis pathway is a useful way to generate stereochemically complex scaffolds for use in the generation of combinatorial libraries that capture the structural features of both natural products and synthetic compounds. Analysis of a prototype library based upon nonactic acid lead to the discovery of triazole-containing nonactic acid analogs, a new structural class of antibiotic that exhibits bactericidal activity against drug resistant, Gram-positive pathogens including Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5936-5938
Number of pages3
JournalBioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Volume20
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2010

Funding

This work was supported by NIH awards to N.D.P. ( CA77347 ) and D.L.W. ( AI070248 ).

Funder number
AI070248
R01CA077347

    Keywords

    • Antibiotic
    • Biosynthesis
    • Nonactin
    • Triazoloester

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