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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Acinetobacter baumannii is an opportunistic Gram-negative bacterial pathogen, associated mostly with hospital-acquired infections. The emergence of drug resistance strains made it necessary to explore new pathways for the development of more effective antibiotics. Enoyl CoA reductase (FabI), a key enzyme in the fatty acid biosynthesis (FAS) pathway, has emerged as a potential target for antibacterial drug development. Earlier reports show that the lead SaFabI inhibitor AFN-1252 can inhibit FabI from other organisms including Escherichia coli and Burkholderia pseudomallei, but with differential potency. In the present work, we show that AFN-1252 is a moderate inhibitor of AbFabI with an IC50 of 216 nM. AFN-1252 stabilized AbFabI with a 4.2 degrees C increase in the melting temperature (Tm ) and, interestingly, the stabilization effect was significantly increased in presence of the cofactor NADH (Tm = 17 degrees C), suggesting the formation of a ternary complex AbFabI: AFN-1252: NADH. X-ray crystallography studies of AbFabI co-crystalized with AFN-1252 and NADH confirmed the ternary complex formation. The critical interactions of AFN-1252 with AbFabI and NADH identified from the co-crystal structure may facilitate the design and development of new drugs against A. baumannii infections by targeting the FAS pathway.

Ternary complex formation of AFN-1252 with Acinetobacter baumannii FabI and NADH: Crystallographic and biochemical studies.,Rao NK, Nataraj V, Ravi M, Panchariya L, Palai K, Talapati SR, Lakshminarasimhan A, Ramachandra M, Antony T Chem Biol Drug Des. 2020 Aug;96(2):704-713. doi: 10.1111/cbdd.13686. Epub 2020, Apr 22. PMID:32227402^[1]

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