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Publication Abstract from PubMed

In this paper, we describe the screening of a 14640-compound library using a novel whole mycobacteria phenotypic assay to discover inhibitors of EthR, a transcriptional repressor implicated in the innate resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the second-line antituberculosis drug ethionamide. From this screening a new chemical family of EthR inhibitors bearing an N-phenylphenoxyacetamide motif was identified. The X-ray structure of the most potent compound crystallized with EthR inspired the synthesis of a 960-member focused library. These compounds were tested in vitro using a rapid thermal shift assay on EthR to accelerate the optimization. The best compounds were synthesized on a larger scale and confirmed as potent ethionamide boosters on M. tuberculosis -infected macrophages. Finally, the cocrystallization of the best optimized analogue with EthR revealed an unexpected reorientation of the ligand in the binding pocket.

Discovery of novel N-phenylphenoxyacetamide derivatives as EthR inhibitors and ethionamide boosters by combining high-throughput screening and synthesis.,Flipo M, Willand N, Lecat-Guillet N, Hounsou C, Desroses M, Leroux F, Lens Z, Villeret V, Wohlkonig A, Wintjens R, Christophe T, Kyoung Jeon H, Locht C, Brodin P, Baulard AR, Deprez B J Med Chem. 2012 Jul 26;55(14):6391-402. Epub 2012 Jul 17. PMID:22738293^[3]

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