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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are ubiquitous and essential enzymes for protein synthesis and also a variety of other metabolic processes, especially in bacterial species. Bacterial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases represent attractive and validated targets for antimicrobial drug discovery if issues of prokaryotic versus eukaryotic selectivity and antibiotic resistance generation can be addressed. We have determined high-resolution X-ray crystal structures of the Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus seryl-tRNA synthetases in complex with aminoacyl adenylate analogues and applied a structure-based drug discovery approach to explore and identify a series of small molecule inhibitors that selectively inhibit bacterial seryl-tRNA synthetases with greater than 2 orders of magnitude compared to their human homologue, demonstrating a route to the selective chemical inhibition of these bacterial targets.

Structure-Guided Enhancement of Selectivity of Chemical Probe Inhibitors Targeting Bacterial Seryl-tRNA Synthetase.,Cain R, Salimraj R, Punekar AS, Bellini D, Fishwick CWG, Czaplewski L, Scott DJ, Harris G, Dowson CG, Lloyd AJ, Roper DI J Med Chem. 2019 Nov 14;62(21):9703-9717. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b01131. Epub, 2019 Nov 5. PMID:31626547^[1]

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