Stereoselective Synthesis, Docking, and Biological Evaluation of Difluoroindanediol-Based MenE Inhibitors as Antibiotics
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- 作者：Christopher E. EvansJoe S. Matarlo ; Peter J. Tonge ; Derek S. Tan
- 刊名：Organic Letters
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：December 16, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：18
- 期：24
- 页码：6384-6387
- 全文大小：389K
- ISSN：1523-7052
文摘
A stereoselective synthesis has been developed to provide all four side-chain stereoisomers of difluoroindanediol 2, the mixture of which was previously identified as an inhibitor of the o-succinylbenzoate-CoA synthetase MenE in bacterial menaquinone biosynthesis, having promising in vitro activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Only the (1R,3S)-diastereomer inhibited the biochemical activity of MenE, consistent with computational docking studies, and this diastereomer also exhibited in vitro antibacterial activity comparable to that of the mixture. However, mechanism-of-action studies suggest that this inhibitor and its diastereomers may act via other mechanisms beyond inhibition of menaquinone biosynthesis.