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ArticlePloS one2017

Differential inhibition of adenylylated and deadenylylated forms of M. tuberculosis glutamine synthetase as a drug discovery platform.

A Theron, R L Roth, H Hoppe, C Parkinson, C W van der Westhuyzen, S Stoychev, I Wiid, R D Pietersen, B Baker, C P Kenyon

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Potential therapeutic approaches for a sleeping pathogen: tuberculosis a case for bioinorganic chemistry.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2020
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  6. Mode-of-action profiling reveals glutamine synthetase as a collateral metabolic vulnerability ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

A TheronCSIR Biosciences, Pretoria, South Africa.
R L RothCSIR Biosciences, Pretoria, South Africa.
H HoppeCSIR Biosciences, Pretoria, South Africa.
C ParkinsonSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW, Australia.
C W van der WesthuyzenCSIR Biosciences, Pretoria, South Africa.
S StoychevCSIR Biosciences, Pretoria, South Africa.
I WiidDST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
R D PietersenDST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
B BakerDST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, Cape Town, South Africa.
C P KenyonCSIR Biosciences, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1590-7230
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research · ZASouth African Medical Research Council · ZACharles Sturt University · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glutamine synthetase is a ubiquitous central enzyme in nitrogen metabolism that is controlled by up to four regulatory mechanisms, including adenylylation of some or all of the twelve subunits by adenylyl transferase. It is considered a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of tuberculosis, being essential for the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and is found extracellularly only in the pathogenic Mycobacterium strains. Human glutamine synthetase is not regulated by the adenylylation mechanism, so the adenylylated form of bacterial glutamine synthetase is of particular interest. Previously published reports show that, when M. tuberculosis glutamine synthetase is expressed in Escherichia coli, the E. coli adenylyl transferase does not optimally adenylylate the M. tuberculosis glutamine synthetase. Here, we demonstrate the production of soluble adenylylated M. tuberulosis glutamine synthetase in E. coli by the co-expression of M. tuberculosis glutamine synthetase and M. tuberculosis adenylyl transferase. The differential inhibition of adenylylated M. tuberulosis glutamine synthetase and deadenylylated M. tuberulosis glutamine synthetase by ATP based scaffold inhibitors are reported. Compounds selected on the basis of their enzyme inhibition were also shown to inhibit M. tuberculosis in the BACTEC 460TB™ assay as well as the intracellular inhibition of M. tuberculosis in a mouse bone-marrow derived macrophage assay.

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Drug DiscoveryAdenosine MonophosphateAnimalsAntitubercular AgentsDose-Response Relationship, DrugGlutamate-Ammonia LigaseHeLa CellsHumansMiceMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMycobacterium tuberculosisAdenosine MonophosphateAntitubercular AgentsGlutamate-Ammonia Ligase

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PMID28972974
PMCPMC5626031
OpenAlexW2762248397

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