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ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2018

A Novel Inhibitor of the LolCDE ABC Transporter Essential for Lipoprotein Trafficking in Gram-Negative Bacteria.

Nicholas N Nickerson, Christine C Jao, Yiming Xu, John Quinn, Elizabeth Skippington, Mary Kate Alexander, Anh Miu, Nicholas Skelton, Jessica V Hankins, Michael S Lopez and 3 more

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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55 citing papers in PubMed, 84 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Nicholas N NickersonDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Christine C JaoDepartment of Structural Biology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Yiming XuDepartment of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
John QuinnDepartment of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Elizabeth SkippingtonDepartment of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Mary Kate AlexanderDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Anh MiuDepartment of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Nicholas SkeltonDepartment of Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Jessica V HankinsDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Michael S LopezDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Christopher M KothDepartment of Structural Biology, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Steven RutherfordDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA.
Mireille NishiyamaDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California, USA mireille.nishiyama@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The outer membrane is an essential structural component of Gram-negative bacteria that is composed of lipoproteins, lipopolysaccharides, phospholipids, and integral β-barrel membrane proteins. A dedicated machinery, called the Lol system, ensures proper trafficking of lipoproteins from the inner to the outer membrane. The LolCDE ABC transporter is the inner membrane component, which is essential for bacterial viability. Here, we report a novel pyrrolopyrimidinedione compound, G0507, which was identified in a phenotypic screen for inhibitors of

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGram-Negative BacteriaLipoproteinsMutationProtein TransportAnti-Bacterial AgentsEscherichia coli ProteinsLipoproteinsantibiotic discoverylipoprotein traffickingLolCDEouter membrane biogenesisphenotypic assaystress response

Identifiers

PMID29339384
PMCPMC5913989
OpenAlexW2782567096

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