Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30209367›Full record

ArticleNature2018

Optimized arylomycins are a new class of Gram-negative antibiotics.

Peter A Smith, Michael F T Koehler, Hany S Girgis, Donghong Yan, Yongsheng Chen, Yuan Chen, James J Crawford, Matthew R Durk, Robert I Higuchi, Jing Kang and 15 more

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Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 142 papers.

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142citing papers in PubMed
12.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

142 citing papers in PubMed, 353 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Peter A Smith *Department of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA. smith.peter@gene.com.
Michael F T Koehler *Department of Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Hany S GirgisDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Donghong YanDepartment of Translational Immunology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Yongsheng ChenDepartment of Chemistry, Wuxi AppTec, Shanghai, China.
Yuan ChenDepartment of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
James J CrawfordDepartment of Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Matthew R DurkDepartment of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Robert I HiguchiRQx Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Jing KangDepartment of Translational Immunology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Jeremy MurrayDepartment of Structural Biology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Prasuna ParaselliRQx Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Summer ParkDepartment of Translational Immunology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Wilson PhungDepartment of Microchem Proteomics, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
John G QuinnDepartment of Biochemical and Cellular Pharmacology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Tucker C RobertsRQx Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Lionel RougéDepartment of Structural Biology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Jacob B SchwarzDepartment of Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Elizabeth SkippingtonDepartment of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
John WaiDepartment of Chemistry, Wuxi AppTec, Shanghai, China.
Min XuDepartment of Translational Immunology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Zhiyong YuDepartment of Chemistry, Wuxi AppTec, Shanghai, China.
Hua ZhangDepartment of Translational Immunology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Man-Wah TanDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Christopher E HeiseDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA. heise.christopher@gene.com.
WuXi AppTec (China) · CNAduro BioTech (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multidrug-resistant bacteria are spreading at alarming rates, and despite extensive efforts no new class of antibiotic with activity against Gram-negative bacteria has been approved in over fifty years. Natural products and their derivatives have a key role in combating Gram-negative pathogens. Here we report chemical optimization of the arylomycins-a class of natural products with weak activity and limited spectrum-to obtain G0775, a molecule with potent, broad-spectrum activity against Gram-negative bacteria. G0775 inhibits the essential bacterial type I signal peptidase, a new antibiotic target, through an unprecedented molecular mechanism. It circumvents existing antibiotic resistance mechanisms and retains activity against contemporary multidrug-resistant Gram-negative clinical isolates in vitro and in several in vivo infection models. These findings demonstrate that optimized arylomycin analogues such as G0775 could translate into new therapies to address the growing threat of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections.

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsBiocatalysisBiological ProductsDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialEscherichia coliGram-Negative BacteriaGram-Negative Bacterial InfectionsKlebsiella pneumoniaeLysineMembrane ProteinsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPeptides, CyclicPorinsProtein BindingProtein DomainsSerine EndopeptidasesAnti-Bacterial Agentsarylomycin A-C16Biological ProductsLysineMembrane ProteinsPeptides, CyclicPorinsSerine Endopeptidasestype I signal peptidase

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PMID30209367
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