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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

A small-molecule inhibitor of BamA impervious to efflux and the outer membrane permeability barrier.

Elizabeth M Hart, Angela M Mitchell, Anna Konovalova, Marcin Grabowicz, Jessica Sheng, Xiaoqing Han, Frances P Rodriguez-Rivera, Adam G Schwaid, Juliana C Malinverni, Carl J Balibar and 12 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

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112citing papers in PubMed
6.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

112 citing papers in PubMed, 190 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. A mechanism for substrate quality control in outer membrane protein assembly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. A fluorescent reporter and single-turnover kinetics reveal insight into BAM complex function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. ModelingbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  18. Novel Antibacterial Approaches and Therapeutic Strategies.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  20. Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance: Innovative Drugs in Antibacterial Research.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elizabeth M HartDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Angela M MitchellDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Anna KonovalovaDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.ORCID 0000-0002-2238-8849
Marcin GrabowiczDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Jessica ShengDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540.
Xiaoqing HanChemical Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033.
Frances P Rodriguez-RiveraChemical Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033.
Adam G SchwaidChemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Boston, MA 02115.
Juliana C MalinverniInfectious Disease, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA 19486.
Carl J BalibarInfectious Disease, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA 19486.
Smaranda BodeaChemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., Boston, MA 02115.
Qian SiPharmacology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA 19486.
Hao WangInfectious Disease, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA 19486.
Michelle F HomsherBiologics and Vaccine Analytics, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA 19486.
Ronald E PainterPharmacology, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA 19486.
Anthony K OgawaChemistry, Merck & Co., Inc., South San Francisco, CA 94080.
Holly SutterlinBiology, Prokaryotics, Inc., Union, NJ 07083.
Terry RoemerBiology, Prokaryotics, Inc., Union, NJ 07083.
Todd A BlackInfectious Disease, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA 19486.
Deborah M RothmanChemical Biology, Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ 07033.
Scott S WalkerInfectious Disease, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA 19486.
Thomas J SilhavyDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540; tsilhavy@princeton.edu.
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · USUnited States Military Academy · US

Funding

Biogenesis and maintenance of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteriaR35GM118024 · NIGMS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI SILHAVY, THOMAS J. · 2016 to 2025
$8.1M
Investigating the mycomembrane protein assembly pathwayK99AI190054 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Elizabeth Mary Hart · 2025 to 2026
$227k
NIAID NIH HHS K99 AI190054NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118024
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of new antimicrobial drugs is a priority to combat the increasing spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria. This development is especially problematic in gram-negative bacteria due to the outer membrane (OM) permeability barrier and multidrug efflux pumps. Therefore, we screened for compounds that target essential, nonredundant, surface-exposed processes in gram-negative bacteria. We identified a compound, MRL-494, that inhibits assembly of OM proteins (OMPs) by the β-barrel assembly machine (BAM complex). The BAM complex contains one essential surface-exposed protein, BamA. We constructed a

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBiological TransportCell MembraneCell Membrane PermeabilityDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalDrug Resistance, BacterialEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsProtein MultimerizationTriazinesAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Outer Membrane ProteinsBamA protein, E coliEscherichia coli ProteinsTriazinesantibiotic developmentBAM complexEscherichia coligram-negative bacteriaouter membrane biogenesis

Identifiers

PMID31591200
PMCPMC6815139
OpenAlexW2979988361

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