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ReviewAccounts of chemical research2021

Structure- and Ligand-Dynamics-Based Design of Novel Antibiotics Targeting Lipid A Enzymes LpxC and LpxH in Gram-Negative Bacteria.

Pei Zhou, Jiyong Hong

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Review in Accounts of chemical research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Novel Antibacterial Approaches and Therapeutic Strategies.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  14. Signaling through theJournal of bacteriology · 2024
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  15. Antibiotic class with potent in vivo activity targeting lipopolysaccharide synthesis in Gram-negative bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pei ZhouDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27710, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7823-3416
Jiyong HongDepartment of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5253-0949
Duke University · US

Funding

BIOSYNTHESIS AND FUNCTION OF LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDESR01GM051310 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHOU, PEI · 1994 to 2013
$8.1M
LpxC inhibitors as a novel class of antibiotics against N. gonorrhoeaeR01AI094475 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI NICHOLAS, ROBERT A, ZHOU, PEI · 2011 to 2015
$3.7M
Structure and Mechanism of LpxC in Lipid A BiosynthesisR01AI055588 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHOU, PEI · 2003 to 2012
$3.0M
Discovery and validation of broadly effective LpxH inhibitors as novel therapeutics against multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogensR01AI139216 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHOU, PEI · 2019 to 2022
$1.9M
Biochemistry and Structure of Lipid A EnzymesR01GM115355 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHOU, PEI · 2016 to 2019
$1.2M
Discovery and validation of broadly effective LpxH inhibitors as novel therapeutics against multi-drug resistant Gram-negative pathogensR56AI139216 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHOU, PEI · 2018 to 2018
$393k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI055588NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI094475NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI139216NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI139216NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM051310NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial infections caused by multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens pose a serious threat to public health. Gram-negative bacteria are characterized by the enrichment of lipid A-anchored lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in the outer leaflet of their outer membrane. Constitutive biosynthesis of lipid A via the Raetz pathway is essential for bacterial viability and fitness in the human host. The inhibition of early-stage lipid A enzymes such as LpxC not only suppresses the growth of

Indexed as

Molecular Dynamics SimulationAmidohydrolasesAnti-Bacterial AgentsDrug DesignEnzyme InhibitorsGram-Negative BacteriaHumansLigandsMolecular StructurePyrophosphatasesAmidohydrolasesAnti-Bacterial AgentsEnzyme InhibitorsLigandsPyrophosphatasesUDP-2,3-diacylglucosamine pyrophosphataseUDP-3-O-acyl-N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase

Identifiers

PMID33720682
PMCPMC9593327
OpenAlexW3136102721

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