Discovery of Inhibitors of Escherichia coli Methionine Aminopeptidase with the Fe (II)-Form Selectivity and Antibacterial Activity†

…, SC Chai, M Huang, HZ He, TD Hurley…

Index: Wang, Wen-Long; Chai, Sergio C.; Huang, Min; He, Hong-Zhen; Hurley, Thomas D.; Ye, Qi-Zhuang Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2008 , vol. 51, # 19 p. 6110 - 6120

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Abstract

Methionine aminopeptidase (MetAP) is a promising target to develop novel antibiotics, because all bacteria express MetAP from a single gene that carries out the essential function of removing N-terminal methionine from nascent proteins. Divalent metal ions play a critical role in the catalysis, and there is an urgent need to define the actual metal used by MetAP in bacterial cells. By high throughput screening, we identified a novel class of catechol- ...