1ybg

MurA inhibited by a derivative of 5-sulfonoxy-anthranilic acidMurA inhibited by a derivative of 5-sulfonoxy-anthranilic acid

Structural highlights 1ybg is a 4 chain structure with sequence from Enterobacter cloacae. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.6Å Ligands: , Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function MURA_ENTCC Cell wall formation. Adds enolpyruvyl to UDP-N-acetylglucosamine. Target for the antibiotic phosphomycin. Evolutionary Conservation Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf. Publication Abstract from PubMed MurA (UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase, EC 2.5.1.7) catalyzes the first committed step in the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall. It is the target of the naturally occurring, broad-spectrum antibiotic fosfomycin. Fosfomycin, an epoxide, is a relatively poor drug because an ever-increasing number of bacteria have developed resistance to fosfomycin. Thus, there is a critical need for the development of novel drugs that target MurA by a different molecular mode of action. We have identified a new scaffold of potent MurA inhibitors, derivatives of 5-sulfonoxy-anthranilic acid, using high-throughput screening. T6361 and T6362 are competitive inhibitors of MurA with respect to the first substrate, UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UNAG), with a K(i) of 16 microM. The crystal structure of the MurA.T6361 complex at 2.6 angstrom resolution, together with fluorescence data, revealed that the inhibitor targets a loop, Pro112 to Pro121, that is crucial for the structural changes of the enzyme during catalysis. Thus, this new class of MurA inhibitors is not active site-directed but instead obstructs the transition from the open (unliganded) to the closed (UNAG-liganded) enzyme form. The results provide evidence for the existence of a MurA.UNAG collision complex that may be specifically targeted by small molecules different from ground-state analogs of the enzymatic reaction. A novel inhibitor that suspends the induced fit mechanism of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase (MurA).,Eschenburg S, Priestman MA, Abdul-Latif FA, Delachaume C, Fassy F, Schonbrunn E J Biol Chem. 2005 Apr 8;280(14):14070-5. Epub 2005 Feb 8. PMID:15701635 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Enoylpyruvate transferase 3D structures

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