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The action of cholera toxin and E. coli heat-labile enterotoxin can be inhibited by blocking their binding to the cell-surface receptor GM1. We have used anchor-based design to create 15 receptor binding inhibitors that contain the previously characterized inhibitor MNPG as a substructure. In ELISA assays, all 15 compounds exhibited increased potency relative to MNPG. Binding affinities for two compounds, each containing a morpholine ring linked to MNPG via a hydrophobic tail, were characterized by pulsed ultrafiltration (PUF) and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Crystal structures for these compounds bound to toxin B pentamer revealed a conserved binding mode for the MNPG moiety, with multiple binding modes adopted by the attached morpholine derivatives. The observed binding interactions can be exploited in the design of improved toxin binding inhibitors.

1JR0 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio_cholerae Vibrio cholerae] with <scene name='pdbligand=A24:'>A24</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligand ligand]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=1JR0 OCA].  

[[Category: Hol, W G.J.]]

[[Category: Merritt, E A.]]

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