Measurement of Novel Boronic Acid-Based Inhibitors of Escherichia Coli AmpC Beta-Lactamase
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Collier, Sarah
Issue Date
2000
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Thesis
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en_US
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Clinically used 13-lactamase inhibitors such as clavulanic acid competitively inhibit
13-lactamases and thereby enhance the function of antibiotics against resistant bacterial.
However, because all of the currently used inhibitors have a 13-lactam core, bacteria have
been able to develop resistance mechanisms on a relatively short time scale.l Novel
13-lactamase inhibitors without a 13-lactam core are urgently needed. Boronic acid has
long been known to be a weak 13-lactamase inhibitor (Kj = 4 mM).2 Structural
modification ofboronic acid has produced more effective 13-lactamase inhibitors. The
lowest reported Ki for a boronic acid derivative is 27 nM for benzo[b ]thiophene.3
However, benzo[b]thiophene's low level of biological activity has necessitated a search
for a more successful boronic acid derivative. In this study, several boronic acid
derivatives were tested for their inhibitory activity against the 13-lactamase E. coli AmpC
using UV-Vis spectroscopy. The amount of inhibition obtained with each compound was
then compared to other boronic acid derivatives previously studied. The goal of this
research was to provide direction for future structure-based drug design ofboronic acid
derivatives. The IC-50 of five boronic acid compounds was measured. The IC-50 values
range from 840nM to 70 ~M, with apparent Kjs between 250 nM and 20 ~M.
Additionally, the Kj of two more potent compounds was measured directly. The Kj of
compound 1was 83 nM, while the Kj of compound 2 was 60 nM. An examination of the
crystal structure of 1complexed with AmpC indicates that the second boronic acid group
is within hydrogen-bonding distance of a serine residue near the active site of the protein
(Ser206). This interaction likely contributes to the strength of 1as an inhibitor,
suggesting that similar diboronic acids may be useful targets for structure-based drug
design.
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