scholarly journals Crystal structure of a phosphotransacetylase from Streptococcus pyogenes

2004 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Steven Xu ◽  
Dong-Hae Shin ◽  
Ramona Pufan ◽  
Hisao Yokota ◽  
Rosalind Kim ◽  
...  
Structure ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghyun Ka ◽  
Hasup Lee ◽  
Yi-Deun Jung ◽  
Kyunggon Kim ◽  
Chaok Seok ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 1016-1019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Won-Ho Lee ◽  
Young Kwan Kim ◽  
Ki Hyun Nam ◽  
Amit Priyadarshi ◽  
Eun Hye Lee ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behnoush Hajian ◽  
Jolanta Krucinska ◽  
Michael Martins ◽  
Narendran G-Dayanan ◽  
Kishore Viswanathan ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTStreptococcus pyogenes, a beta-hemolytic bacterium, causes a wide spectrum of infections in human including pharyngitis, tonsillitis, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, and necrotizing fasciitis. Streptococcal infections can also exist as co-infection with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) combination has been used for treatment of S. pyogenes and MRSA co-infection. However, resistance to TMP, an inhibitor of dihydrofolate reductase enzyme (DHFR), has challenged the efficacy of TMP-SMX combination. We explored the activity of a series of novel DHFR inhibitors against S. pyogenes. This study identified potent inhibitors of DHFR enzyme from S. pyogenes with excellent inhibitory activity against the growth of the live bacteria. We determined, for the first time, the crystal structure of S. pyogenes DHFR which provides structural insights into design and development of antifolate agents against this global pathogen.


2014 ◽  
Vol 111 (18) ◽  
pp. 6714-6719 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Trastoy ◽  
J. V. Lomino ◽  
B. G. Pierce ◽  
L. G. Carter ◽  
S. Gunther ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 314 (4) ◽  
pp. 789-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazutaka Murayama ◽  
Peter Orth ◽  
Ana B de la Hoz ◽  
Juan C Alonso ◽  
Wolfram Saenger

2009 ◽  
Vol 386 (3) ◽  
pp. 754-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd F. Kagawa ◽  
Maurice R. O'Connell ◽  
Pania Mouat ◽  
Max Paoli ◽  
Paul W. O'Toole ◽  
...  

PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. e15969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hae Joo Kang ◽  
Fasséli Coulibaly ◽  
Thomas Proft ◽  
Edward N. Baker

Author(s):  
Douglas L. Dorset ◽  
Anthony J. Hancock

Lipids containing long polymethylene chains were among the first compounds subjected to electron diffraction structure analysis. It was only recently realized, however, that various distortions of thin lipid microcrystal plates, e.g. bends, polar group and methyl end plane disorders, etc. (1-3), restrict coherent scattering to the methylene subcell alone, particularly if undistorted molecular layers have well-defined end planes. Thus, ab initio crystal structure determination on a given single uncharacterized natural lipid using electron diffraction data can only hope to identify the subcell packing and the chain axis orientation with respect to the crystal surface. In lipids based on glycerol, for example, conformations of long chains and polar groups about the C-C bonds of this moiety still would remain unknown.One possible means of surmounting this difficulty is to investigate structural analogs of the material of interest in conjunction with the natural compound itself. Suitable analogs to the glycerol lipids are compounds based on the three configurational isomers of cyclopentane-1,2,3-triol shown in Fig. 1, in which three rotameric forms of the natural glycerol derivatives are fixed by the ring structure (4-7).


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