Browsing by Author "Summers, Corey"

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    GroEL/ES inhibitors as potential antibiotics
    (Elsevier, 2016-07) Abdeen, Sanofar; Salim, Nilshad; Mammadova, Najiba; Summers, Corey; Frankson, Rochelle; Ambrose, Andrew J.; Anderson, Gregory G.; Schultz, Peter G.; Horwich, Arthur L.; Chapman, Eli; Johnson, Steven M.; Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, IU School of Medicine
    We recently reported results from a high-throughput screening effort that identified 235 inhibitors of the Escherichia coli GroEL/ES chaperonin system [Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.2014, 24, 786]. As the GroEL/ES chaperonin system is essential for growth under all conditions, we reasoned that targeting GroEL/ES with small molecule inhibitors could be a viable antibacterial strategy. Extending from our initial screen, we report here the antibacterial activities of 22 GroEL/ES inhibitors against a panel of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including E. coli, Bacillus subtilis, Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter cloacae. GroEL/ES inhibitors were more effective at blocking the proliferation of Gram-positive bacteria, in particular S. aureus, where lead compounds exhibited antibiotic effects from the low-μM to mid-nM range. While several compounds inhibited the human HSP60/10 refolding cycle, some were able to selectively target the bacterial GroEL/ES system. Despite inhibiting HSP60/10, many compounds exhibited low to no cytotoxicity against human liver and kidney cell lines. Two lead candidates emerged from the panel, compounds 8 and 18, that exhibit >50-fold selectivity for inhibiting S. aureus growth compared to liver or kidney cell cytotoxicity. Compounds 8 and 18 inhibited drug-sensitive and methicillin-resistant S. aureus strains with potencies comparable to vancomycin, daptomycin, and streptomycin, and are promising candidates to explore for validating the GroEL/ES chaperonin system as a viable antibiotic target.
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    Sulfonamido 2 arylbenzoxazole GroEL/ES inhibitors are potent antibacterials against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
    (ACS, 2018) Abdeen, Sanofar; Kunkle, Trent; Salim, Nilshad; Ray, Anne-Marie; Mammadova, Najiba; Summers, Corey; Stevens, Mckayla; Ambrose, Andrew J.; Park, Yangshin; Schultz, Peter G.; Horwich, Arthur L.; Hoang, Quyen; Chapman, Eli; Johnson, Steven M.; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine
    Extending from a study we recently published examining the antitrypanosomal effects of a series of GroEL/ES inhibitors based on a pseudosymmetrical bis-sulfonamido-2-phenylbenzoxazole scaffold, here, we report the antibiotic effects of asymmetric analogs of this scaffold against a panel of bacteria known as the ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species). While GroEL/ES inhibitors were largely ineffective against K. pneumoniae, A. baumannii, P. aeruginosa, and E. cloacae (Gram-negative bacteria), many analogs were potent inhibitors of E. faecium and S. aureus proliferation (Gram-positive bacteria, EC50 values of the most potent analogs were in the 1–2 μM range). Furthermore, even though some compounds inhibit human HSP60/10 biochemical functions in vitro (IC50 values in the 1–10 μM range), many of these exhibited moderate to low cytotoxicity to human liver and kidney cells (CC50 values > 20 μM).