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Investigation Of The Biosynthesis Of The Nucleoside Antibiotic Sphaerimicin, Jonathan Overbay
Investigation Of The Biosynthesis Of The Nucleoside Antibiotic Sphaerimicin, Jonathan Overbay
Theses and Dissertations--Pharmacy
Antibiotic-resistance has become a widespread problem in the United States and across the globe. Meanwhile, new antibiotics are entering the clinic at an alarmingly low rate. Highly-modified nucleosides, a class of natural products often produced by actinobacteria, target MraY bacterial translocase I. MraY is a clinically unexploited enzyme target that is ubiquitous and essential to peptidoglycan cell wall biosynthesis. The nucleoside antibiotics known vary in efficacy and the functionalities contributing to improved activity is poorly understood. Sphaerimicin, a newly discovered modified nucleoside, has potent inhibitory activity with an IC50 of 13.65 nM against MraY. In general, sphaerimicin is primarily effective …