Laurent R Chiarelli, Giorgia Mori, Beatrice Silvia Orena, Marta Esposito, Thomas Lane, Ana Luisa de Jesus Lopes Ribeiro, Giulia Degiacomi, Júlia Zemanová, Sára Szádocka, Stanislav Huszár, Zuzana Palčeková, Marcello Manfredi, Fabio Gosetti, Joël Lelièvre, Lluis Ballell, Elena Kazakova, Vadim Makarov, Emilio Marengo, Katarina Mikusova, Stewart T Cole, Giovanna Riccardi, Sean Ekins, Maria Rosalia Pasca
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiological agent of the infectious disease tuberculosis, kills approximately 1.5 million people annually, while the spread of multidrug-resistant strains is of great global concern. Thus, continuous efforts to identify new antitubercular drugs as well as novel targets are crucial. Recently, two prodrugs activated by the monooxygenase EthA, 7947882 and 7904688, which target the CTP synthetase PyrG, were identified and characterized. In this work, microbiological, biochemical, and in silico methodologies were used to demonstrate that both prodrugs possess a second target, the pantothenate kinase PanK...
February 16, 2018: Scientific Reports