A cautionary tale of structure-guided inhibitor development against an essential enzyme in the aspartate-biosynthetic pathway.
Pavlovsky, A.G., Thangavelu, B., Bhansali, P., Viola, R.E.(2014) Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 70: 3244-3252
- PubMed: 25478842 
- DOI: 10.1107/S1399004714023979
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
4R3N, 4R3W, 4R41, 4R4J, 4R51, 4R54, 4R5H, 4R5M - PubMed Abstract: 
The aspartate pathway is essential for the production of the amino acids required for protein synthesis and of the metabolites needed in bacterial development. This pathway also leads to the production of several classes of quorum-sensing molecules that can trigger virulence in certain microorganisms ...