Drug design from the cryptic inhibitor envelope.
Lee, C.J., Liang, X., Wu, Q., Najeeb, J., Zhao, J., Gopalaswamy, R., Titecat, M., Sebbane, F., Lemaitre, N., Toone, E.J., Zhou, P.(2016) Nat Commun 7: 10638-10638
- PubMed: 26912110 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10638
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5DRO, 5DRP, 5DRQ, 5DRR - PubMed Abstract: 
Conformational dynamics plays an important role in enzyme catalysis, allosteric regulation of protein functions and assembly of macromolecular complexes. Despite these well-established roles, such information has yet to be exploited for drug design. Here we show by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy that inhibitors of LpxC--an essential enzyme of the lipid A biosynthetic pathway in Gram-negative bacteria and a validated novel antibiotic target--access alternative, minor population states in solution in addition to the ligand conformation observed in crystal structures ...