Optimization and Mechanistic Characterization of Pyridopyrimidine Inhibitors of Bacterial Biotin Carboxylase.
Andrews, L.D., Kane, T.R., Dozzo, P., Haglund, C.M., Hilderbrandt, D.J., Linsell, M.S., Machajewski, T., McEnroe, G., Serio, A.W., Wlasichuk, K.B., Neau, D.B., Pakhomova, S., Waldrop, G.L., Sharp, M., Pogliano, J., Cirz, R.T., Cohen, F.(2019) J Med Chem 62: 7489-7505
- PubMed: 31306011 
- DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00625
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6OI8, 6OI9 - PubMed Abstract: 
A major challenge for new antibiotic discovery is predicting the physicochemical properties that enable small molecules to permeate Gram-negative bacterial membranes. We have applied physicochemical lessons from previous work to redesign and improve the antibacterial potency of pyridopyrimidine inhibitors of biotin carboxylase (BC) by up to 64-fold and 16-fold against Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa , respectively ...