In this review from MedChemComm‘s forthcoming Natural Product themed issue, Vinayak Agarwal and Satish K. Nair (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) review a number of small molecule natural products, that target aminoacyl tRNA synthetases, which are available for development into useful antibiotics. In particular Agarwal and Nair focus on three different chemical classes:
- Molecules derived from polyketide precursors
- Molecules that occur as phosphoramidate conjugates
- Promising synthetic molecules with distinct modes of action to molecules of class 1 and 2
The factors that undermine the broad-based use of some of these molecules as effective antibiotics in humans are also discussed, as well as strategies to aid in directing development of derivatives with improved pharmacological properties.
Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases as targets for antibiotic development
Vinayak Agarwal and Satish K. Nair
Med. Chem. Commun., 2012,
DOI: 10.1039/C2MD20032E
We will be bringing you more examples of work from this themed issue, guest edited by Professor Christopher T. Walsh andDr Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova, over the next few weeks so make sure you check back for more.
