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SUBMITTER: He X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2020492 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
He Xin X Alian Akram A Ortiz de Montellano Paul R PR
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 20070815 21
InhA, the enoyl acyl carrier protein reductase (ENR) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the key enzymes involved in the type II fatty acid biosynthesis pathway of M. tuberculosis. We report here the discovery, through high-throughput screening, of a series of arylamides as a novel class of potent InhA inhibitors. These direct InhA inhibitors require no mycobacterial enzymatic activation and thus circumvent the resistance mechanism to antitubercular prodrugs such as INH and ETA that is mo ...[more]