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SUBMITTER: Weide T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2901175 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Weide Timo T Saldanha S Adrian SA Minond Dmitriy D Spicer Timothy P TP Fotsing Joseph R JR Spaargaren Michael M Frère Jean-Marie JM Bebrone Carine C Sharpless K Barry KB Hodder Peter S PS Fokin Valery V VV
ACS medicinal chemistry letters 20100701 4
Metallo-ß-lactamases (MBL) are an emerging cause of bacterial resistance to antibiotic treatment. The VIM-2 ß-lactamase is the most commonly encountered MBL in clinical isolates worldwide. Described here are potent and selective small molecule inhibitors of VIM-2 containing the arylsulfonyl-NH-1,2,3-triazole chemotype that potentiate the efficacy of the ß-lactam, imipenem, in E. coli. ...[more]