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SUBMITTER: Evans CE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5171203 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Evans Christopher E CE Matarlo Joe S JS Tonge Peter J PJ Tan Derek S DS
Organic letters 20161201 24
A stereoselective synthesis has been developed to provide all four side-chain stereoisomers of difluoroindanediol 2, the mixture of which was previously identified as an inhibitor of the o-succinylbenzoate-CoA synthetase MenE in bacterial menaquinone biosynthesis, having promising in vitro activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Only the (1R,3S)-diastereomer inhibited the biochemical activity of MenE, consistent with computational docking stud ...[more]