Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of 1,3-Dideazapurine-Like 7-Amino-5-Hydroxymethyl-Benzimidazole Ribonucleoside Analogues as Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors

Autor: Bao-Le Zhang, Stephen D. Weeks, Arthur Van Aerschot, Manesh Nautiyal, Steff De Graef, Sergei V. Strelkov, L. Pang, Eveline Lescrinier, Jef Rozenski, Bharat Gadakh
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Purine
Benzimidazole
sugar-base condensation
Protein Conformation
Stereochemistry
Pharmaceutical Science
Crystallography
X-Ray

01 natural sciences
Article
Analytical Chemistry
Amino Acyl-tRNA Synthetases
lcsh:QD241-441
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
lcsh:Organic chemistry
Drug Discovery
Humans
Structure–activity relationship
aminoacyl sulfamoylated nucleosides
Hydroxymethyl
Enzyme Inhibitors
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
aaRS inhibition
030304 developmental biology
chemistry.chemical_classification
0303 health sciences
010405 organic chemistry
Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase
structure-activity relationship
Organic Chemistry
heterocycle glycosylation
Ribonucleoside
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
0104 chemical sciences
Amino acid
chemistry
Chemistry (miscellaneous)
Molecular Medicine
Benzimidazoles
Ribonucleosides
Isoleucine
Zdroj: Molecules, Vol 25, Iss 4751, p 4751 (2020)
Molecules
Volume 25
Issue 20
'Molecules ', vol: 25, pages: 4751-1-4751-24 (2020)
ISSN: 1420-3049
Popis: Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) have become viable targets for the development of antimicrobial agents due to their crucial role in protein translation. A series of six amino acids were coupled to the purine-like 7-amino-5-hydroxymethylbenzimidazole nucleoside analogue following an optimized synthetic pathway. These compounds were designed as aaRS inhibitors and can be considered as 1,3-dideazaadenine analogues carrying a 2-hydroxymethyl substituent. Despite our intentions to obtain N1-glycosylated 4-aminobenzimidazole congeners, resembling the natural purine nucleosides glycosylated at the N9-position, we obtained the N3-glycosylated benzimidazole derivatives as the major products, resembling the respective purine N7-glycosylated nucleosides. A series of X-ray crystal structures of class I and II aaRSs in complex with newly synthesized compounds revealed interesting interactions of these &ldquo
base-flipped&rdquo
analogues with their targets. While the exocyclic amine of the flipped base mimics the reciprocal interaction of the N3-purine atom of aminoacyl-sulfamoyl adenosine (aaSA) congeners, the hydroxymethyl substituent of the flipped base apparently loses part of the standard interactions of the adenine N1 and the N6-amine as seen with aaSA analogues. Upon the evaluation of the inhibitory potency of the newly obtained analogues, nanomolar inhibitory activities were noted for the leucine and isoleucine analogues targeting class I aaRS enzymes, while rather weak inhibitory activity against the corresponding class II aaRSs was observed. This class bias could be further explained by detailed structural analysis.
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