Development of a screening assay to measure the loss of antibacterial activity in the presence of proteins: its use in optimizing compound structure

Autor: Zhuoliang Chen, Ronald Eugene White, Siddhartha Roychoudhury, Wei-Ping Lu, Thomas P. Demuth, Jessica L. Brill
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Journal of biomolecular screening. 8(5)
ISSN: 1087-0571
Popis: An assay quantifying the loss of antibacterial potency of compounds, originally identified via target-based screening, in the presence of increasing albumin concentration was developed and used as a technique to measure potential association of compounds with proteins unrelated to their molecular target. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of test compounds were measured against Staphylococcus aureusstrain ATCC 6538 in the presence of 0-12µM bovine serum albumin (BSA). The linear regression coefficient r 2 for the correlation between MIC and BSAconcentration was ≥ 0.9 for 49 and > 0.5 for 62 out of a total of 69 compounds tested. The slope of these correlations varied widely from < 1 to 99, suggesting that the loss of potency due to a given concentration of BSAcould vary from compound to compound due to wide variation in the apparent stoichiometry for protein-ligand association. Follow-up experiments using additional proteins and a fatty acid, oleic acid, showed that this compound:BSAassociation was not protein specific, but was likely driven by hydrophobicity. The method described in this report can be used to optimize compound design and minimize this undesirable effect. (Journal of Biomolecular Screening2003:555-558)
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