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大規模な化学遺伝学により,新しいM.結核抑制剤のクラスが生成される
Eachan O Johnson1,2,3, Emily LaVerriere1,4, Emma Office1
1Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Nature
|June 21, 2019
まとめ
結核 (TB) の新しい薬の発見は極めて重要です. 新しいPROSPECTスクリーニング戦略は 必須遺伝子が欠けているバクテリアの株を検査することで 10倍以上の潜在的な抗生物質化合物を特定し 新しい薬標的を明らかにしました
科学分野:
- 微生物学
- 薬物の発見
- 遺伝学
背景:
- 抗生物質耐性の増加は,特に Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) に対して新しい治療戦略を必要とします.
- 従来のスクリーニング方法は,新しいMTB薬の特定には不十分であることが証明されています.
研究 の 目的:
- Mtbに対する新しい抗生物質化合物の識別のための新しいスクリーニングアプローチであるPROSPECTを開発し,検証する.
- 遺伝情報を組み込むことで 伝統的なスクリーニングの限界を克服する
主な方法:
- 474の遺伝子を狙った 遺伝子組み換えMTB株です
- 複合体ライブラリを 遺伝子組み換え株のプールから 検出した
- 活性化合物とその標的を特定するために 850万以上の化学遺伝子相互作用を分析した.
主要な成果:
- 野生型Mtbのスクリーニングと比較して10倍以上のヒットが特定されました.
- 化学的-遺伝的相互作用は,化合物の標的に対する直接的な洞察を提供した.
- DNAギラゼ,細胞壁,トリプトファン,葉酸生物合成,RNAポリメラーゼ,EfpAを標的とする40以上の化合物を特定しました.
- 最適化されたEfpA阻害剤は,野生型のMtbに対して強力な活性を示した.
結論:
- PROSPECT戦略は,Mtbに対する新しい抗生物質阻害剤の発見に有効です.
- このアプローチにより,従来の薬剤発見では利用できなかった標的の抑制剤を特定できます.
- PROSPECTは,MTBのような優先度の高い病原体に対する薬剤候補の特定を加速します.
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