Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Anti-infective therapy using species-specific activators of Staphylococcus aureus ClpP

  • Bingyan Wei,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Pengyu Wang,
  • Yihui Pan,
  • Jiahui Li,
  • Weizhong Chen,
  • Min Zhang,
  • Quanjiang Ji,
  • Wenjuan Wu,
  • Lefu Lan,
  • Jianhua Gan,
  • Cai-Guang Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34753-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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The development of selective ClpP activators targeting only the MRSA isolates without interfering with the human variant is currently challenging. Here, the authors report on the structure-based design of enantiomers of ZG197 and identify the discriminator factor between the proteins.