Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Pyridylpiperazine-based allosteric inhibitors of RND-type multidrug efflux pumps

  • Coline Plé,
  • Heng-Keat Tam,
  • Anais Vieira Da Cruz,
  • Nina Compagne,
  • Juan-Carlos Jiménez-Castellanos,
  • Reinke T. Müller,
  • Elizabeth Pradel,
  • Wuen Ee Foong,
  • Giuliano Malloci,
  • Alexia Ballée,
  • Moritz A. Kirchner,
  • Parisa Moshfegh,
  • Adrien Herledan,
  • Andrea Herrmann,
  • Benoit Deprez,
  • Nicolas Willand,
  • Attilio Vittorio Vargiu,
  • Klaas M. Pos,
  • Marion Flipo,
  • Ruben C. Hartkoorn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27726-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Efflux transporters of the RND family confer resistance to multiple antibiotics in Gram-negative bacteria. Here, the authors identify pyridylpiperazine-based compounds that potentiate antibiotic activity in E. coli through allosteric inhibition of its primary RND transporter.