Discovery of Novel Mycobacterial DNA Gyrase B Inhibitors: In Silico and In Vitro Biological Evaluation.
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| Abstract |    :  
                  DNA gyrase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a type II topoisomerase that ensures the regulation of DNA topology and has been genetically demonstrated to be a bactericidal drug target. Availability of crystal structure of M. smegmatics GyrB in complex with one of the aminopyrazinamides facilitated us to employ structure-based virtual screening approach to obtain new hits from a commercial library of Asinex database using energy-optimized pharmacophore modeling. Further the model was validated using enrichment calculations, and finally three models were employed for high-throughput virtual screening and docking to identify novel DNA gyrase B inhibitors. This study led to the identification of fifteen potential compounds with IC50 values in the range of 1.5-45.5 µM against M. smegmatics GyrB and 1.16-25 µM in MTB supercoiling assay. Lead 11 emerged as the most potential compound, exhibiting inhibition of MTB DNA gyrase supercoiling with an IC50 of 1.16±0.25 µM, and M. smegmatics GyrB IC50 of 1.5±0.12 µM and hence could be further developed as novel inhibitor for mycobacterial GyrB.  | 
        
| Year of Publication |    :  
                  2014 
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| Journal |    :  
                  Molecular informatics 
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| Volume |    :  
                  33 
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| Issue |    :  
                  9 
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| Number of Pages |    :  
                  597-609 
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| ISSN Number |    :  
                  1868-1743 
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| DOI |    :  
                  10.1002/minf.201400058 
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| Short Title |    :  
                  Mol Inform 
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