CHIR-090 is a potent, slow, tight-binding inhibitor of the LpxC deacetylase from the hyperthermophile Aquifex aeolicus, and it has excellent antibiotic activity against P. aeruginosa and E. coli, as judged by disk diffusion assays. CHIR-090 is also a two-step slow, tight-binding inhibitor of Escherichia coli LpxC with Ki=4 nM. CHIR-090 at low nM levels inhibits LpxC orthologues from diverse Gram-negative pathogens, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Neisseria meningitidis, and Helicobacter pylori. In contrast, CHIR-090 is a relatively weak competitive and conventional inhibitor (lacking slow, tight-binding kinetics) of LpxC from Rhizobium leguminosarum (Ki=340 nM), a Gram-negative plant endosymbiont that is resistant to this compound. An E. coli construct in which the chromosomal lpxC gene is replaced by R. leguminosarum lpxC is resistant to CHIR-090 up to 100 μg/mL, or 400 times above the minimal inhibitory concentration for wild-type E. coli. CHIR-090, a very potent, slow, tight-binding inhibitor of Aquifex aeolicus LpxC, the sequence of which is 31 % identical to E. coli LpxC. CHIR-090 has remarkable antibiotic activity against E. coli and P. aeruginosa, comparable to ciprofloxacin, as judged by disk diffusion assays.
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