Identification of KasA as the cellular target of an anti-tubercular scaffold

Katherine A. Abrahams; Chun-Wa Chung; Sonja Ghidelli-Disse; Joaquín Rullas; María José Rebollo-López; Sudagar S. Gurcha; Jonathan A.G. Cox; Alfonso Mendoza; Elena Jiménez-Navarro; María Santos Martínez-Martínez; Margarete Neu; Anthony Shillings; Paul Homes; Argyrides Argyrou; Ruth Casanueva; Nicholas J. Loman; Patrick J. Moynihan; Joël Lelièvre; Carolyn Selenski; Matthew Axtman; Laurent Kremer; Marcus Bantscheff; Iñigo Angulo-Barturen; Mónica Cacho Izquierdo; Nicholas C. Cammack; Gerard Drewes; Lluis Ballell; David Barros; Gurdyal S. Besra; Robert H. Bates

doi:10.1038/ncomms12581

Identification of KasA as the cellular target of an anti-tubercular scaffold

Katherine A. Abrahams
, Chun-Wa Chung
, Sonja Ghidelli-Disse
, Joaquín Rullas
, María José Rebollo-López
, Sudagar S. Gurcha
, Jonathan A.G. Cox
, Alfonso Mendoza
, Elena Jiménez-Navarro
, María Santos Martínez-Martínez
, Margarete Neu
, Anthony Shillings
, Paul Homes
, Argyrides Argyrou
, Ruth Casanueva
, Nicholas J. Loman
, Patrick J. Moynihan
, Joël Lelièvre
, Carolyn Selenski
, Matthew Axtman

Laurent Kremer, Marcus Bantscheff, Iñigo Angulo-Barturen, Mónica Cacho Izquierdo, Nicholas C. Cammack, Gerard Drewes, Lluis Ballell, David Barros, Gurdyal S. Besra, Robert H. Bates

University College Birmingham
GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage
Cellzome GmbH
GlaxoSmithKline, Madrid
GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia
Université de Montpellier

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Phenotypic screens for bactericidal compounds are starting to yield promising hits against tuberculosis. In this regard, whole-genome sequencing of spontaneous resistant mutants generated against an indazole sulfonamide (GSK3011724A) identifies several specific single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the essential Mycobacterium tuberculosis β-ketoacyl synthase (kas) A gene. Here, this genomic-based target assignment is confirmed by biochemical assays, chemical proteomics and structural resolution of a KasA-GSK3011724A complex by X-ray crystallography. Finally, M. tuberculosis GSK3011724A-resistant mutants increase the in vitro minimum inhibitory concentration and the in vivo 99% effective dose in mice, establishing in vitro and in vivo target engagement. Surprisingly, the lack of target engagement of the related β-ketoacyl synthases (FabH and KasB) suggests a different mode of inhibition when compared with other Kas inhibitors of fatty acid biosynthesis in bacteria. These results clearly identify KasA as the biological target of GSK3011724A and validate this enzyme for further drug discovery efforts against tuberculosis.

Original language	English
Article number	12581
Number of pages	13
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12581
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2016

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Abrahams, K. A., Chung, C.-W., Ghidelli-Disse, S., Rullas, J., Rebollo-López, M. J., Gurcha, S. S., Cox, J. A. G., Mendoza, A., Jiménez-Navarro, E., Martínez-Martínez, M. S., Neu, M., Shillings, A., Homes, P., Argyrou, A., Casanueva, R., Loman, N. J., Moynihan, P. J., Lelièvre, J., Selenski, C., ... Bates, R. H. (2016). Identification of KasA as the cellular target of an anti-tubercular scaffold. Nature Communications, 7, Article 12581. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12581

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