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  2. Discovery of ANT3310, a Novel Broad-Spectrum Serine β-Lactamase Inhibitor of the Diazabicyclooctane Class, Which Strongly Potentiates Meropenem Activity against Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales and Acinetobacter baumannii

Discovery of ANT3310, a Novel Broad-Spectrum Serine β-Lactamase Inhibitor of the Diazabicyclooctane Class, Which Strongly Potentiates Meropenem Activity against Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales and Acinetobacter baumannii

  • J Med Chem. 2020 Dec 24;63(24):15802-15820. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c01535.
David T Davies 1 Simon Leiris 1 Magdalena Zalacain 1 Nicolas Sprynski 1 Jérôme Castandet 1 Justine Bousquet 1 Clarisse Lozano 1 Agustina Llanos 1 Laethitia Alibaud 1 Srinivas Vasa 2 Ramesh Pattipati 2 Ravindar Valige 2 Bhaskar Kummari 2 Srinivasu Pothukanuri 2 Cyntia De Piano 3 Ian Morrissey 3 Kirsty Holden 4 Peter Warn 4 Francesca Marcoccia 5 Manuela Benvenuti 6 Cecilia Pozzi 6 Giusy Tassone 6 Stefano Mangani 6 Jean-Denis Docquier 5 David Pallin 7 Richard Elliot 7 Marc Lemonnier 1 Martin Everett 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Antabio SAS, 436 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 31670 Labège, France.
  • 2 GVK Biosciences Pvt. Ltd., Survey No. 125 and 126, IDA, Mallapur, Hyderabad, Telangana 500 076, India.
  • 3 International Health Management Associates (IHMA), Rte. De I'Ile-au-Bois 1A, 1870 Monthey, Switzerland.
  • 4 Evotec (UK) Ltd., Block 23, Alderley Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 4TG, U.K.
  • 5 Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche, University of Siena, Viale Bracci 16, Siena 53100, Italy.
  • 6 Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, University of Siena, Via Aldo Moro 2, Siena 53100, Italy.
  • 7 Charles River Laboratories, 8-9 The Spire Green Centre, Harlow, Essex CM19 5TR, U.K.
Abstract

The diazabicyclooctanes (DBOs) are a class of serine β-lactamase (SBL) inhibitors that use a strained urea moiety as the warhead to react with the active serine residue in the active site of SBLs. The first in-class drug, avibactam, as well as several Other recently approved DBOs (e.g., relebactam) or those in clinical development (e.g., nacubactam and zidebactam) potentiate activity of β-lactam Antibiotics, to various extents, against carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) carrying class A, C, and D SBLs; however, none of these are able to rescue the activity of β-lactam Antibiotics against carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), a WHO "critical priority pathogen" producing class D OXA-type SBLs. Herein, we describe the chemical optimization and resulting structure-activity relationship, leading to the discovery of a novel DBO, ANT3310, which uniquely has a fluorine atom replacing the carboxamide and stands apart from the current DBOs in restoring carbapenem activity against OXA-CRAB as well as SBL-carrying CRE pathogens.

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