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Blocking Bacterial Naphthohydroquinone Oxidation and ADP-Ribosylation Improves Activity of Rifamycins against Mycobacterium abscessus
6 Jul 2021
Abstract excerpt
like rifampicin, preventing it from achieving the nanomolar activity that it displays against M. tuberculosis. Based on the identified dual mechanism of intrinsic rifamycin resistance, we hypothesized that rifamycins more potent than rifabutin should contain the molecule's naphthoquinone core plus a modification that blocks ADP-ribosylation at its C-23. To test these predictions, we performed a blinded screen of...
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