Phosphonopeptides as antibacterial agents: mechanism of action of alaphosphin.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
F R AthertonP S Ringrose

Abstract

The novel antibacterial peptide mimetic alaphosphin (l-alanyl-l-1-aminoethylphosphonic acid) selectively inhibited peptidoglycan biosynthesis in both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. It induced accumulation of uridine diphosphate-N-acetyl-muramyl-tripeptide in gram-positive organisms and significantly reduced the intracellular pool levels of d-alanine. Alaphosphin was actively transported into bacterial cells by stereospecific peptide permeases and was subsequently hydrolyzed by intracellular aminopeptidases to yield l-1-aminoethylphosphonic acid. This alanine mimetic rapidly accumulated inside susceptible cells to yield a concentration which was 100- to 1,000-fold in excess of that of the precursor peptide in the surrounding medium. In the case of susceptible gram-negative organisms, it was shown that 1-aminoethylphosphonic acid was incorporated into a metabolite which was tentatively identified as uridine diphosphate-N-acetylmuramyl-aminoethylphosphonate. The primary intracellular target site of 1-aminoethylphosphonic acid was alanine racemase (EC 5.1.1.1), which was reversibly and competitively inhibited in the gram-negative organisms Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and irreversibly inhibited in a time-d...Continue Reading

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