• Design of galardine analogs as putative psudolysin inhibitors based on ab initio fragment molecular orbital calculations 

      Ezawa, Takuya; Sugiyama, Satoshi; Ara, Ayami; Sylte, Ingebrigt; Kurita, Noriyuki (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-08-29)
      Pseudolysin (PLN) is a metalloproteinase secreted from bacteria that degrades extracellular proteins to produce bacterial nutrition. It is thus expected that inhibitors against PLN can suppress the growth of bacteria and their pandemic spread. In addition, since these inhibitors do not attack to bacteria directly, there is a reduced risk for producing drug-resistant bacteria. On the other hand, as ...