Computational docking of FtsZ: Survey of promising antibiotic compounds.

ABSTRACT: The bacterial cell-division protein FtsZ has been a promising antibiotic target for over a decade now, but there is still a need for more work in this area. So far there are no FtsZ targeting drugs commercially available. We have analyzed a wide variety of prospective drugs and their interactions with multiple FtsZ species using both free and directed docking simulations. Our goal is to present a standardized computational screening method for potential drug compounds targeting FtsZ. Our work is an example of a way to compare many proposed drugs and FtsZ species combinations relatively quickly. A common method for comparison can yield new results that individual studies and varying methods might not show, as we demonstrate here. To our knowledge this is one of the first, if not the first,

SUBMITTER: Espino IN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11647940 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature