The Natural Product Elegaphenone Potentiates Antibiotic Effects against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

ABSTRACT: Natural products represent a rich source of antibiotics that address versatile cellular targets. The deconvolution of their targets via chemical proteomics is often challenged by the introduction of large photocrosslinkers. Here we applied elegaphenone, a largely uncharacterized natural product antibiotic bearing a native benzophenone core scaffold, for affinity-based protein profiling (AfBPP) in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. This study utilizes the alkynylated natural product scaffold as a probe to uncover intriguing biological interactions with the transcriptional regulator AlgP. Furthermore, proteome profiling of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa AlgP transposon mutant provided unique insights into the mode of action. Elegaphenone enhanced the elimination of intracellular P. aerugino

SUBMITTER: Zhao W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6555641 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature