Fragment-Based Discovery of a New Class of Inhibitors Targeting Mycobacterial Trna Modification
Supplementary Data Fragment-based discovery of a new class of inhibitors targeting mycobacterial tRNA modification Sherine E. Thomas*1, Andrew J. Whitehouse*2, Karen Brown3,4, Juan M. Belardinelli5, Ramanuj Lahiri6, M. Daben J. Libardo7, Pooja Gupta1, Sony Malhotra8, Helena I. M. Boshoff7, Mary Jackson5, Chris Abell 2, Anthony G. Coyne2, Tom L. Blundell §1, R. Andres Floto3,4, Vitor Mendes §1 1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK. 2 Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, UK. 3 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, U.K. 4 Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, CB23 3RE, U.K. 5 Mycobacteria Research Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. 6 National Hansen’s Disease Program, Healthcare Systems Bureau, HRSA, DHHS, USA 7 Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. 8 Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, WC1E7HX, UK * Contributed equally § To whom correspondence should be addressed Results Conservation of catalytic residues in mycobacterial TrmD A multiple sequence alignment of 5 mycobacterial TrmD enzyme sequences with 10 TrmD ortholog amino acid sequences (Figure S1) shows conservation of important catalytic residues and residues involved in tRNA recognition and methyl transfer reactions. The catalytic residues Asp169 and Arg154 are highly conserved across TrmD orthologs. Key residues such as Asp50, Gly59, His46 involved in tRNA G36 and G37 base recognition, interactions with bases at positions 38, 32 and anticodon branch of wild type tRNA respectively, are also broadly conserved.
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