bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/198176; this version posted October 4, 2017. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Identification of a Small Molecule Inhibitor of the Aminoglycoside 6'-N- 2 Acetyltransferase Type Ib [AAC(6')-Ib] Using Mixture-Based Combinatorial 3 Libraries 4 5 Tung Tran,1* Kevin Chiem,1* Saumya Jani,1 Brock A. Arivett, 2,3 David Lin,1 Rupali 6 Lad,1 Verónica Jimenez,1 Mary B. Farone, 2 Ginamarie Debevec,4 Radleigh 7 Santos,4 Marc Giulianotti,4 Clemencia Pinilla,5 and Marcelo E. Tolmasky1# 8 9 1Center for Applied Biotechnology Studies, Department of Biological Science, 10 College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University 11 Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, Departments of 2Biology and 3Chemistry, Middle 12 Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 4Torrey Pines Institute for 13 Molecular Studies, Port St. Lucie, FL, and 5Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular 14 Studies, San Diego, CA. 15 16 Word count: 3,879 17 Running Head: Inhibition of AAC(6’)-Ib 18 19 Corresponding Author: Marcelo E. Tolmasky, Professor 20 Mailing address: Department of Biological Science, CNSM, CSUF, PO Box 6850, 21 Fullerton, CA 92831-6850, US. Email:
[email protected] 22 23 Co-corresponding Author: Clemencia Pinilla 24 Mailing address: 3550 General Atomics Court, 2-129, San Diego CA 92121-1122, US. 25 Email:
[email protected], for or questions related to combinatorial libraries 26 27 *Tung Tran and Kevin Chiem contributed equally to this article 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/198176; this version posted October 4, 2017.