Antibiotic therapy disrupts the human intestinal microbiota. In some patients rapid overgrowth of the enteric bacterium Klebsiella oxytoca results in antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis (AAHC). We isolated and identified a toxin produced by K. oxytoca as the pyrrolobenzodiazepine tilivalline and demonstrated its causative action in the pathogenesis of colitis in an animal model. Tilivalline induced apoptosis in cultured human cells in vitro and disrupted epithelial barrier function, consistent with the mucosal damage associated with colitis observed in human AAHC and the corresponding animal model. Our findings reveal the presence of pyrrolobenzodiazepines in the intestinal microbiota and provide a mechanism for colitis caused by a resident pathobiont. The data link pyrrolobenzodiazepines to human disease and identify tilivalline as a target for diagnosis and neutralizing strategies in prevention and treatment of colitis.bacteria | enteric microbiota | cytotoxin
Heterocyclic drugs can be cross-coupled with functionalized thiophene derivatives under dehydrogenative conditions using Pd-catalysts. Upon reductive desulfurization an alkyl linker is introduced with a functional group at its terminus, which will allow the immobilization of the drug molecule onto a solid support for chemical proteomics.
An Efficient Labeling Strategy of Drug Like Molecules with Functionalized Alkyl Linkers Using CH-Activation. -Heterocyclic drug compounds (I) and (V) are cross-coupled with thiophene derivatives (II) under dehydrogenative conditions using Pd-catalysis. Upon reductive desulfurization, an alkyl linker is introduced with a functional group at its termini, cf. (IVb) and (IVc), which will allow the immobilization of the drug molecule onto a solid support for chemical proteomics. -(RENTNER, J.; BREINBAUER*, R.; Chem. Commun. (Cambridge) 48 (2012) 83, 10343-10345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c2cc35758e ; Inst. Org. Chem., Graz Univ. Technol., A-8010 Graz, Austria; Eng.) -M. Paetzel
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