Abstract
An important cause of bacterial resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics is the enzymatic acetylation of their amino groups by acetyltransferases, which abolishes their binding to and inhibition of the bacterial ribosome. Enhanced intracellular survival (Eis) protein from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt) is one of such acetyltransferases, whose upregulation was recently established as a cause of resistance to aminoglycosides in clinical cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The mechanism of aminoglycoside acetylation by MtEis is not completely understood. A systematic analysis of steady-state kinetics of acetylation of kanamycin A and neomycin B by Eis as a function of concentrations of these aminoglycosides and the acetyl donor, acetyl coenzyme A, reveals that MtEis employs a random-sequential bisubstrate mechanism of acetylation and yields the values of the kinetic parameters of this mechanism. The implications of these mechanistic properties for the design of inhibitors of Eis and other aminoglycoside acetyltransferases are discussed.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-3-2014
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092370
Repository Citation
Tsodikov, Oleg V.; Green, Keith D.; and Garneau-Tsodikova, Sylvie, "A Random Sequential Mechanism of Aminoglycoside Acetylation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Eis Protein" (2014). Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty Publications. 18.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ps_facpub/18
Notes/Citation Information
Published in PLoS ONE, v. 9, issue 4, no. e92370.
© 2014 Tsodikov et al.
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