Inhibition of Escherichia coliGlucosamine-6-phosphate Synthase by Reactive Intermediate Analogues
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Glucosamine-6-phosphate synthase (GlmS) catalyzes the formation of D-glucosamine 6-phosphate from D-fructose 6-phosphate using L-glutamine as the ammonia source. Because N-acetylglucosamine is an essential building block of both bacterial cell walls and fungal cell wall chitin, the enzyme is a potential target for antibacterial and antifungal agents. The most potent carbohydrate-based inhibitor of GlmS reported to date is 2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucitol 6-phosphate, an analogue of the putative cis-enolamine intermediate formed during catalysis. The interaction of a series of structurally related cis-enolamine intermediate analogues with GlmS is described. Although arabinose oxime 5-phosphate is identified as a good competitive inhibitor of GlmS with an inhibition constant equal to 1. 2 (+/-0.3) mM, the presence of the amino function at the 2-position is shown to be important for potent inhibition. Comparison of the binding affinities of 2-deoxy-D-glucitol 6-phosphate and 2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucitol 6-phosphate indicates that the amino function contributes -4.1 (+/-0.1) kcal/mol to the free energy of inhibitor binding. Similarly, comparison of the binding affinities of 2-deoxy-D-glucose 6-phosphate and D-glucosamine 6-phosphate indicates that the amino function contributes -3.0 (+/-0.1) kcal/mol to the free energy of product binding. Interactions between GlmS and the 2-amino function of its ligands contribute to the uniform binding of the product and the cis-enolamine intermediate as evidenced by the similar contribution of the amino group to the free energy of binding of D-glucosamine 6-phosphate and 2-amino-2-deoxy-D-glucitol 6-phosphate, respectively.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".