At very small doses this compound inhibits the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Bacterial resistance to drugs leads pharmaceutical labs to be in constant search for new antibiotics to treat the same diseases. For the last thirty years, the sea bottom has yielded a wealth of substances with properties of interest to the pharmaceutical industry. Isolated from a marine microorganism off the coast of Alicante by the company BioMar, baringolin shows promising antibiotic activity at a very low concentration. The Combinatorial Lab headed by Fernando Albericio at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), which collaborates with BioMar, has now synthesized this molecule and revealed its structure. Today’s results open up the possibility to better understand how this substance works and to design derivatives to turn into a viable drug in the next 10 years. These findings are advanced in todays’ online edition of Angewandte Chemie, the scientific journal of reference in chemistry.
The researcher Xavier Just-Baringo, who is doing his PhD in the Combinatorial Chemistry Lab, has spent the last four years studying the structural composition of baringolin and has reconstructed this molecule in the lab as if it were 3D a puzzle of atoms that can be joined up in many ways. “This substance has 128 possible structural configurations but only one is an exact replica of the natural peptide. We have been able to find it via 39 synthesis steps,” explains Just-Baringo who has had the privilege to name the new compound.
The researchers have finely tuned the organic synthesis of the natural peptide and several analogues and will address the biological activity of these molecules and attempt to improve their pharmacological and pharmacokinetic properties. Through collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, they will test the analogues against several strains of gram-positive bacteria, one of the two large groups into which bacteria are classified and against which baringolin has shown inhibitory activity.
Thiopeptides: a new family of antibiotics
Structurally speaking, baringolin is a thiopeptide. These molecules are a new family of antibacterial agents of terrestrial and marine origin, and about 100 have been identified to date. “There is only one thiopeptide on the market for the treatment of bacterial infections, thiostrepton (Panolog), and it is used in veterinary medicine for skin infections. Nothing is available for humans yet,” explanis Mercedes Álvarez, associate researcher in the lab, senior professor at the University of Barcelona (UB), and supervisor of the study. The main drawback of thiopeptides is that they show low solubility. For baringolin to be viable as a drug, its solubility must be improved because antibiotics are administered orally or intravenously. “Using the analogues, we aim to improve this feature and identify the parts of the molecule responsible for their antibiotic activity in order to be able to design new more active and smaller analogues,” says Álvarez.
“We have taken the first step towards achieving a future drug,” says Albericio.
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