Development of novel antibiotics that inhibit glutamate racemase as transition state analogues

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Emerging and increasing of multidrug resistant bacteria has become an even more serious issue. In this regard, I pointed the aim at glutamate racemase inhibition, which is an essential enzyme for bacteria, as a novel drug target. As human do not have this enzyme, one can expect that inhibitors of this enzyme do not have side effects. I designed and synthesized substrate analogues as potential inhibitors based on their action mechanism. Actually, one compound showed some antimicrobial activity on S. pneumoniae.