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mSystems ; 8(6): e0083523, 2023 Dec 21.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37855615

ABSTRACT

IMPORTANCE: Lyme disease is often treated using long courses of antibiotics, which can cause side effects for patients and risks the evolution of antimicrobial resistance. Narrow-spectrum antimicrobials would reduce these risks, but their development has been slow because the Lyme disease bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, is difficult to work with in the laboratory. To accelerate the drug discovery pipeline, we developed a computational model of B. burgdorferi's metabolism and used it to predict essential enzymatic reactions whose inhibition prevented growth in silico. These predictions were validated using small-molecule enzyme inhibitors, several of which were shown to have specific activity against B. burgdorferi. Although the specific compounds used are not suitable for clinical use, we aim to use them as lead compounds to develop optimized drugs targeting the pathways discovered here.


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Borrelia burgdorferi , Lyme Disease , Humans , Lyme Disease/drug therapy , Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology , Drug Discovery
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