Thursday, January 15, 2015

DABCO beta-Lactamse Inhibitors



It looks like not only the old BLI tazobactam (approved in 1993) found new combinations,  such as ceftolozane-tazobactam from Cubist, the new DABCO combinations are also getting approvals or progressing into clinical trials. AZ, Merck,  and now Roche (Fedora) are all in the game, is this a renaissance of the long-lasting field? Personally, my medchem project started with BLI on the old tazo-type structure 20 years ago (BMCL, 1995, 5, 1513-18) and also recently I worked on DABCO series (WO2013150296). It's a truly unique class of enzymes to design inhibitors around. 

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