Infectious diseases cause millions of deaths each year. The top single disease killers include tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases. The diarrheal diseases caused by cholera toxin and E. coli heat-labile enterotoxin constitute a large part of the diarrhea-related deaths worldwide each year. While there are some efficacious drugs against Vibrio cholerae in the market, their resistance is developing quickly. We wish to develop synthetic molecules that could bind to CT with a high affinity to block the enzymatic reaction catalyzed by CT. We designed, synthesized and evaluated bisubstrate analogs...
Infectious diseases cause millions of deaths each year. The top single disease killers include tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases. The diarrheal dise...