Toward More Selective Antibiotic Inhibitors: A Structural View of the Complexed Binding Pocket of Peptide Deformylase.

Peptide deformylase (PDF) is involved in bacterial protein maturation processes. Originating from the interest in a new antibiotic, tremendous effort was put into the refinement of PDF inhibitors (PDFIs) and their selectivity. We obtained a full NMR backbone assignment the emergent additional protein backbone resonances of ecPDF 1-147 in complex with 2-(5-bromo-1-indol-3-yl)--hydroxyacetamide (), a potential new structural scaffold for more selective PDFIs.