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. 2009 Aug 28;5(8):e1000489. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000489

Table 1. Summary of E-Flux predicted mycolic acid inhibitors from Boshoff data set.

Predicted Inhibitors
Isoniazid Specific Strong Known
Thiolactomycin Specific Strong Known
Ethionamide Specific Strong Known
ZnSO4 Non-specific Strong New
Ethambutol Specific Weak Known
Cerulenin Specific Weak Known
PA-21 Specific Weak New
Streptomycin Non-specific Weak New
Valinomycin Non-specific Weak New
Amikacin Non-specific Weak New
Pyrazinamide * Non-specific Weak Known
Tetracycline Non-specific Weak New
Dubos-NRP1; Dubos-NRP1+KNO3 Non-specific Weak* New
PA-824 Non-specific Very weak Known
Chlorpromazine Non-specific Very weak New
Capreomycin Non-specific Very weak New
Synthetic pyridoacridine analog (124196) Specific Very weak New
Ascedidemin (111895) Non-specific Very weak New
Rifapentine Non-specific Very weak New
Procept 6776, 6778 Non-specific Very weak New
Succinate, palmitate in minimal medium* Non-specific Very weak New
Starvation conditions Non-specific Very weak Expected

Results are shown for all significant predictions from the set of 437 experiments in Boshoff et al [17]. Of the seven known inhibitors of fatty acid biosynthesis, E-Flux correctly predicts 6. Strong effects are defined as effects showing greater than +/−3 log change between control and drug; weak inhibitory effects have inhibition less than −1.5 log change and very weak effects less than −1. Weak enhancing effects have greater than +1 log change. Specific effects indicate effects on mycolic acid biosynthesis as contrasted to effects over a broad range of pathways – see text for more details.

*

Prediction made only for certain replicates.

Prediction made only for certain doses.

Starvation conditions were phosphate- or Tris-buffered saline containing 0.05% Tween 80 (PBST or TBST) [17]. Conditions with both enhancing and inhibiting predictions among replicates were excluded.