fosfomycin   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 10813

Synonyms: Monurol® | phosphomycin | phosphonomycin | Veramina®
Approved drug PDB Ligand
fosfomycin is an approved drug (UK (1994), FDA (1996))
Compound class: Synthetic organic
Comment: Fosfomycin is a phosphonic acid antibacterial, with broad antibacterial activity against Gram +ve and Gram -ve pathogens [1]. It was originally isolated from certain types of Streptomyces, but it is now made synthetically.
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2D Structure
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Physico-chemical Properties
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Hydrogen bond acceptors 4
Hydrogen bond donors 2
Rotatable bonds 1
Topological polar surface area 79.87
Molecular weight 138.01
XLogP -1.58
No. Lipinski's rules broken 0
SMILES / InChI / InChIKey
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Canonical SMILES C[C@@H]1O[C@@H]1P(=O)(O)O
Isomeric SMILES C[C@@H]1O[C@@H]1P(=O)(O)O
InChI InChI=1S/C3H7O4P/c1-2-3(7-2)8(4,5)6/h2-3H,1H3,(H2,4,5,6)/t2-,3+/m0/s1
InChI Key YMDXZJFXQJVXBF-STHAYSLISA-N
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Summary of Clinical Use Click here for help
Fosfomycin can be used to treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs e.g. cystitis) and prostatitis due to susceptible strains of Escherichia coli and Enterococcus faecalis for which it is generally given as a single oral dose as fosfomycin tromethamine. The drug can be administered as intravenous infusion (as the disodium salt), but this parenteral formulation is not available in the US. Fosfomycin is unsuitable for sustained therapy of severe infections as bacterial resistance can develop during therapy. Despite this i.v. fosfomycin (ZTI-01) is being evaluated in clinical studies for treatment of complicated UTIs [2] (NCT02753946). Under EMA jurisdiction, fosfomycin was granted orphan designation (in 2015) in a fixed-dose combination of fosfomycin disodium and tobramycin for the treatment of cystic fibrosis patients.
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Fosfomycin inhibits bacterial cell wall biogenesis by inactivating the peptidoglycan biosynthetic enzyme UDP-N-acetylglucosamine-3-enolpyruvyltransferase, (MurA).
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