Dual Dehydrosqualene/Squalene Synthase Inhibitors: Leads for Innate Immune System‐Based Therapeutics

Abstract

Double whammy! Small molecules that inhibit Staphylococcus aureus dehydrosqualene synthase (CrtM) or host squalene synthase (SQS) are of interest as novel, innate immunity-based therapeutics, blocking virulence or stimulating antibacterial neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) formation. The discovery of leads that do both represents a new route to treating staph infections. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.