Designed Azolopyridinium Salts Block Protective Antigen Pores In Vitro and Protect Cells from Anthrax Toxin

• Christoph Beitzinger ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Beitzinger, Anika Bronnhuber

  Affiliation Rudolf-Virchow-Center, DFG-Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Anika Bronnhuber ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christoph Beitzinger, Anika Bronnhuber

  Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

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• Kerstin Duscha,

  Affiliation Rudolf-Virchow-Center, DFG-Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

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• Zsuzsanna Riedl,

  Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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• Markus Huber-Lang,

  Affiliation Institute of Traumatology, Hand- and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

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• Roland Benz ,

  * E-mail: r.benz@jacobs-university.de (RB); holger.barth@uni-ulm.de (HB)

  Affiliations Rudolf-Virchow-Center, DFG-Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• György Hajós,

  Affiliation Institute of Organic Chemistry, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

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• Holger Barth

  * E-mail: r.benz@jacobs-university.de (RB); holger.barth@uni-ulm.de (HB)

  Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

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