Abstract:
:Pyrimidine biosynthesis presents an attractive drug target in malaria parasites due to the absence of a pyrimidine salvage pathway. A set of compounds designed to inhibit the Plasmodium falciparum pyrimidine biosynthetic enzyme dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (PfDHODH) was synthesized. PfDHODH-specific inhibitors with low nanomolar binding affinities were identified that bind in the N-terminal hydrophobic channel of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, the presumed site of ubiquinone binding during oxidation of dihydroorotate to orotate. These compounds also prevented growth of cultured parasites at low micromolar concentrations. Models that suggest the mode of inhibitor binding is based on shape complementarity, matching hydrophobic regions of inhibitor and enzyme, and interaction of inhibitors with amino acid residues F188, H185, and R265 are supported by mutagenesis data. These results further highlight PfDHODH as a promising new target for chemotherapeutic intervention in prevention of malaria and provide better understanding of the factors that determine specificity over human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase.
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J Med Chemjournal_title
Journal of medicinal chemistryauthors
Heikkilä T,Ramsey C,Davies M,Galtier C,Stead AM,Johnson AP,Fishwick CW,Boa AN,McConkey GAdoi
10.1021/jm060687jsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-01-25 00:00:00pages
186-91issue
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0022-2623issn
1520-4804journal_volume
50pub_type
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