Title of article :
Molecular modeling of wild-type and antifolate resistant mutant Plasmodium falciparum DHFR Original Research Article
Author/Authors :
Reinaldo Teixeira Delfino، نويسنده , , Osvaldo Andrade Santos-Filho، نويسنده , , Jose Daniel Figueroa-Villar، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2002
Pages :
14
From page :
287
To page :
300
Abstract :
The development of drug resistance is reducing the efficiency of antifolates as antimalarials. This phenomenon has been linked to the occurrence of mutations in the parasiteʹs dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR). In this way, the resistance to pyrimethamine and cycloguanil, two potent inhibitors of P. falciparum DHFR, is mainly related to mutations (single and crossed) at residues 16, 51, 59, 108 and 164 of the enzyme. In this work, we have refined a recently proposed homology-model of P. falciparum DHFR, and the resulting structure was used to obtain models for 14 mutant enzymes, employing molecular modeling. Ternary complexes of the mutant enzymes with these inhibitors have been superimposed to equivalent ternary complexes of the wild-type enzyme, allowing the proposition of hypotheses for the role of each mutation in drug resistance. Based on these results, possible reasons for antifolate resistance have been proposed.
Keywords :
malaria , Plasmodium falciparum , dihydrofolate reductase , Docking , homology modeling , Antifolate resistance
Journal title :
Biophysical Chemistry
Serial Year :
2002
Journal title :
Biophysical Chemistry
Record number :
1113122
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