Primary Citation of Related Structures:   2B0M
PubMed Abstract: 
Therapeutic agents brequinar sodium and leflunomide (Arava) work by binding in a hydrophobic tunnel formed by a highly variable N-terminus of family 2 dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH). The X-ray crystallographic structure of an analog of brequinar bound to human DHODH was determined ...
Therapeutic agents brequinar sodium and leflunomide (Arava) work by binding in a hydrophobic tunnel formed by a highly variable N-terminus of family 2 dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH). The X-ray crystallographic structure of an analog of brequinar bound to human DHODH was determined. In silico screening of a library of compounds suggested another subset of brequinar analogs that do not inhibit human DHODH as potentially effective inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum DHODH.
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Structure of Plasmodium falciparum dihyroorotate dehydrogenase with a bound inhibitor Hurt, D.E., Widom, J., Clardy, J. () To be published --: --
Organizational Affiliation: 
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.