PMID: 16406782 , Related PDB id: 2B0M

Authors:

Hurt DE, Sutton AE, Clardy J

Title:

Brequinar derivatives and species-specific drug design for dihydroorotate dehydrogenase.

Journal:

Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2006 Mar 15;16(6):1610-5. Epub 2006 Jan 10.

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. 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.