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BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 25, Issue 7, Pages 1385-1389Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2015.02.046
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Carbonic anhydrase; eta-Class; alpha-Class; Homology modeling; Zinc coordination; Plasmodium falciparum
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In this Letter we reinvestigate the sequence analysis and report a homology model of the carbonic anhydrase (CA, EC 4.2.1.1) from the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum, recently reported by us to belong to a new genetic family, the eta-CA class. Our findings show that the metal ion coordination pattern of this CA is unique among all five other genetic families encoding for such enzymes, comprising two His and one Gln residues, in addition to the water molecule/hydroxide ion acting as nucleophile in the catalytic cycle. Although the eta- and alpha-CAs present the same 3D fold, strongly suggesting the first ones to be evolutionary derived from the last, there are significant differences between the two families to allow optimism for the drug design of selective inhibitors for the parasite over the host enzymes. The preliminary studies reported here are relevant for drug design campaigns of anti-plasmodium CA inhibitors but further work by X-ray crystallography should validate the proposed model. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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