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ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications2017

Identification of eukaryotic UDP-galactopyranose mutase inhibitors using the ThermoFAD assay.

Julia S Martín Del Campo, Meital Eckshtain-Levi, Pablo Sobrado

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Article in Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Julia S Martín Del CampoDepartment of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Meital Eckshtain-LeviDepartment of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Pablo SobradoDepartment of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA; Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. Electronic address: psobrado@vt.edu.
Virginia Tech · US

Funding

Mechanistic and structural studies of eukaryotic UDP-galactopyranose mutasesR01GM094469 · NIGMS · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI SOBRADO, PABLO, TANNER, JOHN J · 2010 to 2019
$2.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM094469
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aspergillus fumigatus is a human pathogen responsible for deadly infections in immune-compromised patients. A potential strategy for treating A. fumigatus infections is by targeting the biosynthesis of cell wall components, such as galactofuranase, which is absent in humans. Galactofuranose biosynthesis is initiated by the flavoenzyme UDP-galactopyranose mutase (UGM), which converts UDP-galactopyranose (UDP-Galp) to UDP-galactofuranose (UDP-Galf). UGM requires the reduced form of the flavin for activity, which is obtained by reacting with NADPH. We aimed to identify inhibitors of UGM by screening a kinase inhibitor library using ThermoFAD, a flavin fluorescence thermal shift assay. The screening assay identified flavopiridol as a compound that increased the melting temperature of A. fumigatus UGM. Further characterization showed that flavopiridol is a non-competitive inhibitor of UGM and docking studies suggest that it binds in the active site. This compound does not inhibit the prokaryotic UGM from Mycobacteria tuberculosis.

Indexed as

Aspergillus fumigatusDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalEnzyme ActivationEnzyme InhibitorsFlavinsFlavonoidsIntramolecular TransferasesPiperidinesProtein Interaction MappingSpectrometry, FluorescenceTemperaturealvocidibEnzyme InhibitorsFlavinsFlavonoidsIntramolecular TransferasesPiperidinesUDP-galactopyranose mutaseAspergillus fumigatusFlavopiridolGalactofuranThermoFADUDP-Galactopyranose mutaseUGM inhibition

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PMID28919416
PMCPMC6491354
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