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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Computational Development of Inhibitors of Plasmid-Borne Bacterial Dihydrofolate Reductase.

Pedro J Silva

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract read
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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 53% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Pedro J SilvaFP-I3ID, FP-BHS, Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Fernando Pessoa, 4200-150 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-9316-9275
Fernando Pessoa University · PT

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia PTDC/QUI-QUI/111288/2009Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia UIDB/04378/2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Resistance to trimethoprim and other antibiotics targeting dihydrofolate reductase may arise in bacteria harboring an atypical, plasmid-encoded, homotetrameric dihydrofolate reductase, called R67 DHFR. Although developing inhibitors to this enzyme may be expected to be promising drugs to fight trimethoprim-resistant strains, there is a paucity of reports describing the development of such molecules. In this manuscript, we describe the design of promising lead compounds to target R67 DHFR. Density-functional calculations were first used to identify the modifications of the pterin core that yielded derivatives likely to bind the enzyme and not susceptible to being acted upon by it. These unreactive molecules were then docked to the active site, and the stability of the docking poses of the best candidates was analyzed through triplicate molecular dynamics simulations, and compared to the binding stability of the enzyme-substrate complex. Molecule

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computer-aided molecular designdensity-functional theorydrug developmentmolecular dockingmolecular dynamics

Identifiers

PMID35740185
PMCPMC9220120
OpenAlexW4283449066

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