Enzymes that produce or recycle folates are the targets of widely used antimalarial drugs. Despite the interest in the folate metabolism of Plasmodium falciparum, the molecular identification of ADCL (aminodeoxychorismate lyase), which synthesizes the p-aminobenzoate moiety of folate, remained unresolved. In the present study, we demonstrate that the plasmodial gene PF14_0557 encodes a functional ADCL and report a characterization of the recombinant enzyme.
产生或回收叶酸的酶是广泛使用的抗疟药物的靶标。尽管人们对恶性疟原虫的叶酸代谢很感兴趣,但合成叶酸对氨基苯甲酸酯的 ADCL(氨基脱氧胆甾酸裂解酶)的分子鉴定仍然悬而未决。在本研究中,我们证明质粒基因 PF14_0557 编码功能性 ADCL,并报告了重组酶的特征。