Virtual Screening and Optimization Yield Low-Nanomolar Inhibitors of the Tautomerase Activity of <i>Plasmodium falciparum</i> Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor
作者:Markus K. Dahlgren、Alvaro Baeza Garcia、Alissa A. Hare、Julian Tirado-Rives、Lin Leng、Richard Bucala、William L. Jorgensen
DOI:10.1021/jm301269s
日期:2012.11.26
Plasmodium falciparum orthologue of the human cytokine, macrophage migratory inhibitoryfactor (PfMIF), is produced by the parasite during malaria infection and modulates the host’s immune response. As for other MIF orthologues, PfMIF has tautomerase activity, whose inhibition may influence the cytokine activity. To identify small-molecule inhibitors of the tautomerase activity of PfMIF, virtual screening