Mechanisms of action of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine: implications for rheumatology

E Schrezenmeier, T Dörner - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2020 - nature.com
Despite widespread clinical use of antimalarial drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and
chloroquine in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus …

21st century natural product research and drug development and traditional medicines

LT Ngo, JI Okogun, WR Folk - Natural product reports, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1987 to 2013 Natural products and related structures are essential sources of new
pharmaceuticals, because of the immense variety of functionally relevant secondary …

[PDF][PDF] Towards automated crystallographic structure refinement with phenix. refine

PV Afonine, RW Grosse-Kunstleve… - … Section D: Biological …, 2012 - journals.iucr.org
phenix. refine is a program within the PHENIX package that supports crystallographic
structure refinement against experimental data with a wide range of upper resolution limits …

Structure-based insights into the catalytic power and conformational dexterity of peroxiredoxins

A Hall, K Nelson, LB Poole… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2011 - liebertpub.com
Peroxiredoxins (Prxs), some of nature's dominant peroxidases, use a conserved Cys residue
to reduce peroxides. They are highly expressed in organisms from all kingdoms, and in …

The implications of zinc therapy in combating the COVID-19 global pandemic

N Samad, TE Sodunke, AR Abubakar… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The global pandemic from COVID-19 infection has generated significant public health
concerns, both health-wise and economically. There is no specific pharmacological antiviral …

Factors affecting protein thiol reactivity and specificity in peroxide reduction

G Ferrer-Sueta, B Manta, H Botti, R Radi… - Chemical research in …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Protein thiol reactivity generally involves the nucleophilic attack of the thiolate on an
electrophile. A low p K a means higher availability of the thiolate at neutral pH but often a …

Structural biology of the purine biosynthetic pathway

Y Zhang, M Morar, SE Ealick - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2008 - Springer
Purine biosynthesis requires ten enzymatic transformations to generate inosine
monophosphate. PurF, PurD, PurL, PurM, PurC, and PurB are common to all pathways …

Profiling humoral immune responses to P. falciparum infection with protein microarrays

DL Doolan, Y Mu, B Unal, S Sundaresh, S Hirst… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
A complete description of the serological response following exposure of humans to
complex pathogens is lacking and approaches suitable for accomplishing this are limited …

Structures of apicomplexan calcium-dependent protein kinases reveal mechanism of activation by calcium

AK Wernimont, JD Artz, P Finerty Jr, YH Lin… - Nature structural & …, 2010 - nature.com
Calcium-dependent protein kinases (CDPKs) have pivotal roles in the calcium-signaling
pathway in plants, ciliates and apicomplexan parasites and comprise a calmodulin …

[HTML][HTML] ClpP: a distinctive family of cylindrical energy-dependent serine proteases

AYH Yu, WA Houry - FEBS letters, 2007 - Elsevier
Processes maintaining protein homeostasis in the cell are governed by the activities of
molecular chaperones that mainly assist in the folding of polypeptide chains and by a large …