The basic mechanism of pyrimethamine against malaria is to target on folic acid which produces tetrahydrofolates by inhibiting the enzyme
dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) (Yuvaniyama et al.
Key determinants in the occurrence of clonal variation in humanized antibody expression of cho cells during
dihydrofolate reductase mediated gene amplification.
Dihydrofolate reductase enzyme inhibition assay for plasma methotrexate determination using a 96-well microplate reader.
Structure of Plasmodium vivax
dihydrofolate reductase determined by homology modeling and molecular dynamics refinement.
chloroquine and quinine); (ii) antifolates, which are
dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) (e.
The reduction of dihydrofolate to THF is mediated by a bifunctional
dihydrofolate reductase that also has thymidylate synthase activity.
Splicing together
dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) enzymes from Bacillus subtilis (B.
The design, implementation and broad applications of this strategy are illustrated with a large number of enzymes with particular detail provided for the example of murine
dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR).
One group of such agents is
dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors, which block the conversion of folate to its more active metabolites.
19] These targets include genes that code for
dihydrofolate reductase, thymidine kinase, DNA polymerase-[Beta], thymidylate synthetase, B-Myb, cdc2, cyclin A, cyclin E, and c-Myc; they also include the E2F proteins themselves.
This vector contains a human [beta]-globin gene whose expression is controlled by elements of the globin hypersensitive region, and a mutant form of
dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) for use as a selectable marker.
More important, the easily understandable rules provided insights directly comparable to the relevant literature concerning the known shape of pockets in the binding site of
dihydrofolate reductase; inhibition of
dihydrofolate reductase is the mechanism used by the antifolate drugs methotrexate and trimethoprin for treating a range of diseases, including many cancers, infections, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and lupus.
