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SUBMITTER: Wang K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2874468 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Ke K Wang Weixue W No Joo-Hwan JH Zhang Yonghui Y Zhang Yong Y Oldfield Eric E
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100501 19
We report the inhibition of the Aquifex aeolicus IspH enzyme (LytB, (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl diphosphate reductase, EC 1.17.1.2) by a series of diphosphates and bisphosphonates. The most active species was an alkynyl diphosphate having IC(50) = 0.45 microM (K(i) approximately 60 nM), which generated a very large change in the 9 GHz EPR spectrum of the reduced protein. On the basis of previous work on organometallic complexes, together with computational docking and quantum chemical calc ...[more]