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SUBMITTER: Dahlgren MK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3509768 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dahlgren Markus K MK Baeza Garcia Alvaro A Hare Alissa A AA Tirado-Rives Julian J Leng Lin L Bucala Richard R Jorgensen William L WL
Journal of medicinal chemistry 20121026 22
The Plasmodium falciparum orthologue of the human cytokine, macrophage migratory inhibitory factor (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 has been performed by docking 2.1 million compounds into the enzymatic site. Assaying o ...[more]