Drug Design

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Relevant Publications

  • A fragment-based approach identifies an allosteric pocket that impacts malate dehydrogenase activity (Commun Biology 2021)

  • Lactate dehydrogenase and malate dehydrogenase: Potential antiparasitic targets for drug development studies (Bioorg Med Chem 2021)

  • A Novel Malate Dehydrogenase 2 Inhibitor Suppresses Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 by Regulating Mitochondrial Respiration (PLoS One 2016)

  • W1497, an Inhibitor of Malate Dehydrogenase, Suppresses TGF-β1-Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Lung Cancer Cells by Downregulating Slug (Antioxidants (Basel) 2021)

  • Oligomeric interfaces as a tool in drug discovery: Specific interference with activity of malate dehydrogenase of Plasmodium falciparum in vitro (PLoS One 2018)

  • Synthesis and structure-activity relationship study of chemical probes as hypoxia induced factor-1α/malate dehydrogenase 2 inhibitors (J Med Chem 2014)

List of Skills/ Techniques Needed: Computational docking of potential drug with MDH, molecular techniques, expression and purification, circular dichroism, fast thermal melt, enzyme assays.

A list of adopters:: Ellis Bell, Jessica Bell, David Hecht, (email josephprovost@sandiego.edu to add your name!)

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