Modeled structure of trypanothione reductase of Leishmania infantum

BMB Rep. 2008 Jun 30;41(6):444-7. doi: 10.5483/bmbrep.2008.41.6.444.

Abstract

Trypanothione reductase is an important target enzyme for structure-based drug design against Leishmania. We used homology modeling to construct a three-dimensional structure of the trypanothione reductase (TR) of Leishmania infantum. The structure shows acceptable Ramachandran statistics and a remarkably different active site from glutathione reductase(GR). Thus, a specific inhibitor against TR can be designed without interfering with host (human) GR activity.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Leishmania infantum / enzymology*
  • Models, Molecular
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases / chemistry*
  • Protein Conformation
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

Substances

  • NADH, NADPH Oxidoreductases
  • trypanothione reductase