Molecular models of protein targets from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Structural characterization of enzymes that belong to microbial metabolic pathways is very important for structure-based drug design since some of these proteins may be present in the bacterial genome, but absent in humans. Thus, metabolic pathways became potential targets for drug design. The motivation of this work is the fact that Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the cause of the deaths of millions of people in the world, so that the structural characterization of protein targets to propose new drugs has become essential. DBMODELING is a relational database, created to highlight the importance of methods of molecular modeling applied to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome with the aim of proposing protein-ligand docking analysis. There are currently more than 300 models for proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome in the database. The database contains a detailed description of the reaction catalyzed by each enzyme and their atomic coordinates. Information about structures, a tool for animated gif image, a table with a specification of the metabolic pathway, modeled protein, inputs used in modeling, and analysis methods used in this project are available in the database for download. The search tool can be used for researchers to find specific pathways or enzymes.
Silveira
Nelson José Freitas da
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Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biofísica Molecular Departamento de Física, UNESP, São José do Rio Preto, SP, 15054-000, Brasil.
Uchôa
Hugo Brandão
HB
Pereira
José Henrique
JH
Canduri
Fernanda
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Basso
Luiz Augusto
LA
Palma
Mário Sérgio
MS
Santos
Diógenes Santiago
DS
de Azevedo
Walter Filgueira
WF
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D030562:Databases, Protein; D015195:Drug Design; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor); C022642:shikimate kinase