title: Orienting the heterocyclic periphery: a structural model for chloroquine's antimalarial activity.
abstract: The antimalarial drug chloroquine binds to gallium proto-porphyrin-IX in methanol and in the solid state and represents a unique drug-heme model.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. scott.bohle@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Erin L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Dodd
authors.forename: D Scott
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Bohle
mesh_terms: D000962:Antimalarials / Q000737:chemistry*; D002738:Chloroquine / Q000737:chemistry*; D005708:Gallium / Q000737:chemistry*; D006418:Heme / Q000737:chemistry*; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015394:Molecular Structure; D011524:Protoporphyrins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000962:Antimalarials; D011524:Protoporphyrins; D006418:Heme; D002738:Chloroquine; C028025:protoporphyrin IX; D005708:Gallium