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Pyrazinamide triggers degradation of its target aspartate decarboxylase
oleh: Pooja Gopal, Jickky Palmae Sarathy, Michelle Yee, Priya Ragunathan, Joon Shin, Shashi Bhushan, Junhao Zhu, Tatos Akopian, Olga Kandror, Teck Kwang Lim, Martin Gengenbacher, Qingsong Lin, Eric J. Rubin, Gerhard GrĂ¼ber, Thomas Dick
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Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2020-04-01 |
Deskripsi
It has been shown that the bioactive component of pyrazinamide, pyrazinoic acid (POA), blocks coenzyme A biosynthesis in M. tuberculosis by binding to the aspartate decarboxylase PanD. Here the authors show that pyrazinamide triggers degradation of PanD by stimulating its degradation by the caseinolytic protease Clp.