| Structural highlights
8yhr is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
| | Method: | X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.7Å |
| Ligands: | , , , , , |
| Resources: | FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT |
Disease
PYRD_HUMAN Defects in DHODH are the cause of postaxial acrofacial dysostosis (POADS) [MIM:263750; also known as Miller syndrome. POADS is characterized by severe micrognathia, cleft lip and/or palate, hypoplasia or aplasia of the posterior elements of the limbs, coloboma of the eyelids and supernumerary nipples. POADS is a very rare disorder: only 2 multiplex families, each consisting of 2 affected siblings born to unaffected, nonconsanguineous parents, have been described among a total of around 30 reported cases.[1]
Function
PYRD_HUMAN Catalyzes the conversion of dihydroorotate to orotate with quinone as electron acceptor.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Natural products are important sources of seed compounds for drug discovery. However, it has become difficult in recent years to discover new compounds with valuable pharmacological activities. On the other hand, among the vast number of natural products that have been isolated so far, a considerable number of compounds with specific biological activities are thought to be overlooked in screening that uses biological activity as an index. Therefore, it is conceivable that such overlooked useful compounds may be found by screening compound libraries that have been amassed previously through specific assays. Previously, NPD723, a member of the Natural Products Depository library comprised of a mixture of natural and non-natural products developed at RIKEN, and its metabolite H-006 were found to inhibit growth of various cancer cells at low nanomolar half-maximal inhibitory concentration. Subsequent analysis revealed that H-006 strongly inhibited human dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), the rate-limiting enzyme in the de novo pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway. Here, we elucidated the crystal structure of the DHODH-flavin mononucleotide-orotic acid-H-006 complex at 1.7 A resolution to determine that furocoumavirin, the S-enantiomer of H-006, was the actual inhibitor. The overall mode of interaction of furocoumavirin with the inhibitor binding pocket was similar to that described for previously reported tight-binding inhibitors. However, the structural information together with kinetic characterizations of site-specific mutants identified key unique features that are considered to contribute to the sub-nanomolar inhibition of DHODH by furocoumavirin. Our finding identified new chemical features that could improve the design of human DHODH inhibitors.
Structural and Functional Analyses of Inhibition of Human Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase by Antiviral Furocoumavirin.,Nakahara M, Watanabe S, Sato M, Okumura H, Kawatani M, Osada H, Hara K, Hashimoto H, Watanabe K Biochemistry. 2024 May 21;63(10):1241-1245. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00120. , Epub 2024 May 9. PMID:38724483[2]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
References
- ↑ Ng SB, Buckingham KJ, Lee C, Bigham AW, Tabor HK, Dent KM, Huff CD, Shannon PT, Jabs EW, Nickerson DA, Shendure J, Bamshad MJ. Exome sequencing identifies the cause of a mendelian disorder. Nat Genet. 2010 Jan;42(1):30-5. doi: 10.1038/ng.499. Epub 2009 Nov 13. PMID:19915526 doi:10.1038/ng.499
- ↑ Nakahara M, Watanabe S, Sato M, Okumura H, Kawatani M, Osada H, Hara K, Hashimoto H, Watanabe K. Structural and Functional Analyses of Inhibition of Human Dihydroorotate Dehydrogenase by Antiviral Furocoumavirin. Biochemistry. 2024 May 21;63(10):1241-1245. PMID:38724483 doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.4c00120
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