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Inhibitors of riboflavin biosynthetic pathway enzymes as potential antibacterial drugs

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submitted on 2024-08-14, 05:50 and posted on 2024-08-14, 05:51 authored by Zeyaul Islam, Pankaj Kumar

Multiple drug resistance is the main obstacle in the treatment of bacterial diseases. Resistance against antibiotics demands the exploration of new antimicrobial drug targets. A variety of in silico and genetic approaches show that the enzymes of the riboflavin biosynthetic pathway are crucial for the survival of bacteria. This pathway is absent in humans thus enzymes of the riboflavin biosynthetic pathway are emerging drug targets for resistant pathogenic bacterial strains. Exploring the structural details, their mechanism of action, intermediate elucidation, and interaction analysis would help in designing suitable inhibitors of these enzymes. The riboflavin biosynthetic pathway consists of seven distinct enzymes, namely, 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase, GTP cyclohydrolase II, pyrimidine deaminase/reductase, phosphatase, lumazine synthase, and riboflavin synthase. The present review summarizes the research work that has been carried out on these enzymes in terms of their structures, active site architectures, and molecular mechanism of catalysis. This review also walks through small molecule inhibitors that have been developed against several of these enzymes.

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Published in: Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2023.1228763

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Language

  • English

Publisher

Frontiers

Publication Year

  • 2023

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Institution affiliated with

  • Hamad Bin Khalifa University
  • Qatar Biomedical Research Institute - HBKU