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==Plasmepsin II complexed with a highly active achiral inhibitor==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[2bju]] is a 1 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmodium_falciparum Plasmodium falciparum]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=2BJU OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=2BJU FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 1.56&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=IH4:N-(R-CARBOXY-ETHYL)-ALPHA-(S)-(2-PHENYLETHYL)'>IH4</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=2bju FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=2bju OCA], [https://pdbe.org/2bju PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=2bju RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/2bju PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=2bju ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/PLM2_PLAFX PLM2_PLAFX] During the asexual blood stage, participates in initial cleavage of native host hemoglobin (Hb) resulting in Hb denaturation (PubMed:8844673, PubMed:11782538, PubMed:15574427). May cleave preferentially denatured hemoglobin that has been cleaved by PMI (PubMed:8844673). Digestion of host Hb is an essential step which provides the parasite with amino acids for protein synthesis, and regulates osmolarity (Probable).<ref>PMID:11782538</ref> <ref>PMID:15574427</ref> <ref>PMID:8844673</ref> 
== Evolutionary Conservation ==
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum degrades host cell hemoglobin inside an acidic food vacuole during the blood stage of the infectious cycle. A number of aspartic proteinases called plasmepsins (PMs) have been identified to play important roles in this degradation process and therefore generated significant interest as new antimalarial targets. Several x-ray structures of PMII have been described previously, but thus far, structure-guided drug design has been hampered by the fact that only inhibitors comprising a statine moiety or derivatives thereof have been published. Our drug discovery efforts to find innovative, cheap, and easily synthesized inhibitors against aspartic proteinases yielded some highly potent non-peptidic achiral inhibitors. A highly resolved (1.6 A) x-ray structure of PMII is presented, featuring a potent achiral inhibitor in an unprecedented orientation, contacting the catalytic aspartates indirectly via the "catalytic" water. Major side chain rearrangements in the active site occur, which open up a new pocket and allow a new binding mode of the inhibitor. Moreover, a second inhibitor molecule could be located unambiguously in the active site of PMII. These newly obtained structural insights will further guide our attempts to improve compound properties eventually leading to the identification of molecules suitable as antimalarial drugs.

X-ray structure of plasmepsin II complexed with a potent achiral inhibitor.,Prade L, Jones AF, Boss C, Richard-Bildstein S, Meyer S, Binkert C, Bur D J Biol Chem. 2005 Jun 24;280(25):23837-43. Epub 2005 Apr 19. PMID:15840589<ref>PMID:15840589</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Plasmepsin|Plasmepsin]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Plasmodium falciparum]]
[[Category: Binkert C]]
[[Category: Boss C]]
[[Category: Bur D]]
[[Category: Jones AF]]
[[Category: Meyer S]]
[[Category: Prade L]]
[[Category: Richards-Bildstein S]]