The molecular basis of pyrazinamide activity on Mycobacterium tuberculosis PanD

The important tuberculosis drug pyrazinamide (PZA) is converted to its active form pyrazinoic acid (POA) in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Here the authors identify the pantothenate biosynthesis pathway enzyme aspartate decarboxylase (PanD) as the target of PZA and determine the POA bound Mtb Pan...

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Main Authors: Qingan Sun, Xiaojun Li, Lisa M. Perez, Wanliang Shi, Ying Zhang, James C. Sacchettini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14238-3