Structural Studies on PDE and Inhibitor Complexes

  • Lee, Jie-Oh (Dept. of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Published : 2002.06.01

Abstract

Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) regulate physiological processes by degrading ubiquitous intracellular second messengers, cAMP or cGMP. The first crystal structure of PDE4D catalytic domain and a bound inhibitor, zardaverine, was determined. Zardaverine binds to a highly conserved pocket that includes the catalytic metal binding site.(omitted)

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