Development of a Yeast Assay for Rapid Screening of Inhibitors of Human-Derived Pneumocystis carinii Dihydrofolate Reductase

AUTOR(ES)

Ma, Liang

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

Human-derived Pneumocystis carinii dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) was expressed in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain whose growth depends on complementation by this enzyme. We utilized a quantitative assay to measure the sensitivity of this yeast strain to DHFR inhibitors. This assay should be useful for identifying new inhibitors of human-derived P. carinii DHFR.

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