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Identification of productive inhibitor binding orientation in fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) by QM/MM mechanistic modelling
Abstract
Modelling of the mechanism of covalent adduct formation by the inhibitor O-arylcarbamate URB524 in FAAH shows that only one of the two possible inhibitor binding orientations is consistent with the experimentally observed irreversible carbamoylation of the nucleophile serine: this is a potentially crucial insight for designing new covalent inhibitors of this promising drug target.
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