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SUBMITTER: Czub MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902233 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Czub Mateusz P MP Handing Katarzyna B KB Venkataramany Barat S BS Cooper David R DR Shabalin Ivan G IG Minor Wladek W
Journal of medicinal chemistry 20200617 13
Every day, hundreds of millions of people worldwide take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), often in conjunction with multiple other medications. In the bloodstream, NSAIDs are mostly bound to serum albumin (SA). We report the crystal structures of equine serum albumin complexed with four NSAIDs (ibuprofen, ketoprofen, etodolac, and nabumetone) and the active metabolite of nabumetone (6-methoxy-2-naphthylacetic acid, 6-MNA). These compounds bind to seven drug-binding sites on SA. The ...[more]