Biomedicine Student at Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo. Currently works as Scientific initiation student in Laboratory of Applied Structural Biology, ICB-USP, oriented by Prof. Márcio Dias, and is a FAPESP fellow. Has experience with Fragment-Based Drug Discovery and techniques associated to the development of novel drugs targeting proteins. Currently involved in a Fragment-Based Drug Discovery project targeting Mur family proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Tuberculosis is a serious problem of public health because of the number of deaths caused by the disease and also by the number of resistant and multiresistant strains to all in use drugs. Among the key medicines used in the treatment of tuberculosis, isoniazid (INH) and pyrazinamide (PZA) are the first-line drugs, together withethambutol (EMB) and rifampicin (RIF). Recently, it has been …
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that affects about around 10 million people per year worldwide, being a leading cause of death from infectious disease. The therapy used to treat tuberculosis is complex and requires at least 3 different relatively toxic drugs for a period of approximately 6 months, which facilitates patient withdrawal and the emer…
Among the main drugs used to treat tuberculosis, isoniazid (INH) is considered a first-line drug and fluoroquinolones (FQL), mainly Moxifloxacin (MFX), are gaining space in the most current treatment regimens. Particularly, for INH and MFX, their targets, which include the enzymes InhA encoded by inhA gene, and DNA gyrase, encoded by gyrA and GryB genes, respectively, have the characteris…
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