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Letters to the Editor

Vorinostat, a possible alternative to metronidazole for the treatment of amebiasis caused by Entamoeba histolytica

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Pages 597-603 | Received 05 Oct 2018, Accepted 31 Jan 2019, Published online: 26 Apr 2019
 

Abstract

Abbreviations
SAHA=

suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid

EhHDAC=

Histone Deacetylase from Entamoeba histolytica

Rg=

Radius of gyration

RMSD=

root-mean-square deviation

RMSF=

root-mean-square fluctuation

MDS=

molecular dynamics simulation

VMD=

Visual Molecular Dynamics

NAMD=

Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics

PBC=

periodic boundary conditions

PME=

Particle Mesh Ewald

3D=

three-dimensional

=

alpha carbon

FDA=

Food and Drug Administration

ns=

nanoseconds

GPU CUDA=

Graphics Processing Unit Compute Unified Device Architecture

Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Héctor Oliver-Hernández for art work support. We are also grateful to LANCAD for the supercomputer time support. The MD simulation was performed in the Laboratory of Bioinformatics at FCQB-UAS and in the Hybrid Cluster Xiuhcoatl (http://clusterhibrido.cinvestav.mx) at CINVESTAV-IPN, México.

Disclosure statement

The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, preparation of the manuscript or decision to publish.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by PRODEP-SEP-México to LLC and PROFAPI grant [2015/182] to SM.

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