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Type 4 phosphodiesterase (PDE4) inhibitors are emerging as new treatments for a number of disorders including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Here we report the biochemical characterization on the second generation inhibitor (+)-1 (L-, IC50=0.4 nM) and its enantiomer (-)-1 (L-, IC50=43 nM) and their cocrystal structures with PDE4D at 2.0 A resolution. Despite the 107-fold affinity difference, both enantiomers interact with the same sets of residues in the rigid active site. The weaker (-)-1 adopts an unfavorable conformation to preserve the pivotal interactions between the Mg-bound waters and the N-oxide of pyridine. These structures support a model in which inhibitors are anchored by the invariant glutamine at one end and the metal-pocket residues at another end. This model provides explanations for most of the observed structure-activity relationship and the metal ion dependency of the catechol-ether based inhibitors and should facilitate their further design.

2FM5 is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_protein Single protein] structure of sequence from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens Homo sapiens] with <scene name='pdbligand=ZN:'>ZN</scene>, <scene name='pdbligand=MG:'>MG</scene> and <scene name='pdbligand=M99:'>M99</scene> as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ligands ligands]. Active as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3',5'-cyclic-nucleotide_phosphodiesterase 3',5'-cyclic-nucleotide phosphodiesterase], with EC number [http://www.brenda-enzymes.info/php/result_flat.php4?ecno=3.1.4.17 3.1.4.17] Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=2FM5 OCA].  

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