Synonyms: BMY-28689 | Monodox® | Vibramycin®
doxycycline is an approved drug (FDA (1967), UK (2000))
Compound class:
Synthetic organic
Comment: Doxycycline is a tetracycline based antibacterial. It has been repurposed as a low-potency human metalloprotease inhibitor for periodontitis and is also used as an antimalarial therapy.
There are a number of salt forms in PubChem. The chemical structure we show here matches that of the consensus structure in PubChem, listed in the links table below. The DrugBank, ChEBI, ChEMBL and PDB entries for doxycycline show a different structure. Doxycycline is one of the key access group antibacterials on the World Health Organization's Model List of Essential Medicines (link provided in the Classification table, under the Summary tab below). The Malaria tab on this ligand page provides additional curator comments of relevance to the Guide to MALARIA PHARMACOLOGY. Ligand Activity Visualisation ChartsThese are box plot that provide a unique visualisation, summarising all the activity data for a ligand taken from ChEMBL and GtoPdb across multiple targets and species. Click on a plot to see the median, interquartile range, low and high data points. A value of zero indicates that no data are available. A separate chart is created for each target, and where possible the algorithm tries to merge ChEMBL and GtoPdb targets by matching them on name and UniProt accession, for each available species. However, please note that inconsistency in naming of targets may lead to data for the same target being reported across multiple charts. ✖ |
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Guide to Malaria Pharmacology Comments |
Doxycycline is listed in the WHO's Model List of Essential Medicines as both a curative treatment for severe P. falciparum malaria (in combination with quinine) and for malaria prophylaxis as a monotherapy. Potential Target/Mechanism Of Action: As the precise mechanism of action in the malaria parasite is not yet known, we have not tagged a Plasmodium molecular target for this compound. Further information about possible mechanistic insights is provided under the Clinical data tab. |