Sulfonamide drugs like sulfanilamide inhibit tetrahydrofolate biosynthesis. What intermediate or intermediates in purine synthesis would you expect

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Sulfonamide drugs like sulfanilamide inhibit tetrahydrofolate biosynthesis. What intermediate or intermediates in purine synthesis would you expect to accumulate in sulfanilamide-treated bacteria? Suppose that a cultured mammalian cell line was treated with sulfanilamide? What intermediates might accumulate in these cells?
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Biochemistry Concepts and Connections

ISBN: 978-0321839923

1st edition

Authors: Dean R. Appling, Spencer J. Anthony Cahill, Christopher K. Mathews

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