This paper examines the functional mechanism of thioxolone, a compound recently identified as a weak inhibitor of human carbonic anhydrase II by Iyer et al. (2006) J. Biomol. Screening 11, 782−791.

Multiple pharmacophore models were constructed based on the 18 crystal structures of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) in complex with different inhibitors for discovering new potential PDE4 inhibitors.