Bedaquiline fumarate

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-011933",
  "term": "Bedaquiline fumarate",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "The fumarate salt form of bedaquiline, an orally bioavailable diarylquinoline antimycobacterial agent, that can be used in the treatment of pulmonary multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Upon oral administration, bedaquiline specifically binds to subunit c of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) synthase, thereby preventing ATP synthase activity. This inhibits ATP synthesis in M. tuberculosis, thereby blocking its energy metabolism and killing M. tuberculosis.",
  "synonyms": [
    "BDQ fumarate"
  ],
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/bedaquiline-fumarate/"
}