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I'm a little confused by "Mercury drug", since methotrexate does not actually contain mercury. The IUPAC name is (2S)-2-[(4-{[(2,4-diaminopteridin-6-yl)methyl](methyl)amino}benzoyl)amino]pentanedioic acid, which probably doesn't mean much to you unless you're a real organic chemistry geek, but if you're asking what it's for... it's mainly an antineoplastic, though it's also used in lower doses for autoimmune diseases and as an abortifacient. It's structurally very similar to dihydrofolic acid, so it acts as an inhibitor for dihydrofolate reduction and effectively shuts down a crucial metabolic pathway for the synthesis of DNA, RNA, and purines generally.

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