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Hall MB, Lima L, Coin LJM, Iqbal Z. Drug resistance prediction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis with reference graphs. Microb Genom 2023; 9:mgen001081. [PMID: 37552534 PMCID: PMC10483414 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.001081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Tuberculosis is a global pandemic disease with a rising burden of antimicrobial resistance. As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) has a goal of enabling universal access to drug susceptibility testing (DST). Given the slowness of and infrastructure requirements for phenotypic DST, whole-genome sequencing, followed by genotype-based prediction of DST, now provides a route to achieving this. Since a central component of genotypic DST is to detect the presence of any known resistance-causing mutations, a natural approach is to use a reference graph that allows encoding of known variation. We have developed DrPRG (Drug resistance Prediction with Reference Graphs) using the bacterial reference graph method Pandora. First, we outline the construction of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance reference graph. The graph is built from a global dataset of isolates with varying drug susceptibility profiles, thus capturing common and rare resistance- and susceptible-associated haplotypes. We benchmark DrPRG against the existing graph-based tool Mykrobe and the haplotype-based approach of TBProfiler using 44 709 and 138 publicly available Illumina and Nanopore samples with associated phenotypes. We find that DrPRG has significantly improved sensitivity and specificity for some drugs compared to these tools, with no significant decreases. It uses significantly less computational memory than both tools, and provides significantly faster runtimes, except when runtime is compared to Mykrobe with Nanopore data. We discover and discuss novel insights into resistance-conferring variation for M. tuberculosis - including deletion of genes katG and pncA - and suggest mutations that may warrant reclassification as associated with resistance.
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- Michael B. Hall
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
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Dasmahapatra U, Rajasekhar S, Neelima G, Maiti B, Karuppasamy R, Murali P, Mm B, Chanda K. In Silico Design and Investigation of Novel Thiazetidine Derivatives as Potent Inhibitors of PrpR in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Chem Biodivers 2023; 20:e202200925. [PMID: 36519809 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202200925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2022] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Tuberculosis is one of the most life-threatening acute infectious diseases diagnosed in humans. In the present investigation, a series of 16 new disubstituted 1,3-thiazetidines derivatives is designed, and investigated via various in silico methods for their potential as anti-tubercular agent by evaluating their ability to block the active site of PrpR transcription factor protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The efficacy of the molecules was initially assessed with the help of AutoDock Vina algorithm. Further Glide module is used to redock the previously docked complexes. The binding energies and other physiochemical properties of the designed molecules were evaluated using the Prime-MM/GBSA and the QikProp module, respectively. The results of docking revealed the nature, site of interaction and the binding affinity between the proposed candidates and the active site of PrpR. Further the inhibitory effect of the scaffolds was predicted and evaluated employing a machine learning-based algorithm and was used accordingly. Further, the molecular dynamics simulation studies ascertained the binding characteristics of the unique 13, when analysed across a time frame of 100 ns with GROMACS software. The results show that the proposed 1,3-thiazetidine derivatives such as 10, 11, 13 and 14 could be potent and selective anti-tubercular agents as compared to the standard drug Pyrazinamide. Finally, this study concludes that designed thiazetidines can be employed as anti-tubercular agents. Undeniably, the results may guide the experimental biologists to develop safe and non-toxic drugs against tuberculosis by demanding further in vivo and in vitro analyses.
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- Upala Dasmahapatra
- Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, 632014
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sri Venkateswara College of Pharmacy, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India, 517127
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sri Venkateswara College of Pharmacy, Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, India, 517127
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, 632014
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, 632014
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Bio Sciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, 632014
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- Chemistry Division, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, 600027
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, 632014
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A thermostable bacterial catalase-peroxidase oxidizes phenolic compounds derived from lignins. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 107:201-217. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-022-12263-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2022] [Revised: 10/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Anand PK, Kumar A, Saini A, Kaur J. Mutation in Eth A protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis conferred drug tolerance against enthinoamide in Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155. Comput Biol Chem 2022; 98:107677. [DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2022.107677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2021] [Revised: 03/15/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Zeng W, Zheng S, Mao Y, Wang S, Zhong Y, Cao W, Su T, Gong M, Cheng J, Zhang Y, Yang H. Elevated N-Glycosylation Contributes to the Cisplatin Resistance of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells Revealed by Membrane Proteomic and Glycoproteomic Analysis. Front Pharmacol 2022; 12:805499. [PMID: 35002739 PMCID: PMC8728018 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2021.805499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Chemoresistance is the major restriction on the clinical use of cisplatin. Aberrant changes in protein glycosylation are closely associated with drug resistance. Comprehensive study on the role of protein glycosylation in the development of cisplatin resistance would contribute to precise elucidation of the complicated mechanism of resistance. However, comprehensive characterization of glycosylated proteins remains a big challenge. In this work, we integrated proteomic and N-glycoproteomic workflow to comprehensively characterize the cisplatin resistance-related membrane proteins. Using this method, we found that proteins implicated in cell adhesion, migration, response to drug, and signal transduction were significantly altered in both protein abundance and glycosylation level during the development of cisplatin resistance in the non-small cell lung cancer cell line. Accordingly, the ability of cell migration and invasion was markedly increased in cisplatin-resistant cells, hence intensifying their malignancy. In contrast, the intracellular cisplatin accumulation was significantly reduced in the resistant cells concomitant with the down-regulation of drug uptake channel protein, LRRC8A, and over-expression of drug efflux pump proteins, MRP1 and MRP4. Moreover, the global glycosylation was elevated in the cisplatin-resistant cells. Consequently, inhibition of N-glycosylation reduced cell resistance to cisplatin, whereas promoting the high-mannose or sialylated type of glycosylation enhanced the resistance, suggesting that critical glycosylation type contributes to cisplatin resistance. These results demonstrate the high efficiency of the integrated proteomic and N-glycoproteomic workflow in discovering drug resistance-related targets, and provide new insights into the mechanism of cisplatin resistance.
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- Wenjuan Zeng
- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Thoracic Oncology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.,Sichuan Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pathology in Clinical Application, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- NHC Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Institutes for Systems Genetics, National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.,Sichuan Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Pathology in Clinical Application, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Targeting the Autophagy Specific Lipid Kinase VPS34 for Cancer Treatment: An Integrative Repurposing Strategy. Protein J 2021; 40:41-53. [PMID: 33400087 DOI: 10.1007/s10930-020-09955-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The impact of autophagy on cancer treatment and its corresponding responsiveness has galvanized the scientific community to develop novel inhibitors for cancer treatment. Importantly, the discovery of inhibitors that targets the early phase of autophagy was identified as a beneficial choice. Despite the number of research in recent years, screening of the DrugBank repository (9591 molecules) for the Vacuolar protein sorting 34 (VPS34) has not been reported earlier. Therefore, the present study was designed to identify potential VPS34 antagonists using integrated pharmacophore strategies. Primarily, an energy-based pharmacophore and receptor cavity-based analysis yielded five (DHRRR) and seven featured (AADDHRR) pharmacophore hypotheses respectively, which were utilized for the database screening process. The glide score, the binding free energy, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics properties were examined to narrow down the screened compounds. This analysis yielded a hit molecule, DB03916 that exhibited a better docking score, higher binding affinity and better drug-like properties in contrast to the reference compound that suffers from a toxicity property. Importantly, the result was validated using a 50 ns molecular dynamics simulation study. Overall, we conclude that the identified hit molecule DB03916 is believed to serve as a prospective antagonist against VPS34 for cancer treatment.
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Maamoun I, Falyouna O, Eljamal R, Bensaida K, Eljamal O. Optimization Modeling of nFe0/Cu-PRB Design for Cr(VI) Removal from Groundwater. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021. [DOI: 10.18178/ijesd.2021.12.5.1330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/07/2022]
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Hexavalent chromium is one of the highly toxic heavy metals which could lead to severe health issues when it is discharged into aquifers as industrial wastewater. In the current study nFe0/Cu was successfully employed in PRB technology for Cr(VI) removal from groundwater. Batch and column experiments confirmed the high reactive performance of nFe0/Cu towards Cr(VI) removal by around 85% removal efficiency. The main pathways for Cr-species removal by nFe0/Cu were determined as the reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III) by both nFe0 and Cu0 and the precipitation/co-precipitation of Cr(III) with the released iron oxides on the nFe0/Cu surface. The developed 3D-surface response optimization model confirmed the reciprocal relation between the residence time, barrier thickness and hydraulic conductivity. The interaction and sensitivity analysis between the model’s parameters were significantly crucial for defining the optimal design conditions of the nFe0/Cu-PRB. Generally, the current study could represent a great contribution in scaling-up the PRB technology towards the real field applications.
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Khmelevtsova LE, Sazykin IS, Azhogina TN, Sazykina MA. Prokaryotic Peroxidases and Their Application in Biotechnology (Review). APPL BIOCHEM MICRO+ 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s0003683820030059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Singh A, Das M, Grover A. Molecular mechanism of acetoacetyl-CoA enhanced kinetics for increased bioplastic production from Cupriavidus necator 428. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:827-840. [PMID: 30836854 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1590239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Polyhydroxyalkanoates are gaining importance due to their biodegradable nature and close analogy to plastics. Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is the most widely used bioplastic from polyalkanoate family, which is produced by a legion of bacterial species via phbCAB operon encoding β-ketothiolase (PhaA), NADPH-dependent acetoacetyl-coenzyme A (acetoacetyl-CoA) reductase (PhaB) and polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase (PhaC). Augmentation in the activity of these enzymes is promising for increased PHB production which is achieved by enzyme engineering strategies including non-structural and structural approaches. Our study is deployed on directed evolution-based experimentally reported mutants of PhaB enzyme with increased efficiency due to impact on critical structural factors. We have analyzed and compared the native PhaB with two of its variants Q47L and T173S in complex with their cofactor i.e. NADPH as well as the substrate i.e. acetoacetyl-CoA, via long range molecular dynamics simulations. Interaction profile, MMPBSA, essential dynamics, and free energy landscape analysis revealed that the enzyme efficiency is critically affected by cofactor interactions. It was also observed that mutants have higher equilibrium constant with lesser but optimal affinity for substrate and cofactor than the wild type, which might be the reason for increased efficiency of the mutants via enhanced substrate and cofactor exchange rate. Our study provides insights into the cofactor and substrate binding affinities to PhaB enzyme at atomistic level, which will facilitate designing of highly efficient PhaB enzymes for increased PHB production. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Aditi Singh
- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.,Department of Biotechnology, TERI School of Advanced Studies, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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Vats S, Shanker A. Groups of coevolving positions provide drug resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A study using targets of first-line antituberculosis drugs. Int J Antimicrob Agents 2019; 53:197-202. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/05/2018] [Revised: 10/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Rabha A, Singh A, Grover S, Kumari A, Pandey B, Grover A. Structural basis for isoniazid resistance in KatG double mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Microb Pathog 2019; 129:152-160. [PMID: 30731190 DOI: 10.1016/j.micpath.2019.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2018] [Revised: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The failure of drugs for effective treatment against infectious diseases can be attributed to resistant forms of causative agents. The evasive nature of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is partly associated to its physical features, such as having a thick cell wall and incorporation of beneficial mutations leading to drug resistance. The pro drug Isoniazid (INH) interacts with an enzyme catalase peroxidase to get converted into its active form and upon activation stops the cell wall synthesis thus killing the Mycobacterium. The most common mutation i.e. S315T leads to high degree of drug resistance by virtue of its position in the active site. Here, we have characterized the prominent attributes of two double mutant isolates S315 T/D194G and S315T/M624V which are multi drug resistant and extremely drug resistant, respectively. Protein models were generated using the crystal structure which were then subjected to energy minimization and long term molecular dynamics simulations. Further, computational analysis showed decreasing ability of INH binding to the mutants in order of: Native > S315T/D194G > S315T/M624V. Also, a trend was observed that as the docking score and binding area decreased, there was a significant increase in the distortion of the 3D geometry of the mutants as observed by PCA analysis.
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- Aneesh Rabha
- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India; Department of Biotechnology, TERI School of Advanced Studies, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110070, India
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- Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 110016, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India; Department of Biotechnology, TERI School of Advanced Studies, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110070, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
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Singh A, Somvanshi P, Grover A. Drug repurposing against arabinosyl transferase (EmbC) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Essential dynamics and free energy minima based binding mechanics analysis. Gene 2019; 693:114-126. [PMID: 30716439 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2019.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2018] [Revised: 12/20/2018] [Accepted: 01/02/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Arabinosyl tranferases (embA, embB, embC) are the key enzymes responsible for biogenesis of arabinan domain of arabinogalactan (AG) and lipoarabinomannan (LAM), two major heteropolysaccharide constituents of the peculiar mycobacterial cell envelope. EmbC is predominantly responsible for LAM synthesis and has been commonly associated with Ethambutol resistance. We have screened the FDA library against EmbC to reposition a drug better than Ethambutol with higher binding affinity to Embc. High throughput virtual screening followed by extra precision docking using Glide gave two best leads i.e. Terlipressin and Amikacin with docking score of -11.39 kcal/mol and -10.71 kcal/mol, respectively. Binding mechanics of the selected drugs was elucidated through long range molecular dynamics simulations (100 ns) using binding free energy rescoring, essential dynamics and free energy minima based approaches, thus revealing the most stable binding modes of Terlipressin with EmbC. Our study establishes the EmbC binding potential of the repurposed drugs Terlipressin and Amikacin.
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- Aditi Singh
- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India; Department of Biotechnology, TERI School of Advanced Studies, Plot No. 10, Vasant Kunj Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110070, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, TERI School of Advanced Studies, Plot No. 10, Vasant Kunj Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, 110070, India.
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India.
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Gupta MK, Vadde R, Gouda G, Donde R, Kumar J, Behera L. Computational approach to understand molecular mechanism involved in BPH resistance in Bt- rice plant. J Mol Graph Model 2019; 88:209-220. [PMID: 30743158 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2019.01.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2018] [Revised: 01/05/2019] [Accepted: 01/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In silico approach was utilised to identify differentially expressed key hub genes during BPH infestation on Bt rice plant, under laboratory conditions. Re-analysis of GSE74745 data with in-house R scripts and STRING database reveals that only 5 key hub genes, namely Os05g0176100, Os06g0683200, Os07g0208500, Os07g0252400 and Os07g0424400, belonging to cellulose synthase family, are differentially expressed and have confidence score ≥0.9 among themselves. Conserve domain analysis of all proteins encoded via these 5 key hub genes reveals that they have a common cellulose synthase domain, in which "Plant-Conserved Region" (PCR) is highly conserved. After binding with other domains of cellulose synthase proteins or other accessory proteins, like sucrose synthase, PCR serves as a metabolic channel to deliver UDP-Glucose, which is the main substrate for cellulose synthesis, into the active site of cellulose synthase and initiate cellulose synthesis. Simulation study of recently solved topological model of PCR [PDB ID: 5JNP] and molecular docking studies of PCR with UDP-glucose reveals that, during BPH infestation, in nearby phloem tissue where BPH suck sap, there is an increase interaction of UDP-glucose with PCR and other accessory proteins which in turn increases both the stability of PCR and the production of cellulose, finally causing callose deposition at that site and hence causing longer nymphal developmental period and lower fertility of BPH infested on Bt rice. In near future, these differentially identified 5 hub genes could be possible targets for controlling BPH infestation in rice plant under field conditions and increasing rice yield globally.
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- Manoj Kumar Gupta
- Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, 516003, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Biotechnology & Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, 516003, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753 006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753 006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753 006, India
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- ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, 753 006, India.
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Gupta MK, Vadde R. Insights into the structure–function relationship of both wild and mutant zinc transporter ZnT8 in human: a computational structural biology approach. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:137-151. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1567391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Manoj Kumar Gupta
- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, India
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- Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, India
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Kumar N, Singh A, Grover S, Kumari A, Kumar Dhar P, Chandra R, Grover A. HHV-5 epitope: A potential vaccine candidate with high antigenicity and large coverage. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2018; 37:2098-2109. [PMID: 30044169 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2018.1477620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Outbreak of Human Herpes virus-5 (HHV-5) infection in emerging countries has raised worldwide health concern owing to prevalence of congenital impairments and life threatening consequences in immunocompromised individuals. Thus, there lies an impending need to develop vaccine against HHV-5. HHV-5 enters into host cells with the help of necessary components glycoprotein B (gB) and H/L. In this study, the conformational linear B-cell and T-cell epitopes for gB of HHV-5 have been predicted using conformational approaches, for their possible collective use as vaccine candidates. We examined epitope's interactions with major histocompatibility complexes using molecular docking and also investigated their stable binding with specific toll like receptor-2 (TLR2), present on host cells during HHV-5 infection. Predicted MHC-I epitope 'LVAIAVVII' with high antigenicity and large coverage of HLA alleles was found to superimpose on MHC-II epitope (Rank 1) and was also identified to be the core sequence of putative B cell epitope 'ILVAIAVVIITYLI'. Resulting epitope was found to have consistent interaction with TLR2 during long term (100 ns) MD run. We also validated this nonamer epitope for its dissimilarity with human genome and high population coverage, suggesting it to be a potential vaccine candidate with higher coverage for both the MHC alleles of Indian population. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Neeraj Kumar
- a Drug Discovery and Development Laboratory, Department of Chemistry , University of Delhi , New Delhi , India
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- b Department of Biotechnology , TERI School of Advanced Studies , New Delhi , India.,c School of Biotechnology , Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi , India
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- d Kusuma School of Biological Sciences , IIT Delhi , New Delhi , India
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- b Department of Biotechnology , TERI School of Advanced Studies , New Delhi , India.,c School of Biotechnology , Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi , India
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- c School of Biotechnology , Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi , India
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- a Drug Discovery and Development Laboratory, Department of Chemistry , University of Delhi , New Delhi , India
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- c School of Biotechnology , Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi , India
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