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Venianakis T, Primikyri A, Opatz T, Petry S, Papamokos G, Gerothanassis IP. NMR and Docking Calculations Reveal Novel Atomistic Selectivity of a Synthetic High-Affinity Free Fatty Acid vs. Free Fatty Acids in Sudlow's Drug Binding Sites in Human Serum Albumin. Molecules 2023; 28:7991. [PMID: 38138481 PMCID: PMC10745614 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28247991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 12/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023] Open
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Saturation transfer difference (STD), inter-ligand NOEs (INPHARMA NMR), and docking calculations are reported for investigating specific binding sites of the high-affinity synthetic 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazoyl-4-C12 fatty acid (NBD-C12 FA) with non-labeled human serum albumin (HSA) and in competition with the drugs warfarin and ibuprofen. A limited number of negative interligand NOEs between NBD-C12 FA and warfarin were interpreted in terms of a short-range allosteric competitive binding in the wide Sudlow's binding site II (FA7) of NBD-C12 FA with Ser-202, Lys-199, and Trp-214 and warfarin with Arg-218 and Arg-222. In contrast, the significant number of interligand NOEs between NBD-C12 FA and ibuprofen were interpreted in terms of a competitive binding mode in Sudlow's binding site I (FA3 and FA4) with Ser-342, Arg-348, Arg-485, Arg-410, and Tyr-411. NBD-C12 FA has the unique structural properties, compared to short-, medium-, and long-chain saturated and unsaturated natural free fatty acids, of interacting with well-defined structures with amino acids of both the internal and external polar anchor sites in Sudlow's binding site I and with amino acids in both FA3 and FA4 in Sudlow's binding site II. The NBD-C12 FA, therefore, interacts with novel structural characteristics in the drug binding sites I and II and can be regarded as a prototype molecule for drug development.
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- Themistoklis Venianakis
- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece; (T.V.); (A.P.)
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece; (T.V.); (A.P.)
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- Department of Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Duesbergweg, 10–14, 55128 Mainz, Germany;
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- Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Integrated Drug Discovery, Industriepark Höchst, 65926 Frankfurt am Main, Germany;
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece; (T.V.); (A.P.)
- Department of Physics, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece; (T.V.); (A.P.)
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Alexandri E, Venianakis T, Primikyri A, Papamokos G, Gerothanassis IP. Molecular Basis for the Selectivity of DHA and EPA in Sudlow's Drug Binding Sites in Human Serum Albumin with the Combined Use of NMR and Docking Calculations. Molecules 2023; 28:3724. [PMID: 37175134 PMCID: PMC10180286 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28093724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 04/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
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Medium- and long-chain saturated and unsaturated free fatty acids (FFAs) are known to bind to human serum albumin (HSA), the main plasma carrier protein. Atomic-level structural data regarding the binding mode in Sudlow's sites I (FA7) and II (FA4, FA3) of the polyunsaturated ω-3 fatty acids docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), however, are largely unknown. Herein, we report the combined use of saturation transfer difference (STD) and Interligand NOEs for Pharmacophore Mapping (INPHARMA) NMR techniques and molecular docking calculations to investigate the binding mode of DHA and EPA in Sudlow's sites Ι and ΙΙ of HSA. The docking calculations and the significant number of interligand NOEs between DHA and EPA and the drugs warfarin and ibuprofen, which are stereotypical ligands for Sudlow's sites I and II, respectively, were interpreted in terms of competitive binding modes and the presence of two orientations of DHA and EPA at the binding sites FA7 and FA4. The exceptional flexibility of the long-chain DHA and EPA and the formation of strongly folded structural motives are the key properties of HSA-PUFA complexes.
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece
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Gerothanassis IP. Ligand-observed in-tube NMR in natural products research: A review on enzymatic biotransformations, protein-ligand interactions, and in-cell NMR spectroscopy. ARAB J CHEM 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.arabjc.2022.104536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Napolitano JG, Yang C, Conklin B, He Y, Ochoa JL. Toward the Development of Rapid, Automated Identification Tests for Neat Organic Liquids Using Benchtop NMR Instrumentation. Anal Chem 2022; 94:16095-16102. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- José G. Napolitano
- Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences, Genentech Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Analytical Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences, Genentech Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Analytical Research and Development, AbbVie Inc., 1 North Waukegan Road, North Chicago, Illinois 60064, United States
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- Small Molecule Pharmaceutical Sciences, Genentech Inc., 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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Primikyri A, Papamokos G, Venianakis T, Sakka M, Kontogianni VG, Gerothanassis IP. Structural Basis of Artemisinin Binding Sites in Serum Albumin with the Combined Use of NMR and Docking Calculations. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27185912. [PMID: 36144648 PMCID: PMC9506303 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27185912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2022] [Revised: 09/04/2022] [Accepted: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Artemisinin is known to bind to the main plasma protein carrier serum albumin (SA); however, there are no atomic level structural data regarding its binding mode with serum albumin. Herein, we employed a combined strategy of saturation transfer difference (STD), transfer nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (TR-NOESY), STD–total correlation spectroscopy (STD-TOCSY), and Interligand Noes for PHArmacophore Mapping (INPHARMA) NMR methods and molecular docking calculations to investigate the structural basis of the interaction of artemisinin with human and bovine serum albumin (HSA/BSA). A significant number of inter-ligand NOEs between artemisinin and the drugs warfarin and ibuprofen as well as docking calculations were interpreted in terms of competitive binding modes of artemisinin in the warfarin (FA7) and ibuprofen (FA4) binding sites. STD NMR experiments demonstrate that artemisinin is the main analyte for the interaction of the A. annua extract with BSA. The combined strategy of NMR and docking calculations of the present work could be of general interest in the identification of the molecular basis of the interactions of natural products with their receptors even within a complex crude extract.
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Alexandri E, Primikyri A, Papamokos G, Venianakis T, Gkalpinos VK, Tzakos AG, Karydis-Messinis A, Moschovas D, Avgeropoulos A, Gerothanassis IP. NMR and computational studies reveal novel aspects in molecular recognition of unsaturated fatty acids with non-labelled serum albumin. FEBS J 2022; 289:5617-5636. [PMID: 35380736 DOI: 10.1111/febs.16453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 03/12/2022] [Accepted: 04/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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An approach based on the combined use of saturation transfer difference (STD), Tr-NOESY and Inter-ligand NOEs for PHArmacophore Mapping (INPHARMA) NMR techniques and docking calculations is reported, for the first time, for mapping interactions and specific binding sites of caproleic acid (10 : 1 cis-9), oleic acid (18 : 1 cis-9), linoleic acid (18 : 2 cis-9,12) and linolenic (18 : 3, cis-9,12,15) free fatty acids (FFAs) with non-labelled serum albumin (BSA/HSA). Significant negative inter-ligand NOEs between the FFAs and the drugs ibuprofen and warfarin, through competition experiments, were observed. The inter-ligand NOEs and docking calculations were interpreted in terms of competitive binding mode, the significant folding of the bis allylic region and the presence of two orientations of the FFAs in the warfarin binding site (FA7), due to two potential distinctive anchoring polar groups of amino acids. This conformational flexibility is the reason that, the location and conformational states of the FFAs in the binding site of warfarin could not be determined accurately, despite numerous available X-ray structural studies. α-Linolenic acid competes favourably with warfarin at the binding site FA7. Isothermal titration calorimetry experiments of the preformed HSA/α-linolenic acid complex upon titration with warfarin show a significant reduction in the binding constant of warfarin, in very good agreement with NMR and computational data. The combined use, therefore, of STD, Tr-NOESY and INPHARMA NMR, ITC and docking calculations may find promising applications in the field of protein-lipid recognition research.
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- Eleni Alexandri
- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece
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Kontogianni VG, Gerothanassis IP. Analytical and Structural Tools of Lipid Hydroperoxides: Present State and Future Perspectives. Molecules 2022; 27:2139. [PMID: 35408537 PMCID: PMC9000705 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27072139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Revised: 03/20/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Mono- and polyunsaturated lipids are particularly susceptible to peroxidation, which results in the formation of lipid hydroperoxides (LOOHs) as primary nonradical-reaction products. LOOHs may undergo degradation to various products that have been implicated in vital biological reactions, and thus in the pathogenesis of various diseases. The structure elucidation and qualitative and quantitative analysis of lipid hydroperoxides are therefore of great importance. The objectives of the present review are to provide a critical analysis of various methods that have been widely applied, and more specifically on volumetric methods, applications of UV-visible, infrared, Raman/surface-enhanced Raman, fluorescence and chemiluminescence spectroscopies, chromatographic methods, hyphenated MS techniques, NMR and chromatographic methods, NMR spectroscopy in mixture analysis, structural investigations based on quantum chemical calculations of NMR parameters, applications in living cells, and metabolomics. Emphasis will be given to analytical and structural methods that can contribute significantly to the molecular basis of the chemical process involved in the formation of lipid hydroperoxides without the need for the isolation of the individual components. Furthermore, future developments in the field will be discussed.
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- Vassiliki G. Kontogianni
- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece
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- Section of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece
- International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan
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Li GW, Wang XJ, Lei X, Liu N, Wu ZQ. Self-assembly of Helical Polymers and Oligomers to Create Liquid Crystalline Alignment for Anisotropic NMR Parameters. Macromol Rapid Commun 2022; 43:e2100898. [PMID: 35076973 DOI: 10.1002/marc.202100898] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2021] [Revised: 01/22/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The measurement of anisotropic residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) parameters for the structure elucidation of organic molecules relies on suitable alignment media. Employment of self-assembled liquid crystalline systems to create anisotropic alignment can be an effective way to realize aligned samples and acquire RDCs. This Mini-review highlights the recent advances on amino acid-based helical polymers and supramolecular oligomers forming rigid, rod-like structures that aggregate into ordered liquid crystalline phases, including amino acid-based helical polyisocyanides, polyacetylenes, polypeptides, and oligopeptides assembled alignment media. The methodology for the determination of anisotropic liquid crystals was briefly discussed, and a summary of recent research progress in the enantiodifferentiation of helical polymers aligned media was followed. In addition, the self-assembled mechanism of oligopeptides and their RDCs structural analysis were also described. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Gao-Wei Li
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Henan Engineering Laboratory of Green Synthesis for Pharmaceuticals, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, Henan Province, 476000, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Henan Engineering Laboratory of Green Synthesis for Pharmaceuticals, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, Henan Province, 476000, China
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Anhui Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials and Devices, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230009, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin Province, 130012, China
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Lesot P, Gil RR, Berdagué P, Navarro-Vázquez A. Deuterium Residual Quadrupolar Couplings: Crossing the Current Frontiers in the Relative Configuration Analysis of Natural Products. JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS 2020; 83:3141-3148. [PMID: 32970418 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00745] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The determination of the 3D structure (configuration and preferred conformation) of complex natural and synthetic organic molecules is a long-standing but still challenging task for chemists, with various implications in pharmaceutical sciences whether or not these substances have specific bioactivities. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in aligning media, either lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) or polymer gels, in combination with molecular modeling is a unique framework for solving complex structural problems whose analytical wealth lies in the establishment of nonlocal structural correlations. As an alternative to the already well-established anisotropic NMR parameters, such as RDCs (residual dipolar couplings) and RCSAs (residual chemical shift anisotropies), it is shown here that deuterium residual quadrupolar couplings (2H-RQCs) can be extracted from 2H 2D-NMR spectra recorded at the natural abundance level in samples oriented in a homopolypeptide LLCs (poly-γ-benzyl-l-glutamate (PBLG)). These 2H-RQCs were successfully used to address nontrivial structural problems in organic molecules. The performance and scope of this new tool is examined for two natural chiral compounds of pharmaceutical interest (strychnine and artemisinin). This is the first report in which the 3D structure/relative configuration of complex bioactive molecules is unambiguously determined using only 2H-RQCs, which, in this case, are at 2H natural abundance.
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- Philippe Lesot
- Université Paris-Saclay, UFR d'Orsay, RMN en Milieu Orienté, ICMMO, UMR CNRS 8182, Bât. 410, 15 rue du Doyen, Georges Poitou, F-91405 Orsay, France
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 3 rue Michel Ange, F-75016 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Université Paris-Saclay, UFR d'Orsay, RMN en Milieu Orienté, ICMMO, UMR CNRS 8182, Bât. 410, 15 rue du Doyen, Georges Poitou, F-91405 Orsay, France
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cidade Universitária, CEP 50.740-540 Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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Jednačak T, Mikulandra I, Novak P. Advanced Methods for Studying Structure and Interactions of Macrolide Antibiotics. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E7799. [PMID: 33096889 PMCID: PMC7589898 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21207799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2020] [Revised: 10/09/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Macrolide antibiotics are macrocyclic compounds that are clinically used and prescribed for the treatment of upper and lower respiratory tract infections. They inhibit the synthesis of bacterial proteins by reversible binding to the 23S rRNA at or near the peptidyl transferase center. However, their excellent antibacterial profile was largely compromised by the emergence of bacterial resistance. Today, fighting resistance to antibiotics is one of the greatest challenges in medicinal chemistry. Considering various physicochemical properties of macrolides, understanding their structure and interactions with macromolecular targets is crucial for the design of new antibiotics efficient against resistant pathogens. The solid-state structures of some macrolide-ribosome complexes have recently been solved, throwing new light on the macrolide binding mechanisms. On the other hand, a combination of NMR spectroscopy and molecular modeling calculations can be applied to study free and bound conformations in solution. In this article, a description of advanced physicochemical methods for elucidating the structure and interactions of macrolide antibiotics in solid state and solution will be provided, and their principal advantages and drawbacks will be discussed.
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- Tomislav Jednačak
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 102a, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 102a, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
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Maity S, Gundampati RK, Suresh Kumar TK. NMR Methods to Characterize Protein-Ligand Interactions. Nat Prod Commun 2019. [DOI: 10.1177/1934578x19849296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Structural information pertaining to the interactions between biological macromolecules and ligands is of potential significance for understanding of molecular mechanisms in key biological processes. Recently, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic techniques has come of age and has widened its scope to characterize binding interactions of small molecules with biological macromolecules especially, proteins. NMR spectroscopy-based techniques are versatile due to their ability to examine weak binding interactions and for rapid screening the binding affinities of ligands with proteins at atomic resolution. In this review, we provide a broad overview of some of the important NMR approaches to investigate interactions of small organic molecules with proteins.
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- Sanhita Maity
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA
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Maya-Martinez R, Alexander JAN, Otten CF, Ayala I, Vollmer D, Gray J, Bougault CM, Burt A, Laguri C, Fonvielle M, Arthur M, Strynadka NCJ, Vollmer W, Simorre JP. Recognition of Peptidoglycan Fragments by the Transpeptidase PBP4 From Staphylococcus aureus. Front Microbiol 2019; 9:3223. [PMID: 30713527 PMCID: PMC6346638 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2018] [Accepted: 12/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Peptidoglycan (PG) is an essential component of the cell envelope, maintaining bacterial cell shape and protecting it from bursting due to turgor pressure. The monoderm bacterium Staphylococcus aureus has a highly cross-linked PG, with ~90% of peptide stems participating in DD-cross-links and up to 15 peptide stems connected with each other. These cross-links are formed in transpeptidation reactions catalyzed by penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) of classes A and B. Most S. aureus strains have three housekeeping PBPs with this function (PBP1, PBP2, and PBP3) but MRSA strains have acquired a third class B PBP, PBP2a, which is encoded by the mecA gene and required for the expression of high-level resistance to β-lactams. Another housekeeping PBP of S. aureus is PBP4, which belongs to the class C PBPs, and hence would be expected to have PG hydrolase (DD-carboxypeptidase or DD-endopeptidase) activity. However, previous works showed that, unexpectedly, PBP4 has transpeptidase activity that significantly contributes to both the high level of cross-linking in the PG of S. aureus and to the low level of β-lactam resistance in the absence of PBP2a. To gain insights into this unusual activity of PBP4, we studied by NMR spectroscopy its interaction in vitro with different substrates, including intact peptidoglycan, synthetic peptide stems, muropeptides, and long glycan chains with uncross-linked peptide stems. PBP4 showed no affinity for the complex, intact peptidoglycan or the smallest isolated peptide stems. Transpeptidase activity of PBP4 was verified with the disaccharide peptide subunits (muropeptides) in vitro, producing cyclic dimer and multimer products; these assays also showed a designed PBP4(S75C) nucleophile mutant to be inactive. Using this inactive but structurally highly similar variant, liquid-state NMR identified two interaction surfaces in close proximity to the central nucleophile position that can accommodate the potential donor and acceptor stems for the transpeptidation reaction. A PBP4:muropeptide model structure was built from these experimental restraints, which provides new mechanistic insights into mecA independent resistance to β-lactams in S. aureus.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Centre for Blood Research, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, IBS, Grenoble, France
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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- University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, IBS, Grenoble, France
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- University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, IBS, Grenoble, France
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- Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, LRMA, Equipe 12, Université Sorbone-Paris, Paris, France
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- Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, LRMA, Equipe 12, Université Sorbone-Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Centre for Blood Research, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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Le‐Huu P, Rekow D, Krüger C, Bokel A, Heidt T, Schaubach S, Claasen B, Hölzel S, Frey W, Laschat S, Urlacher VB. Chemoenzymatic Route to Oxyfunctionalized Cembranoids Facilitated by Substrate and Protein Engineering. Chemistry 2018; 24:12010-12021. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201802250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2018] [Revised: 06/27/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Priska Le‐Huu
- Institute of BiochemistryHeinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Universitätsstrasse 1 40225 Düsseldorf Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 55 70569 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 55 70569 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of BiochemistryHeinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Universitätsstrasse 1 40225 Düsseldorf Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 55 70569 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 55 70569 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 55 70569 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of BiochemistryHeinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Universitätsstrasse 1 40225 Düsseldorf Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 55 70569 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of Organic ChemistryUniversity Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 55 70569 Stuttgart Germany
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- Institute of BiochemistryHeinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Universitätsstrasse 1 40225 Düsseldorf Germany
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Becker W, Bhattiprolu KC, Gubensäk N, Zangger K. Investigating Protein-Ligand Interactions by Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. Chemphyschem 2018; 19:895-906. [PMID: 29314603 PMCID: PMC5915746 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201701253] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2017] [Revised: 01/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Protein-ligand interactions are of fundamental importance in almost all processes in living organisms. The ligands comprise small molecules, drugs or biological macromolecules and their interaction strength varies over several orders of magnitude. Solution NMR spectroscopy offers a large repertoire of techniques to study such complexes. Here, we give an overview of the different NMR approaches available. The information they provide ranges from the simple information about the presence of binding or epitope mapping to the complete 3 D structure of the complex. NMR spectroscopy is particularly useful for the study of weak interactions and for the screening of binding ligands with atomic resolution.
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- Walter Becker
- Institute of ChemistryUniversity of GrazHeinrichstrasse 28A-8010GrazAustria
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- Institute of ChemistryUniversity of GrazHeinrichstrasse 28A-8010GrazAustria
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- Institute of ChemistryUniversity of GrazHeinrichstrasse 28A-8010GrazAustria
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Cornilescu G, Ramos Alvarenga RF, Wyche TP, Bugni TS, Gil RR, Cornilescu CC, Westler WM, Markley JL, Schwieters CD. Progressive Stereo Locking (PSL): A Residual Dipolar Coupling Based Force Field Method for Determining the Relative Configuration of Natural Products and Other Small Molecules. ACS Chem Biol 2017; 12:2157-2163. [PMID: 28617580 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Establishing the relative configuration of a bioactive natural product represents the most challenging part in determining its structure. Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) are sensitive probes of the relative spatial orientation of internuclear vectors. We adapted a force field structure calculation methodology to allow free sampling of both R and S configurations of the stereocenters of interest. The algorithm uses a floating alignment tensor in a simulated annealing protocol to identify the conformations and configurations that best fit experimental RDC and distance restraints (from NOE and J-coupling data). A unique configuration (for rigid molecules) or a very small number of configurations (for less rigid molecules) of the structural models having the lowest chiral angle energies and reasonable magnitudes of the alignment tensor are provided as the best predictions of the unknown configuration. For highly flexible molecules, the progressive locking of their stereocenters into their statistically dominant R or S state dramatically reduces the number of possible relative configurations. The result is verified by checking that the same configuration is obtained by initiating the locking from different regions of the molecule. For all molecules tested having known configurations (with conformations ranging from mostly rigid to highly flexible), the method accurately determined the correct configuration.
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- Pharmaceutical
Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
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- Pharmaceutical
Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
- Biological
Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Department, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Pharmaceutical
Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Center for
Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5624, United States
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Merten C, Dirkmann M, Schulz F. Stereochemical assignment of fusiccocadiene from NMR shielding constants and vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy. Chirality 2017; 29:409-414. [DOI: 10.1002/chir.22708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2017] [Revised: 03/06/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Christian Merten
- Organic Chemistry 2, Physical Organic Chemistry; Ruhr-University Bochum; Bochum Germany
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- Organic Chemistry 1, Natural Products Chemistry; Ruhr-University Bochum; Bochum Germany
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- Organic Chemistry 1, Natural Products Chemistry; Ruhr-University Bochum; Bochum Germany
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Essig S, Schmalzbauer B, Bretzke S, Scherer O, Koeberle A, Werz O, Müller R, Menche D. Predictive Bioinformatic Assignment of Methyl-Bearing Stereocenters, Total Synthesis, and an Additional Molecular Target of Ajudazol B. J Org Chem 2016; 81:1333-57. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.5b02844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Sebastian Essig
- Institut
für Organische Chemie, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Kekulé-Institut
für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bonn, Gerhard-Domagk-Strasse 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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- Institut
für Organische Chemie, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute
of Pharmacy, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Philosophenweg
14, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Institute
of Pharmacy, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Philosophenweg
14, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Institute
of Pharmacy, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, Philosophenweg
14, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Helmholtz
Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) and Institut
for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Universität des Saarlandes, C 2.3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Kekulé-Institut
für Organische Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Bonn, Gerhard-Domagk-Strasse 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany
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Aguirre C, Cala O, Krimm I. Overview of Probing Protein‐Ligand Interactions Using NMR. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 81:17.18.1-17.18.24. [DOI: 10.1002/0471140864.ps1718s81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Clémentine Aguirre
- Institut des Sciences Analytiques, UMR5280 CNRS, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Lyon Villeurbanne France
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- Institut des Sciences Analytiques, UMR5280 CNRS, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Lyon Villeurbanne France
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- Institut des Sciences Analytiques, UMR5280 CNRS, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Lyon Villeurbanne France
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Lancefield CS, Slawin AMZ, Westwood NJ, Lebl T. The use of residual dipolar coupling for conformational analysis of structurally related natural products. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2015; 53:467-75. [PMID: 25854705 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2014] [Revised: 12/23/2014] [Accepted: 12/28/2014] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Determining the conformational preferences of molecules in solution remains a considerable challenge. Recently, the use of residual dipolar coupling (RDC) analysis has emerged as a key method to address this. Whilst to date the majority of the applications have focused on biomolecules including proteins and DNA, the use of RDCs for studying small molecules is gaining popularity. Having said that, the method continues to develop, and here, we describe an early case study of the quantification of conformer populations in small molecules using RDC analysis. Having been inspired to study conformational preferences by unexpected differences in the NMR spectra and the reactivity of related natural products, we showed that the use of more established techniques was unsatisfactory in explaining the experimental observations. The use of RDCs provided an improved understanding that, following use of methods to quantify conformer populations using RDCs, culminated in a rationalisation of the contrasting diastereoselectivities observed in a ketone reduction reaction.
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- Christopher S Lancefield
- School of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews and EaStCHEM, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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- School of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews and EaStCHEM, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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- School of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews and EaStCHEM, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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- School of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, University of St Andrews and EaStCHEM, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9ST, UK
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The application of the results from various physical methods to the isolation, characterisation and elucidation of the structures and stereochemistry of natural products is reviewed.
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Cerofolini L, Amato J, Giachetti A, Limongelli V, Novellino E, Parrinello M, Fragai M, Randazzo A, Luchinat C. G-triplex structure and formation propensity. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:13393-404. [PMID: 25378342 PMCID: PMC4245950 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2014] [Revised: 10/15/2014] [Accepted: 10/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The occurrence of a G-triplex folding intermediate of thrombin binding aptamer (TBA) has been recently predicted by metadynamics calculations, and experimentally supported by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Circular Dichroism (CD) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) data collected on a 3' end TBA-truncated 11-mer oligonucleotide (11-mer-3'-t-TBA). Here we present the solution structure of 11-mer-3'-t-TBA in the presence of potassium ions. This structure is the first experimental example of a G-triplex folding, where a network of Hoogsteen-like hydrogen bonds stabilizes six guanines to form two G:G:G triad planes. The G-triplex folding of 11-mer-3'-t-TBA is stabilized by the potassium ion and destabilized by increasing the temperature. The superimposition of the experimental structure with that predicted by metadynamics shows a great similarity, with only significant differences involving two loops. These new structural data show that 11-mer-3'-t-TBA assumes a G-triplex DNA conformation as its stable form, reinforcing the idea that G-triplex folding intermediates may occur in vivo in human guanine-rich sequences. NMR and CD screening of eight different constructs obtained by removing from one to four bases at either the 3' and the 5' ends show that only the 11-mer-3'-t-TBA yields a relatively stable G-triplex.
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- Linda Cerofolini
- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence 50019, Italy Giotto Biotech, Via Madonna del Piano 6, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence 50019, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples 'Federico II', Naples I-80131, Italy
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- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence 50019, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples 'Federico II', Naples I-80131, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples 'Federico II', Naples I-80131, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich CH-8006, Swizerland Facoltà di Informatica, Istituto di Scienze Computazionali (ICS), Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano CH-6900, Switzerland
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- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence 50019, Italy Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence 50019, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples 'Federico II', Naples I-80131, Italy
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- Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence 50019, Italy Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence 50019, Italy
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Ming H, Tiejun C, Yanli W, Stephen BH. Web search and data mining of natural products and their bioactivities in PubChem. Sci China Chem 2013; 56:10.1007/s11426-013-4910-0. [PMID: 24363665 PMCID: PMC3869387 DOI: 10.1007/s11426-013-4910-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Natural products, as major resources for drug discovery historically, are gaining more attentions recently due to the advancement in genomic sequencing and other technologies, which makes them attractive and amenable to drug candidate screening. Collecting and mining the bioactivity information of natural products are extremely important for accelerating drug development process by reducing cost. Lately, a number of publicly accessible databases have been established to facilitate the access to the chemical biology data for small molecules including natural products. Thus, it is imperative for scientists in related fields to exploit these resources in order to expedite their researches on natural products as drug leads/candidates for disease treatment. PubChem, as a public database, contains large amounts of natural products associated with bioactivity data. In this review, we introduce the information system provided at PubChem, and systematically describe the applications for a set of PubChem web services for rapid data retrieval, analysis, and downloading of natural products. We hope this work can serve as a starting point for the researchers to perform data mining on natural products using PubChem.
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- Hao Ming
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
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Sang F, Feng P, Chen J, Ding Y, Duan X, Zhai J, Ma X, Zhang B, Zhang Q, Lin J, Chen Y. Epothilone D and its 9-Methyl analogues: combinatorial syntheses, conformation, and biological activities. Eur J Med Chem 2013; 68:321-32. [PMID: 23994325 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2013.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2013] [Revised: 07/25/2013] [Accepted: 08/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Epothilone D (Epo D) and its 9-Methyl conformational analogues were synthesized through a highly efficient combinatorial approach. The fragment E was synthesized in 11 total steps with 6 longest linear steps, and each aldehyde B was prepared via a 3-step sequence. Starting from the common precursor E and a suitable aldehydes B, each target molecule were obtained in only 4 steps. The 9-(S)-epo D and 9-(R)-epo D demonstrated significant difference in inhibition activities against cancer cell lines and in conformational analysis.
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- Feng Sang
- State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology and College of Pharmacy, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, PR China
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Skjærven L, Codutti L, Angelini A, Grimaldi M, Latek D, Monecke P, Dreyer MK, Carlomagno T. Accounting for Conformational Variability in Protein–Ligand Docking with NMR-Guided Rescoring. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:5819-27. [DOI: 10.1021/ja4007468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Lars Skjærven
- EMBL, Structural and Computational Biology
Unit, Meyerhofstraße
1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- EMBL, Structural and Computational Biology
Unit, Meyerhofstraße
1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- EMBL, Structural and Computational Biology
Unit, Meyerhofstraße
1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- EMBL, Structural and Computational Biology
Unit, Meyerhofstraße
1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biomedical and
Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo 8, 84024 Fisciano (SA), Italy
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- EMBL, Structural and Computational Biology
Unit, Meyerhofstraße
1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH R&D LGCR/Structure, Design & Informatics, Industriepark Höchst, Bldg. G838, D-65926 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH R&D LGCR/Structure, Design & Informatics, Industriepark Höchst, Bldg. G838, D-65926 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- EMBL, Structural and Computational Biology
Unit, Meyerhofstraße
1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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