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Juanes M, Paoloni L, Li W, Picón A, Melandri S, Maris A, Lesarri A, Evangelisti L. Exploring the conformational landscape through rotational spectroscopy and computational modelling: The tunneling dynamics in 2,6-diethylphenol. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2025; 324:124978. [PMID: 39167897 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2024.124978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2024] [Revised: 08/10/2024] [Accepted: 08/12/2024] [Indexed: 08/23/2024]
Abstract
Phenol and some of its derivatives exhibit interesting tunneling motions consisting of two groups of transitions separated by a few hundred MHz. Recently, one of its derivatives, 2,6-di-tert-butylphenol, has shown additional hyperfine tunneling components, the origin of which remains unclear. In this work, another member of the family, 2,6-diethylphenol, has been investigated through its rotational spectrum. The jet-cooled broadband chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectra in the 2-8 GHz frequency region revealed the presence of two conformers. The comparison with the equilibrium structure obtained by computational calculations at the B3LYP-D3(BJ)/Def2-TZVP level validates the structural determination and the orientation of the lateral ethyl groups. Additional observation of all the singly-substituted 13C isotopologues for the most stable ones allowed the determination of the substitution structure by means of the Kraitchman equations. Both conformers exhibited tunneling that was reproduced using an advanced 1D model, which provides an estimate of the barrier height for both conformers.
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- Marcos Juanes
- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias-I.U. CINQUIMA, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo de Belén 7, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias-I.U. CINQUIMA, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo de Belén 7, 47011 Valladolid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain; Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry "G. Ciamician" - University of Bologna, Via F. Selmi 2, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry "G. Ciamician" - University of Bologna, Via F. Selmi 2, Bologna, Italy
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- Departamento de Química Física y Química Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias-I.U. CINQUIMA, Universidad de Valladolid, Paseo de Belén 7, 47011 Valladolid, Spain.
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- Department of Chemistry "G. Ciamician" - University of Bologna, Via F. Selmi 2, Bologna, Italy.
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Plasencia DM, Rodgers LH, Knighton AR, Eckenhoff RG, White ER. Antagonism of propofol anesthesia by alkyl-fluorobenzene derivatives. Sci Rep 2024; 14:15943. [PMID: 38987614 PMCID: PMC11236999 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-66672-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 07/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Despite their frequent use across many clinical settings, general anesthetics are medications with lethal side effects and no reversal agents. A fluorinated analogue of propofol has previously been shown to antagonize propofol anesthesia in tadpoles and zebrafish, but little further investigation of this class of molecules as anesthetic antagonists has been conducted. A 13-member library of alkyl-fluorobenzene derivatives was tested in an established behavioral model of anesthesia in zebrafish at 5 days post fertilization. These compounds were examined for their ability to antagonize propofol and two volatile anesthetics, as well as their interaction with the anesthetic-binding model protein apoferritin. Two compounds provided significant antagonism of propofol, and when combined, were synergistic, suggesting more than one antagonist sensitive target site. These compounds did not antagonize the volatile anesthetics, indicating some selectivity amongst general anesthetics. For the compounds with the most antagonistic potency, similarities in structure and binding to apoferritin may be suggestive of competitive antagonism; however, this was not supported by a Schild analysis. This is consistent with multiple targets contributing to general anesthesia, but whether these are physiologic antagonists or are antagonists at only some subset of the many anesthetic potential targets remains unclear, and will require additional investigation.
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- Diana M Plasencia
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
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Yousefi A, Zheng Z, Zargarbashi S, Assadipapari M, Hickman GJ, Parmenter CD, Bueno-Alejo CJ, Sanderson G, Craske D, Xu L, Perry CC, Rahmani M, Ying C. Structural Flexibility and Disassembly Kinetics of Single Ferritin Molecules Using Optical Nanotweezers. ACS NANO 2024; 18:15617-15626. [PMID: 38850556 PMCID: PMC11191739 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c01221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2024] [Revised: 05/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/31/2024] [Indexed: 06/10/2024]
Abstract
Ferritin, a spherical protein shell assembled from 24 subunits, functions as an efficient iron storage and release system through its channels. Understanding how various chemicals affect the structural behavior of ferritin is crucial for unravelling the origins of iron-related diseases in living organisms including humans. In particular, the influence of chemicals on ferritin's dynamics and iron release is barely explored at the single-protein level. Here, by employing optical nanotweezers using double-nanohole (DNH) structures, we examined the effect of ascorbic acid (reducing reagent) and pH on individual ferritin's conformational dynamics. The dynamics of ferritin increased as the concentration of ascorbic acid approached saturation. At pH 2.0, ferritin exhibited significant structural fluctuations and eventually underwent a stepwise disassembly into fragments. This work demonstrated the disassembly pathway and kinetics of a single ferritin molecule in solution. We identified four critical fragments during its disassembly pathway, which are 22-mer, 12-mer, tetramer, and dimer subunits. Moreover, we present single-molecule evidence of the cooperative disassembly of ferritin. Interrogating ferritin's structural change in response to different chemicals holds importance for understanding their roles in iron metabolism, hence facilitating further development of medical treatments for its associated diseases.
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- Arman Yousefi
- Advanced
Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG118NS, United
Kingdom
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- Advanced
Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG118NS, United
Kingdom
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- Advanced
Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG118NS, United
Kingdom
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- Advanced
Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG118NS, United
Kingdom
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- School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom
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- Advanced
Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG118NS, United
Kingdom
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- School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, United Kingdom
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- Advanced
Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG118NS, United
Kingdom
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- Interdisciplinary
Biomedical Research Centre, School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, United Kingdom
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- Advanced
Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG118NS, United
Kingdom
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- Advanced
Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Department of Engineering, School
of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent
University, Nottingham NG118NS, United
Kingdom
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Plasencia DM, Rodgers LH, Knighton AR, Eckenhoff RG, White ER. Antagonism of Propofol Anesthesia by Alkyl-fluorobenzene Derivatives. RESEARCH SQUARE 2024:rs.3.rs-3846123. [PMID: 38260679 PMCID: PMC10802710 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3846123/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
Abstract
Despite their frequent use across many clinical settings, general anesthetics are medications with lethal side effects and no reversal agents. A fluorinated analogue of propofol has previously been shown to antagonize propofol anesthesia in tadpoles and zebrafish, but little further investigation of this class of molecules as anesthetic antagonists has been conducted. A 13-member library of alkyl-fluorobenzene derivatives was tested in an established behavioral model of anesthesia in zebrafish at 5 days post fertilization. These compounds were examined for their ability to antagonize propofol and two volatile anesthetics, as well as their binding to the anesthetic-binding model protein apoferritin. The two compounds demonstrating highest antagonistic potency were found to bind apoferritin in a manner similar to propofol. Selected compounds did not show antagonism of volatile anesthetics, indicating some selectivity of this antagonism. Similarities in structure and binding to apoferritin as well as a Schild analysis are suggestive of competitive antagonism, but like the anesthetics, the potential mechanism(s) of these antagonists will require further mechanistic investigation.
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- Diana M. Plasencia
- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States of America
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Ekberg V, Samways ML, Misini Ignjatović M, Essex JW, Ryde U. Comparison of Grand Canonical and Conventional Molecular Dynamics Simulation Methods for Protein-Bound Water Networks. ACS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY AU 2022; 2:247-259. [PMID: 35637786 PMCID: PMC9136951 DOI: 10.1021/acsphyschemau.1c00052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2021] [Revised: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Water molecules play
important roles in all biochemical processes.
Therefore, it is of key importance to obtain information of the structure,
dynamics, and thermodynamics of water molecules around proteins. Numerous
computational methods have been suggested with this aim. In this study,
we compare the performance of conventional and grand-canonical Monte
Carlo (GCMC) molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to sample the water
structure, as well GCMC and grid-based inhomogeneous solvation theory
(GIST) to describe the energetics of the water network. They are evaluated
on two proteins: the buried ligand-binding site of a ferritin dimer
and the solvent-exposed binding site of galectin-3. We show that GCMC/MD
simulations significantly speed up the sampling and equilibration
of water molecules in the buried binding site, thereby making the
results more similar for simulations started from different states.
Both GCMC/MD and conventional MD reproduce crystal-water molecules
reasonably for the buried binding site. GIST analyses are normally
based on restrained MD simulations. This improves the precision of
the calculated energies, but the restraints also significantly affect
both absolute and relative energies. Solvation free energies for individual
water molecules calculated with and without restraints show a good
correlation, but with large quantitative differences. Finally, we
note that the solvation free energies calculated with GIST are ∼5
times larger than those estimated by GCMC owing to differences in
the reference state.
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- Vilhelm Ekberg
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, Chemical Centre, P.O. Box 124, Lund SE-221 00, Sweden
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- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, Chemical Centre, P.O. Box 124, Lund SE-221 00, Sweden
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- School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, U.K
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, Chemical Centre, P.O. Box 124, Lund SE-221 00, Sweden
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Ekberg V, Ryde U. On the Use of Interaction Entropy and Related Methods to Estimate Binding Entropies. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:5379-5391. [PMID: 34254810 PMCID: PMC8389774 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Molecular mechanics combined with Poisson-Boltzmann or generalized Born and solvent-accessible area solvation energies (MM/PBSA and MM/GBSA) are popular methods to estimate the free energy for the binding of small molecules to biomacromolecules. However, the estimation of the entropy has been problematic and time-consuming. Traditionally, normal-mode analysis has been used to estimate the entropy, but more recently, alternative approaches have been suggested. In particular, it has been suggested that exponential averaging of the electrostatic and Lennard-Jones interaction energies may provide much faster and more accurate entropies, the interaction entropy (IE) approach. In this study, we show that this exponential averaging is extremely poorly conditioned. Using stochastic simulations, assuming that the interaction energies follow a Gaussian distribution, we show that if the standard deviation of the interaction energies (σIE) is larger than 15 kJ/mol, it becomes practically impossible to converge the interaction entropies (more than 10 million energies are needed, and the number increases exponentially). A cumulant approximation to the second order of the exponential average shows a better convergence, but for σIE > 25 kJ/mol, it gives entropies that are unrealistically large. Moreover, in practical applications, both methods show a steady increase in the entropy with the number of energies considered.
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- Vilhelm Ekberg
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry,
Chemical Centre, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry,
Chemical Centre, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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Wieland DCF, Schroer MA, Gruzinov AY, Blanchet CE, Jeffries CM, Svergun DI. ASAXS measurements on ferritin and apoferritin at the bioSAXS beamline P12 (PETRA III, DESY). J Appl Crystallogr 2021; 54:830-838. [PMID: 34188614 PMCID: PMC8202030 DOI: 10.1107/s1600576721003034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Small-angle X-ray scattering is widely utilized to study biological macromol-ecules in solution. For samples containing specific (e.g. metal) atoms, additional information can be obtained using anomalous scattering. Here, measuring samples at different energies close to the absorption edges of relevant elements provides specific structural details. However, anomalous small-angle X-ray scattering (ASAXS) applications to dilute macromolecular solutions are challenging owing to the overall low anomalous scattering effect. Here, pilot ASAXS experiments from dilute solutions of ferritin and cobalt-loaded apoferritin are reported. These samples were investigated near the resonance X-ray K edges of Fe and Co, respectively, at the EMBL P12 bioSAXS beamline at PETRA III, DESY. Thanks to the high brilliance of the P12 beamline, ASAXS experiments are feasible on dilute protein solutions, allowing one to extract the Fe- or Co-specific anomalous dispersion terms from the ASAXS data. The data were subsequently used to determine the spatial distribution of either iron or cobalt atoms incorporated into the ferritin/apoferritin protein cages.
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- D. C. F. Wieland
- Institute for Materials Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Max-Planck Strasse 1, Geesthacht, 21502, Germany
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg, 22607, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg, 22607, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg, 22607, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg, 22607, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg, 22607, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, Hamburg, 22607, Germany
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Joseph TT, Bu W, Lin W, Zoubak L, Yeliseev A, Liu R, Eckenhoff RG, Brannigan G. Ketamine Metabolite (2 R,6 R)-Hydroxynorketamine Interacts with μ and κ Opioid Receptors. ACS Chem Neurosci 2021; 12:1487-1497. [PMID: 33905229 PMCID: PMC8154314 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Ketamine is an anesthetic,
analgesic, and antidepressant whose
secondary metabolite (2R,6R)-hydroxynorketamine
(HNK) has N-methyl-d-aspartate-receptor-independent
antidepressant activity in a rodent model. In humans, naltrexone attenuates
its antidepressant effect, consistent with opioid pathway involvement.
No detailed biophysical description is available of opioid receptor
binding of ketamine or its metabolites. Using molecular dynamics simulations
with free energy perturbation, we characterize the binding site and
affinities of ketamine and metabolites in μ and κ opioid
receptors, finding a profound effect of the protonation state. G-protein
recruitment assays show that HNK is an inverse agonist, attenuated
by naltrexone, in these receptors with IC50 values congruous
with our simulations. Overall, our findings are consistent with opioid
pathway involvement in ketamine function.
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- Thomas T. Joseph
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, China
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- National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, United States
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- National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey 08102, United States
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White ER, Leace DM, Bedell VM, Bhanu NV, Garcia BA, Dailey WP, Eckenhoff RG. Synthesis and Characterization of a Diazirine-Based Photolabel of the Nonanesthetic Fropofol. ACS Chem Neurosci 2021; 12:176-183. [PMID: 33355437 PMCID: PMC7948515 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The mechanisms of general anesthetics have been debated in the literature for many years and continue to be of great interest. As anesthetic molecules are notoriously difficult to study due to their low binding affinities and multitude of binding partners, it is advantageous to have additional tools to study these interactions. Fropofol is a hydroxyl to fluorine-substituted propofol analogue that is able to antagonize the actions of propofol. Understanding fropofol's ability to antagonize propofol would facilitate further characterization of the binding interactions of propofol that may contribute to its anesthetic actions. However, the study of fropofol's molecular interactions has many of the same difficulties as its parent compound. Here, we present the synthesis and characterization of ortho-azi-fropofol (AziFo) as a suitable photoaffinity label (PAL) of fropofol that can be used to covalently label proteins of interest to characterize fropofol's binding interactions and their contribution to general anesthetic antagonism.
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- E Railey White
- Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Smilow Center for Translational Research, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Smilow Center for Translational Research, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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pH induced reorganization of protein-protein interface in liposome encapsulated Ferritin at air/fluid and fluid/solid interfaces. J Mol Liq 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.113422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Abe M, Suzuki R, Kojima K, Tachibana M. Evaluation of crystal quality of thin protein crystals based on the dynamical theory of X-ray diffraction. IUCRJ 2020; 7:761-766. [PMID: 32695422 PMCID: PMC7340263 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252520007393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Knowledge of X-ray diffraction in macromolecular crystals is important for not only structural analysis of proteins but also diffraction physics. Dynamical diffraction provides evidence of perfect crystals. Until now, clear dynamical diffraction in protein crystals has only been observed in glucose isomerase crystals. We wondered whether there were other protein crystals with high quality that exhibit dynamical diffraction. Here we report the observation of dynamical diffraction in thin ferritin crystals by rocking-curve measurement and imaging techniques such as X-ray topography. It is generally known that in the case of thin crystals it is difficult to distinguish whether dynamical diffraction occurs from only rocking-curve profiles. Therefore, our results clarified that dynamical diffraction occurs in thin protein crystals because fringe contrasts similar to Pendellösung fringes were clearly observed in the X-ray topographic images. For macromolecular crystallography, it is hard to obtain large crystals because they are difficult to crystallize. For thin crystals, dynamical diffraction can be demonstrated by analysis of the equal-thickness fringes observed by X-ray topography.
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- Marina Abe
- Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0027, Japan
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- Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0027, Japan
- Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Education, Yokohama Soei University, 1 Mihocho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-0015, Japan
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- Graduate School of Nanobioscience, Yokohama City University, 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama 236-0027, Japan
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Moreau DW, Atakisi H, Thorne RE. Solvent flows, conformation changes and lattice reordering in a cold protein crystal. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 2019; 75:980-994. [PMID: 31692472 PMCID: PMC6834080 DOI: 10.1107/s2059798319013822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2019] [Accepted: 10/10/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
When protein crystals are abruptly cooled, the unit-cell, protein and solvent-cavity volumes all contract, but the volume of bulk-like internal solvent may expand. Outflow of this solvent from the unit cell and its accumulation in defective interior crystal regions has been suggested as one cause of the large increase in crystal mosaicity on cooling. It is shown that when apoferritin crystals are abruptly cooled to temperatures between 220 and 260 K, the unit cell contracts, solvent is pushed out and the mosaicity grows. On temperature-dependent timescales of 10 to 200 s, the unit-cell and solvent-cavity volume then expand, solvent flows back in, and the mosaicity and B factor both drop. Expansion and reordering at fixed low temperature are associated with small-amplitude but large-scale changes in the conformation and packing of apoferritin. These results demonstrate that increases in mosaicity on cooling arise due to solvent flows out of or into the unit cell and to incomplete, arrested relaxation of protein conformation. They indicate a critical role for time in variable-temperature crystallographic studies, and the feasibility of probing interactions and cooperative conformational changes that underlie cold denaturation in the presence of liquid solvent at temperatures down to ∼200 K.
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- David W. Moreau
- Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Pfeil-Gardiner O, Mills DJ, Vonck J, Kuehlbrandt W. A comparative study of single-particle cryo-EM with liquid-nitrogen and liquid-helium cooling. IUCRJ 2019; 6:1099-1105. [PMID: 31709065 PMCID: PMC6830223 DOI: 10.1107/s2052252519011503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2019] [Accepted: 08/16/2019] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Radiation damage is the most fundamental limitation for achieving high resolution in electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) of biological samples. The effects of radiation damage are reduced by liquid-helium cooling, although the use of liquid helium is more challenging than that of liquid nitrogen. To date, the benefits of liquid-nitrogen and liquid-helium cooling for single-particle cryo-EM have not been compared quantitatively. With recent technical and computational advances in cryo-EM image recording and processing, such a comparison now seems timely. This study aims to evaluate the relative merits of liquid-helium cooling in present-day single-particle analysis, taking advantage of direct electron detectors. Two data sets for recombinant mouse heavy-chain apoferritin cooled with liquid-nitrogen or liquid-helium to 85 or 17 K were collected, processed and compared. No improvement in terms of resolution or Coulomb potential map quality was found for liquid-helium cooling. Interestingly, beam-induced motion was found to be significantly higher with liquid-helium cooling, especially within the most valuable first few frames of an exposure, thus counteracting any potential benefit of better cryoprotection that liquid-helium cooling may offer for single-particle cryo-EM.
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- Olivia Pfeil-Gardiner
- Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Max-von-Laue-Strasse 3, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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Künzle M, Eckert T, Beck T. Metal-Assisted Assembly of Protein Containers Loaded with Inorganic Nanoparticles. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:13431-13436. [PMID: 30351078 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Protein containers are suitable building blocks for bioinorganic materials. Here, we show that high concentrations of magnesium ions induce the formation of a unitary protein scaffold, whereas low magnesium concentration leads to a binary protein scaffold. The molecular interactions in the protein scaffold were characterized with X-ray crystallography to high resolution. We show that the unitary framework can be applied for the assembly of inorganic nanoparticles such as metal oxides into highly ordered bioinorganic structures. Our work emphasizes the structural tunability of protein-container-based materials, important for adjusting emerging properties of such materials.
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- Matthias Künzle
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry , RWTH Aachen University , 52074 Aachen , Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry , RWTH Aachen University , 52074 Aachen , Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry , RWTH Aachen University , 52074 Aachen , Germany.,I3TM , RWTH Aachen University , 52074 Aachen , Germany.,JARA SOFT and JARA FIT , RWTH Aachen University , 52074 Aachen , Germany
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Jorgensen C, Domene C. Location and Character of Volatile General Anesthetics Binding Sites in the Transmembrane Domain of TRPV1. Mol Pharm 2018; 15:3920-3930. [PMID: 30067911 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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It has been proposed that general anesthesia results from direct multisite interactions with multiple and diverse ion channels in the brain. An understanding of the mechanisms by which general anesthetics modulate ion channels is essential to clarify their underlying behavior and their role in reversible immobilization and amnesia. Despite the fact that volatile general anesthetics are drugs that primarily induce insensitivity to pain, they have been reported to sensitize and active the vanilloid-1 receptor, TRPV1, which is known to mediate the response of the nervous system to certain harmful stimuli and which plays a crucial role in the pain pathway. Currently, the mechanism of action of anesthetics is unknown and the precise molecular sites of interaction have not been identified. Here, using ∼2.5 μs of classical molecular dynamics simulations and metadynamics, we explore these enigmas. Binding sites are identified and the strength of the association is further characterized using alchemical free-energy calculations. Anesthetic binding/unbinding proceeds primarily through a membrane-embedded pathway, and subsequently, a complex scenario is established involving multiple binding sites featuring single or multiple occupancy states of two small volatile drugs. One of the five anesthetic binding sites reported was previously identified experimentally, and another one, importantly, is identical to that of capsaicin, one of the chemical stimuli that activate TRPV1. However, in contrast to capsaicin, isoflurane and chloroform binding free-energies render modest to no association compared to capsaicin, suggesting a different activation mechanism. Uncovering chloroform and isoflurane modulatory sites will further our understanding of the TRPV1 molecular machinery and open the possibility of developing site-specific drugs.
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- Christian Jorgensen
- Department of Chemistry , King's College London , Britannia House, 7 Trinity Street , London SE1 1DB , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , King's College London , Britannia House, 7 Trinity Street , London SE1 1DB , U.K.,Department of Chemistry , University of Bath , 1 South Building, Claverton Down , Bath BA2 7AY , U.K.,Chemistry Research Laboratory , University of Oxford , Mansfield Road , Oxford OX1 3TA , U.K
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Abstract
What We Already Know about This Topic
What This Article Tells Us That Is New
Background
Xenon is an elemental anesthetic with nine stable isotopes. Nuclear spin is a quantum property which may differ among isotopes. Xenon 131 (131Xe) has nuclear spin of 3/2, xenon 129 (129Xe) a nuclear spin of 1/2, and the other seven isotopes have no nuclear spin. This study was aimed to explore the effect of nuclear spin on xenon anesthetic potency.
Methods
Eighty C57BL/6 male mice (7 weeks old) were randomly divided into four groups, xenon 132 (132Xe), xenon 134 (134Xe), 131Xe, and 129Xe groups. Due to xenon’s low potency, loss of righting reflex ED50 for mice to xenon was determined with 0.50% isoflurane. Loss of righting reflex ED50 of isoflurane was also measured, and the loss of righting reflex ED50 values of the four xenon isotopes were then calculated. The exact polarizabilities of the isotopes were calculated.
Results
Combined with 0.50% isoflurane, the loss of righting reflex ED50 values were 15 ± 4%, 16 ± 5%, 22 ± 5%, and 23 ± 7% for 132Xe, 134Xe, 131Xe, and 129Xe, respectively. For xenon alone, the loss of righting reflex ED50 values of 132Xe, 134Xe, 131Xe, and 129Xe were 70 ± 4%, 72 ± 5%, 99 ± 5%, and 105 ± 7%, respectively. Four isotopes had a same exact polarizability of 3.60 Å3.
Conclusions
Xenon isotopes with nuclear spin are less potent than those without, and polarizability cannot account for the difference. The lower anesthetic potency of 129Xe may be the result of it participating in conscious processing and therefore partially antagonizing its own anesthetic potency. Nuclear spin is a quantum property, and our results are consistent with theories that implicate quantum mechanisms in consciousness.
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Fahrenbach VS, Bertaccini EJ. Insights Into Receptor-Based Anesthetic Pharmacophores and Anesthetic-Protein Interactions. Methods Enzymol 2018; 602:77-95. [PMID: 29588042 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2018.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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General anesthetics are thought to allosterically bind and potentiate the inhibitory currents of the GABAA receptor through drug-specific binding sites. The physiologically relevant isoform of the GABAA receptor is a transmembrane ligand-gated ion channel consisting of five subunits (γ-α-β-α-β linkage) symmetrically arranged around a central chloride-conducting pore. Although the exact molecular structure of this heteropentameric GABAA receptor remains unknown, molecular modeling has allowed significant advancements in understanding anesthetic binding and action. Using the open-channel conformations of the homologous glycine and glutamate-gated chloride receptors as templates, a homology model of the GABAA receptor was constructed using the Discovery Studio computational chemistry software suite. Consensus structural alignment of the homology templates allowed for the construction of a three-dimensional heteropentameric GABAA receptor model with (γ2-β3-α1-β3-α1) subunit linkage. An anesthetic binding site was identified within the transmembrane α/β intersubunit space by the convergence of three residues shown to be essential for anesthetic activity in previous studies with mutant mice (β3-N265, β3-M286, α1-L232). Propofol derivatives docked into this binding site showed log-linear correlation with experimentally derived GABAA receptor potentiation (EC50) values, suggesting this binding site may be important for receptor activation. The receptor-based pharmacophore was analyzed with surface maps displaying the predominant anesthetic-protein interactions, revealing an amphiphilic binding cavity incorporating the three residues involved in anesthetic modulation. Quantum mechanics calculations of the bonding patterns found in complementary high-resolution receptor systems further elucidated the complex nature of anesthetic-protein interactions.
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- Victoria S Fahrenbach
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States; Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, United States.
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Anesthetics interact with a broad range of different targets, including both soluble and membrane-bound proteins. Understanding these interactions at the molecular level requires detailed structural knowledge of anesthetic-protein complexes, and one of the most productive routes to such knowledge is X-ray crystallography. In this chapter we discuss the application of this technique to the analysis of complexes of anesthetics with soluble proteins. The model protein apoferritin is highlighted, and protocols are presented for obtaining diffraction-quality crystals of this protein in complex with different general anesthetics.
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Anesthetic drug molecules are being increasingly studied through the use of computational methods such as molecular dynamics (MD). Molecular mechanics force fields require the investigator to supply parameters for the force field equation, which are not available for novel molecules. Careful selection of these parameters is critical for simulations to produce meaningful results. Therefore, this chapter presents a state-of-the-art method for determining these parameters by comparison to quantum mechanics calculations and experimental quantities. Ketamine is used as an example to demonstrate the process.
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Misini Ignjatović M, Mikulskis P, Söderhjelm P, Ryde U. Can MM/GBSA calculations be sped up by system truncation? J Comput Chem 2017; 39:361-372. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Revised: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 11/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Majda Misini Ignjatović
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry; Lund University, Chemical Centre, P. O. Box 124; Lund SE-221 00 Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry; Lund University, Chemical Centre, P. O. Box 124; Lund SE-221 00 Sweden
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- Department of Biophysical Chemistry; Lund University, Chemical Centre, P. O. Box 124; Lund SE-221 00 Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry; Lund University, Chemical Centre, P. O. Box 124; Lund SE-221 00 Sweden
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Woll KA, Dailey WP, Brannigan G, Eckenhoff RG. Shedding Light on Anesthetic Mechanisms: Application of Photoaffinity Ligands. Anesth Analg 2017; 123:1253-1262. [PMID: 27464974 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000001365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Anesthetic photoaffinity ligands have had an increasing presence within anesthesiology research. These ligands mimic parent general anesthetics and allow investigators to study anesthetic interactions with receptors and enzymes; identify novel targets; and determine distribution within biological systems. To date, nearly all general anesthetics used in medicine have a corresponding photoaffinity ligand represented in the literature. In this review, we examine all aspects of the current methodologies, including ligand design, characterization, and deployment. Finally we offer points of consideration and highlight the future outlook as more photoaffinity ligands emerge within the field.
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- Kellie A Woll
- From the Departments of *Anesthesiology and Critical Care and †Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; ‡Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and §Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
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Qiu L, Lin J, Liu Q, Wang S, Lv G, Li K, Shi H, Huang Z, Bertaccini EJ. The Role of the Hydroxyl Group in Propofol-Protein Target Recognition: Insights from ONIOM Studies. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:5883-5896. [PMID: 28548837 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b02079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Propofol (PFL, 1-hydroxyl-2,6-diisopropylbenzene) is currently used widely as one of the most well-known intravenous anesthetics to relieve surgical suffering, but its mechanism of action is not yet clear. Previous experimental studies have demonstrated that the hydroxyl group of PFL plays a dominant role in the molecular recognition of PFL with receptors that lead to hypnosis. To further explore the mechanism of anesthesia induced by PFL in the present work, the exact binding features and interaction details of PFL with three important proteins, human serum albumin (HSA), the pH-gated ion channel from Gloeobacter violaceus (GLIC), and horse spleen apoferritin (HSAF), were investigated systematically by using a rigorous three-layer ONIOM (M06-2X/6-31+G*:PM6:AMBER) method. Additionally, to further characterize the possible importance of such hydroxyl interactions, a similar set of calculations was carried out on the anesthetically inactive fropofol (FFL, 1-fluoro-2,6-diisopropylbenzene) in which the fluorine was substituted for the hydroxyl. According to the ONIOM calculations, atoms in molecules (AIM) analyses, and electrostatic potential (ESP) analyses, the significance of hydrogen bond, halogen bond, and hydrophobic interactions in promoting proper molecular recognition was revealed. The binding interaction energies of PFL with different proteins were generally larger than FFL and are a significant determinant of their differential anesthetic efficacies. Interestingly, although the hydrogen-bonding effect of the hydroxyl moiety was prominent in propofol, the substitution of the 1-hydroxyl by a fluorine atom did not prevent FFL from binding to the protein via a halogen-bonding interaction. It therefore became clear that multiple specific interactions rather than just hydrogen or halogen bonds must be taken into account to explain the different anesthesia endpoints caused by PFL and FFL. The contributions of key residues in ligand-receptor binding were also quantified, and the calculated results agreed with many available experimental observations. This work will provide complementary insights into the molecular mechanisms of anesthetic action for PFL from a robust theoretical point of view. This will not only assist in interpreting experimental observations but will also help to develop working hypotheses for further experiments and future drug design.
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- Ling Qiu
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health, & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China.,Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine , 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health, & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health, & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health, & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health, & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health, & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health, & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health, & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China
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- Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine , 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California 94305, United States.,Palo Alto VA Health Care System, 112A, PAVAHCS , 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304, United States
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Woll KA, Peng W, Liang Q, Zhi L, Jacobs JA, Maciunas L, Bhanu N, Garcia BA, Covarrubias M, Loll PJ, Dailey WP, Eckenhoff RG. Photoaffinity Ligand for the Inhalational Anesthetic Sevoflurane Allows Mechanistic Insight into Potassium Channel Modulation. ACS Chem Biol 2017; 12:1353-1362. [PMID: 28333442 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Sevoflurane is a commonly used inhaled general anesthetic. Despite this, its mechanism of action remains largely elusive. Compared to other anesthetics, sevoflurane exhibits distinct functional activity. In particular, sevoflurane is a positive modulator of voltage-gated Shaker-related potassium channels (Kv1.x), which are key regulators of action potentials. Here, we report the synthesis and validation of azisevoflurane, a photoaffinity ligand for the direct identification of sevoflurane binding sites in the Kv1.2 channel. Azisevoflurane retains major sevoflurane protein binding interactions and pharmacological properties within in vivo models. Photoactivation of azisevoflurane induces adduction to amino acid residues that accurately reported sevoflurane protein binding sites in model proteins. Pharmacologically relevant concentrations of azisevoflurane analogously potentiated wild-type Kv1.2 and the established mutant Kv1.2 G329T. In wild-type Kv1.2 channels, azisevoflurane photolabeled Leu317 within the internal S4-S5 linker, a vital helix that couples the voltage sensor to the pore region. A residue lining the same binding cavity was photolabeled by azisevoflurane and protected by sevoflurane in the Kv1.2 G329T. Mutagenesis of Leu317 in WT Kv1.2 abolished sevoflurane voltage-dependent positive modulation. Azisevoflurane additionally photolabeled a second distinct site at Thr384 near the external selectivity filter in the Kv1.2 G329T mutant. The identified sevoflurane binding sites are located in critical regions involved in gating of Kv channels and related ion channels. Azisevoflurane has thus emerged as a new tool to discover inhaled anesthetic targets and binding sites and investigate contributions of these targets to general anesthesia.
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- Kellie A. Woll
- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Department
of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience and Vickie and
Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 900 Walnut Street, JHN 417, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience and Vickie and
Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 900 Walnut Street, JHN 417, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States
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- Department
of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129, United States
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- Epigenetics Program,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center, Building 421, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Epigenetics Program,
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center, Building 421, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Neuroscience and Vickie and
Jack Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 900 Walnut Street, JHN 417, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States
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- Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19129, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Sites and Functional Consequence of Alkylphenol Anesthetic Binding to Kv1.2 Channels. Mol Neurobiol 2017; 55:1692-1702. [PMID: 28204960 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-017-0437-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 02/03/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Inhalational general anesthetics, such as sevoflurane and isoflurane, modulate a subset of brain Kv1 potassium channels. However, the Kv1.2 channel is resistant to propofol, a commonly used intravenous alkylphenol anesthetic. We hypothesize that propofol binds to a presumed pocket involving the channel's S4-S5 linker, but functional transduction is poor and, therefore, propofol efficacy is low. To test this hypothesis, we used a photoactive propofol analog (meta-aziPropofol = AziPm) to directly probe binding and electrophysiological and mutational analyses in Xenopus oocytes to probe function. We find that AziPm photolabels L321 in the S4-S5 linker of both the wild-type Kv1.2 and a mutant Kv1.2 (G329 T) with a novel gating phenotype. Furthermore, whereas propofol does not significantly modulate Kv1.2 WT but robustly potentiates Kv1.2 G329T, AziPm inhibits Kv1.2 WT and also potentiates Kv1.2 G329T. Kv1.2 modulation by AziPm was abolished by two mutations that decreased hydrophobicity at L321 (L321A and L321F), confirming the specific significance of the S4-S5 linker in the mechanism of general anesthetic modulation. Since AziPm binds to Kv1.2 G329T and shares the propofol ability to potentiate this mutant, the parent propofol likely also binds to the Kv1.2 channel. However, binding and alkylphenol-induced transduction are seemingly sensitive to the conformation of the S4-S5 linker site (altered by G329T) and subtle differences in the chemical structures of propofol and AziPm. Overall, the results are consistent with a mechanism of general anesthetic modulation that depends on the complementarity of necessary ligand binding and permissive ion channel conformations that dictate modulation and efficacy.
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Ashton L, Brewster VL, Correa E, Goodacre R. Detection of glycosylation and iron-binding protein modifications using Raman spectroscopy. Analyst 2017; 142:808-814. [DOI: 10.1039/c6an02516a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We have used Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics to determine protein modification as a result of glycosylation and iron binding.
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- Lorna Ashton
- School of Chemistry
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
- University of Manchester
- Manchester
- UK
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- School of Chemistry
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
- University of Manchester
- Manchester
- UK
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- School of Chemistry
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
- University of Manchester
- Manchester
- UK
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- School of Chemistry
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
- University of Manchester
- Manchester
- UK
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Woll KA, Murlidaran S, Pinch BJ, Hénin J, Wang X, Salari R, Covarrubias M, Dailey WP, Brannigan G, Garcia BA, Eckenhoff RG. A Novel Bifunctional Alkylphenol Anesthetic Allows Characterization of γ-Aminobutyric Acid, Type A (GABAA), Receptor Subunit Binding Selectivity in Synaptosomes. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:20473-86. [PMID: 27462076 PMCID: PMC5034043 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.736975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2016] [Revised: 07/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Propofol, an intravenous anesthetic, is a positive modulator of the GABAA receptor, but the mechanistic details, including the relevant binding sites and alternative targets, remain disputed. Here we undertook an in-depth study of alkylphenol-based anesthetic binding to synaptic membranes. We designed, synthesized, and characterized a chemically active alkylphenol anesthetic (2-((prop-2-yn-1-yloxy)methyl)-5-(3-(trifluoromethyl)-3H-diazirin-3-yl)phenol, AziPm-click (1)), for affinity-based protein profiling (ABPP) of propofol-binding proteins in their native state within mouse synaptosomes. The ABPP strategy captured ∼4% of the synaptosomal proteome, including the unbiased capture of five α or β GABAA receptor subunits. Lack of γ2 subunit capture was not due to low abundance. Consistent with this, independent molecular dynamics simulations with alchemical free energy perturbation calculations predicted selective propofol binding to interfacial sites, with higher affinities for α/β than γ-containing interfaces. The simulations indicated hydrogen bonding is a key component leading to propofol-selective binding within GABAA receptor subunit interfaces, with stable hydrogen bonds observed between propofol and α/β cavity residues but not γ cavity residues. We confirmed this by introducing a hydrogen bond-null propofol analogue as a protecting ligand for targeted-ABPP and observed a lack of GABAA receptor subunit protection. This investigation demonstrates striking interfacial GABAA receptor subunit selectivity in the native milieu, suggesting that asymmetric occupancy of heteropentameric ion channels by alkylphenol-based anesthetics is sufficient to induce modulation of activity.
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- Kellie A Woll
- From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Pharmacology and
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- the Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- the Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, CNRS UMR 8251 and Université Paris Diderot, 5013 Paris, France, and
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- the Epigenetics Program, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey 08102
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- the Department of Neuroscience and Farber Institute for Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
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- the Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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- the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology and Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey 08102
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- the Epigenetics Program, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Qiu L, Lin J, Bertaccini EJ. Insights into the Nature of Anesthetic-Protein Interactions: An ONIOM Study. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:12771-82. [PMID: 26388288 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b05897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Anesthetics have been employed widely to relieve surgical suffering, but their mechanism of action is not yet clear. For over a century, the mechanism of anesthesia was previously thought to be via lipid bilayer interactions. In the present work, a rigorous three-layer ONIOM(M06-2X/6-31+G*:PM6:AMBER) method was utilized to investigate the nature of interactions between several anesthetics and actual protein binding sites. According to the calculated structural features, interaction energies, atomic charges, and electrostatic potential surfaces, the amphiphilic nature of anesthetic-protein interactions was demonstrated for both inhalational and injectable anesthetics. The existence of hydrogen and halogen bonding interactions between anesthetics and proteins was clearly identified, and these interactions served to assist ligand recognition and binding by the protein. Within all complexes of inhalational or injectable anesthetics, the polarization effects play a dominant role over the steric effects and induce a significant asymmetry in the otherwise symmetric atomic charge distributions of the free ligands in vacuo. This study provides new insight into the mechanism of action of general anesthetics in a more rigorous way than previously described. Future rational design of safer anesthetics for an aging and more physiologically vulnerable population will be predicated on this greater understanding of such specific interactions.
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- Ling Qiu
- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China.,Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto VA Health Care System , 112A, PAVAHCS, 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Ministry of Health & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Molecular Nuclear Medicine, Jiangsu Institute of Nuclear Medicine , Wuxi 214063, P. R. China
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- Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto VA Health Care System , 112A, PAVAHCS, 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, California 94304, United States
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Woll KA, Weiser BP, Liang Q, Meng T, McKinstry-Wu A, Pinch B, Dailey WP, Gao WD, Covarrubias M, Eckenhoff RG. Role for the propofol hydroxyl in anesthetic protein target molecular recognition. ACS Chem Neurosci 2015; 6:927-35. [PMID: 25799399 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.5b00078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Propofol is a widely used intravenous general anesthetic. We synthesized 2-fluoro-1,3-diisopropylbenzene, a compound that we call "fropofol", to directly assess the significance of the propofol 1-hydroxyl for pharmacologically relevant molecular recognition in vitro and for anesthetic efficacy in vivo. Compared to propofol, fropofol had a similar molecular volume and only a small increase in hydrophobicity. Isothermal titration calorimetry and competition assays revealed that fropofol had higher affinity for a protein site governed largely by van der Waals interactions. Within another protein model containing hydrogen bond interactions, propofol demonstrated higher affinity. In vivo, fropofol demonstrated no anesthetic efficacy, but at high concentrations produced excitatory activity in tadpoles and mice; fropofol also antagonized propofol-induced hypnosis. In a propofol protein target that contributes to hypnosis, α1β2γ2L GABAA receptors, fropofol demonstrated no significant effect alone or on propofol positive allosteric modulation of the ion channel, suggesting an additional requirement for the 1-hydroxyl within synaptic GABAA receptor site(s). However, fropofol caused similar adverse cardiovascular effects as propofol by a dose-dependent depression of myocardial contractility. Our results directly implicate the propofol 1-hydroxyl as contributing to molecular recognition within protein targets leading to hypnosis, but not necessarily within protein targets leading to side effects of the drug.
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- Department
of Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 900 Walnut Street, JHN 417, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, 107 Wenhua Xi Road, Jinan, 250012 P. R. China
- Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology
and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, United States
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- Department
of Neuroscience, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 900 Walnut Street, JHN 417, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, United States
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BACKGROUND The development of novel anesthetics has historically been a process of combined serendipity and empiricism, with most recent new anesthetics developed via modification of existing anesthetic structures. METHODS Using a novel high-throughput screen employing the fluorescent anesthetic 1-aminoanthracene and apoferritin as a surrogate for on-pathway anesthetic protein target(s), we screened a 350,000 compound library for competition with 1-aminoanthracene-apoferritin binding. Hit compounds meeting structural criteria had their binding affinities for apoferritin quantified with isothermal titration calorimetry and were tested for γ-aminobutyric acid type A receptor binding using a flunitrazepam binding assay. Chemotypes with a strong presence in the top 700 and exhibiting activity via isothermal titration calorimetry were selected for medicinal chemistry optimization including testing for anesthetic potency and toxicity in an in vivo Xenopus laevis tadpole assay. Compounds with low toxicity and high potency were tested for anesthetic potency in mice. RESULTS From an initial chemical library of more than 350,000 compounds, we identified 2,600 compounds that potently inhibited 1-aminoanthracene binding to apoferritin. A subset of compounds chosen by structural criteria (700) was successfully reconfirmed using the initial assay. Based on a strong presence in both the initial and secondary screens the 6-phenylpyridazin-3(2H)-one chemotype was assessed for anesthetic activity in tadpoles. Medicinal chemistry efforts identified four compounds with high potency and low toxicity in tadpoles, two were found to be effective novel anesthetics in mice. CONCLUSION The authors demonstrate the first use of a high-throughput screen to successfully identify a novel anesthetic chemotype and show mammalian anesthetic activity for members of that chemotype.
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Crystallographic Studies with Xenon and Nitrous Oxide Provide Evidence for Protein-dependent Processes in the Mechanisms of General Anesthesia. Anesthesiology 2014; 121:1018-27. [DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000000435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The mechanisms by which general anesthetics, including xenon and nitrous oxide, act are only beginning to be discovered. However, structural approaches revealed weak but specific protein–gas interactions.
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To improve knowledge, we performed x-ray crystallography studies under xenon and nitrous oxide pressure in a series of 10 binding sites within four proteins.
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Whatever the pressure, we show (1) hydrophobicity of the gas binding sites has a screening effect on xenon and nitrous oxide binding, with a threshold value of 83% beyond which and below which xenon and nitrous oxide, respectively, binds to their sites preferentially compared to each other; (2) xenon and nitrous oxide occupancies are significantly correlated respectively to the product and the ratio of hydrophobicity by volume, indicating that hydrophobicity and volume are binding parameters that complement and oppose each other’s effects; and (3) the ratio of occupancy of xenon to nitrous oxide is significantly correlated to hydrophobicity of their binding sites.
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These data demonstrate that xenon and nitrous oxide obey different binding mechanisms, a finding that argues against all unitary hypotheses of narcosis and anesthesia, and indicate that the Meyer–Overton rule of a high correlation between anesthetic potency and solubility in lipids of general anesthetics is often overinterpreted. This study provides evidence that the mechanisms of gas binding to proteins and therefore of general anesthesia should be considered as the result of a fully reversible interaction between a drug ligand and a receptor as this occurs in classical pharmacology.
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Mikulskis P, Genheden S, Ryde U. A large-scale test of free-energy simulation estimates of protein-ligand binding affinities. J Chem Inf Model 2014; 54:2794-806. [PMID: 25264937 DOI: 10.1021/ci5004027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We have performed a large-scale test of alchemical perturbation calculations with the Bennett acceptance-ratio (BAR) approach to estimate relative affinities for the binding of 107 ligands to 10 different proteins. Employing 20-Å truncated spherical systems and only one intermediate state in the perturbations, we obtain an error of less than 4 kJ/mol for 54% of the studied relative affinities and a precision of 0.5 kJ/mol on average. However, only four of the proteins gave acceptable errors, correlations, and rankings. The results could be improved by using nine intermediate states in the simulations or including the entire protein in the simulations using periodic boundary conditions. However, 27 of the calculated affinities still gave errors of more than 4 kJ/mol, and for three of the proteins the results were not satisfactory. This shows that the performance of BAR calculations depends on the target protein and that several transformations gave poor results owing to limitations in the molecular-mechanics force field or the restricted sampling possible within a reasonable simulation time. Still, the BAR results are better than docking calculations for most of the proteins.
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- Paulius Mikulskis
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, Chemical Centre , P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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Mikulskis P, Genheden S, Ryde U. Effect of explicit water molecules on ligand-binding affinities calculated with the MM/GBSA approach. J Mol Model 2014; 20:2273. [DOI: 10.1007/s00894-014-2273-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2013] [Accepted: 04/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Assessment of homology templates and an anesthetic binding site within the γ-aminobutyric acid receptor. Anesthesiology 2013; 119:1087-95. [PMID: 23770602 DOI: 10.1097/aln.0b013e31829e47e3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Anesthetics mediate portions of their activity via modulation of the γ-aminobutyric acid receptor (GABAaR). Although its molecular structure remains unknown, significant progress has been made toward understanding its interactions with anesthetics via molecular modeling. METHODS The structure of the torpedo acetylcholine receptor (nAChRα), the structures of the α4 and β2 subunits of the human nAChR, the structures of the eukaryotic glutamate-gated chloride channel (GluCl), and the prokaryotic pH-sensing channels, from Gloeobacter violaceus and Erwinia chrysanthemi, were aligned with the SAlign and 3DMA algorithms. A multiple sequence alignment from these structures and those of the GABAaR was performed with ClustalW. The Modeler and Rosetta algorithms independently created three-dimensional constructs of the GABAaR from the GluCl template. The CDocker algorithm docked a congeneric series of propofol derivatives into the binding pocket and scored calculated binding affinities for correlation with known GABAaR potentiation EC50s. RESULTS Multiple structure alignments of templates revealed a clear consensus of residue locations relevant to anesthetic effects except for torpedo nAChR. Within the GABAaR models generated from GluCl, the residues notable for modulating anesthetic action within transmembrane segments 1, 2, and 3 converged on the intersubunit interface between α and β subunits. Docking scores of a propofol derivative series into this binding site showed strong linear correlation with GABAaR potentiation EC50. CONCLUSION Consensus structural alignment based on homologous templates revealed an intersubunit anesthetic binding cavity within the transmembrane domain of the GABAaR, which showed a correlation of ligand docking scores with experimentally measured GABAaR potentiation.
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Xu L, Matsunaga F, Xi J, Li M, Ma J, Liu R. n-Dodecyl β-D-maltoside specifically competes with general anesthetics for anesthetic binding sites. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2013; 32:1833-40. [PMID: 24063524 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2013.838699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We recently demonstrated that the anionic detergent sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) specifically interacts with the anesthetic binding site in horse spleen apoferritin, a soluble protein which models anesthetic binding sites in receptors. This raises the possibility of other detergents similarly interacting with and occluding such sites from anesthetics, thereby preventing the proper identification of novel anesthetic binding sites. n-Dodecyl β-D-maltoside (DDM) is a non-ionic detergent commonly used during protein-anesthetic studies because of its mild and non-denaturing properties. In this study, we demonstrate that SDS and DDM occupy anesthetic binding sites in the model proteins human serum albumin (HSA) and horse spleen apoferritin and thereby inhibit the binding of the general anesthetics propofol and isoflurane. DDM specifically interacts with HSA (Kd = 40 μM) with a lower affinity than SDS (Kd = 2 μM). DDM exerts all these effects while not perturbing the native structures of either model protein. Computational calculations corroborated the experimental results by demonstrating that the binding sites for DDM and both anesthetics on the model proteins overlapped. Collectively, our results indicate that DDM and SDS specifically interact with anesthetic binding sites and may thus prevent the identification of novel anesthetic sites. Special precaution should be taken when undertaking and interpreting results from protein-anesthetic investigations utilizing detergents like SDS and DDM.
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- Longhe Xu
- a Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care , Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania , 336 John Morgan Building, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia , PA , USA
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Yuki K, Bu W, Xi J, Shimaoka M, Eckenhoff R. Propofol shares the binding site with isoflurane and sevoflurane on leukocyte function-associated antigen-1. Anesth Analg 2013; 117:803-811. [PMID: 23960033 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3182a00ae0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND We previously demonstrated that propofol interacted with the leukocyte adhesion molecule leukocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1) and inhibited the production of interleukin-2 via LFA-1 in a dependent manner. However, the binding site(s) of propofol on LFA-1 remains unknown. METHODS First, the inhibition of LFA-1's ligand binding by propofol was confirmed in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) ELISA-type assay. The binding site of propofol on LFA-1 was probed with a photolabeling experiment using a photoactivatable propofol analog called azi-propofol-m. The adducted residues of LFA-1 by this compound were determined using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. In addition, the binding of propofol to the ligand-binding domain of LFA-1 was examined using 1-aminoanthracene (1-AMA) displacement assay. Furthermore, the binding site(s) of 1-AMA and propofol on LFA-1 was studied using the docking program GLIDE. RESULTS We demonstrated that propofol impaired the binding of LFA-1 to its ligand intercellular adhesion molecule-1. The photolabeling experiment demonstrated that the adducted residues were localized in the allosteric cavity of the ligand-binding domain of LFA-1 called "lovastatin site." The shift of fluorescence spectra was observed when 1-AMA was coincubated with the low-affinity conformer of LFA-1 ligand-binding domain (wild-type [WT] αL I domain), not with the high-affinity conformer, suggesting that 1-AMA bound only to WT αL I domain. In the 1-AMA displacement assay, propofol decreased 1-AMA fluorescence signal (at 520 nm), suggesting that propofol competed with 1-AMA and bound to the WT αL I domain. The docking simulation demonstrated that both 1-AMA and propofol bound to the lovastatin site, which agreed with the photolabeling experiment. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated that propofol bound to the lovastatin site in LFA-1. Previously we showed that the volatile anesthetics isoflurane and sevoflurane bound to this site. Taken together, the lovastatin site is an example of the common binding sites for anesthetics currently used clinically.
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- Koichi Yuki
- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115.
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Emerson DJ, Weiser BP, Psonis J, Liao Z, Taratula O, Fiamengo A, Wang X, Sugasawa K, Smith AB, Eckenhoff RG, Dmochowski IJ. Direct modulation of microtubule stability contributes to anthracene general anesthesia. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:5389-98. [PMID: 23484901 DOI: 10.1021/ja311171u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Recently, we identified 1-aminoanthracene as a fluorescent general anesthetic. To investigate the mechanism of action, a photoactive analogue, 1-azidoanthracene, was synthesized. Administration of 1-azidoanthracene to albino stage 40-47 tadpoles was found to immobilize animals upon near-UV irradiation of the forebrain region. The immobilization was often reversible, but it was characterized by a longer duration consistent with covalent attachment of the ligand to functionally important targets. IEF/SDS-PAGE examination of irradiated tadpole brain homogenate revealed labeled protein, identified by mass spectrometry as β-tubulin. In vitro assays with aminoanthracene-cross-linked tubulin indicated inhibition of microtubule polymerization, similar to colchicine. Tandem mass spectrometry confirmed anthracene binding near the colchicine site. Stage 40-47 tadpoles were also incubated 1 h with microtubule stabilizing agents, epothilone D or discodermolide, followed by dosing with 1-aminoanthracene. The effective concentration of 1-aminoanthracene required to immobilize the tadpoles was significantly increased in the presence of either microtubule stabilizing agent. Epothilone D similarly mitigated the effects of a clinical neurosteroid general anesthetic, allopregnanolone, believed to occupy the colchicine site in tubulin. We conclude that neuronal microtubules are "on-pathway" targets for anthracene general anesthetics and may also represent functional targets for some neurosteroid general anesthetics.
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- Daniel J Emerson
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Chitilian HV, Eckenhoff RG, Raines DE. Anesthetic drug development: Novel drugs and new approaches. Surg Neurol Int 2013; 4:S2-S10. [PMID: 23653886 PMCID: PMC3642742 DOI: 10.4103/2152-7806.109179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2012] [Accepted: 08/08/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The ideal sedative–hypnotic drug would be a rapidly titratable intravenous agent with a high therapeutic index and minimal side effects. The current efforts to develop such agents are primarily focused on modifying the structures of existing drugs to improve their pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic properties. Drugs currently under development using this rational design approach include analogues of midazolam, propofol, and etomidate, such as remimazolam, PF0713, and cyclopropyl methoxycarbonyl-etomidate (MOC-etomidate), respectively. An alternative approach involves the rapid screening of large libraries of molecules for activity in structural or phenotypic assays that approximate anesthetic and target receptor interactions. Such high-throughput screening offers the potential for identifying completely novel classes of drugs. Anesthetic drug development is experiencing a resurgence of interest because there are new demands on our clinical practice that can be met, at least in part, with better agents. The goal of this review is to provide the reader with a glimpse of the novel anesthetic drugs and new developmental approaches that lie on the horizon.
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- Hovig V Chitilian
- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Barber AF, Liang Q, Covarrubias M. Novel activation of voltage-gated K(+) channels by sevoflurane. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:40425-32. [PMID: 23038249 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m112.405787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Halogenated inhaled anesthetics modulate voltage-gated ion channels by unknown mechanisms. RESULTS Biophysical analyses revealed novel activation of K(v) channels by the inhaled anesthetic sevoflurane. CONCLUSION K(v) channel activation by sevoflurane results from the positive allosteric modulation of activation gating. SIGNIFICANCE The unique activation of K(v) channels by sevoflurane demonstrates novel anesthetic specificity and offers new insights into allosteric modulation of channel gating. Voltage-gated ion channels are modulated by halogenated inhaled general anesthetics, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are not understood. Alkanols and halogenated inhaled anesthetics such as halothane and isoflurane inhibit the archetypical voltage-gated Kv3 channel homolog K-Shaw2 by stabilizing the resting/closed states. By contrast, sevoflurane, a more heavily fluorinated ether commonly used in general anesthesia, specifically activates K-Shaw2 currents at relevant concentrations (0.05-1 mM) in a rapid and reversible manner. The concentration dependence of this modulation is consistent with the presence of high and low affinity interactions (K(D) = 0.06 and 4 mM, respectively). Sevoflurane (<1 mM) induces a negative shift in the conductance-voltage relation and increases the maximum conductance. Furthermore, suggesting possible roles in general anesthesia, mammalian Kv1.2 and Kv1.5 channels display similar changes. Quantitative description of the observations by an economical allosteric model indicates that sevoflurane binding favors activation gating and eliminates an unstable inactivated state outside the activation pathway. This study casts light on the mechanism of the novel sevoflurane-dependent activation of Kv channels, which helps explain how closely related inhaled anesthetics achieve specific actions and suggests strategies to develop novel Kv channel activators.
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- Annika F Barber
- Department of Neuroscience, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
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Genheden S, Kuhn O, Mikulskis P, Hoffmann D, Ryde U. The Normal-Mode Entropy in the MM/GBSA Method: Effect of System Truncation, Buffer Region, and Dielectric Constant. J Chem Inf Model 2012; 52:2079-88. [DOI: 10.1021/ci3001919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Samuel Genheden
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry,
Lund University, Chemical Centre, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Bioinformatics,
Center for Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraβe
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry,
Lund University, Chemical Centre, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Bioinformatics,
Center for Medical Biotechnology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraβe
1-5, 45117 Essen, Germany
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry,
Lund University, Chemical Centre, P.O. Box 124, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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GAPDH in anesthesia. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2012; 985:269-91. [PMID: 22851453 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4716-6_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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Thus far, two independent laboratories have shown that inhaled anesthetics directly affect GAPDH structure and function. Additionally, it has been demonstrated that GAPDH normally regulates the function of GABA (type A) receptor. In light of these literature observations and some less direct findings, there is a discussion on the putative role of GAPDH in anesthesia. The binding site of inhaled anesthetics is described from literature reports on model proteins, such as human serum albumin and apoferritin. In addition to the expected hydrophobic residues that occupy the binding cavity, there are hydrophilic residues at or in very close proximity to the site of anesthetic binding. A putative binding site in the bacterial analog of the human GABA (type A) receptor is also described. Additionally, GAPDH may also play a role in anesthetic preconditioning, a phenomenon that confers protection of cells and tissues to future challenges by noxious stimuli. The central thesis regarding this paradigm is that inhaled anesthetics evoke an intra-molecular protein dehydration that is recognized by the cell, eliciting a very specific burst of chaperone gene expression. The chaperones that are implicated are associated with conferring protection against dehydration-induced protein aggregation.
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General anesthetics predicted to block the GLIC pore with micromolar affinity. PLoS Comput Biol 2012; 8:e1002532. [PMID: 22693438 PMCID: PMC3364936 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2011] [Accepted: 04/02/2012] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Although general anesthetics are known to modulate the activity of ligand-gated ion channels in the Cys-loop superfamily, there is at present neither consensus on the underlying mechanisms, nor predictive models of this modulation. Viable models need to offer quantitative assessment of the relative importance of several identified anesthetic binding sites. However, to date, precise affinity data for individual sites has been challenging to obtain by biophysical means. Here, the likely role of pore block inhibition by the general anesthetics isoflurane and propofol of the prokaryotic pentameric channel GLIC is investigated by molecular simulations. Microscopic affinities are calculated for both single and double occupancy binding of isoflurane and propofol to the GLIC pore. Computations are carried out for an open-pore conformation in which the pore is restrained to crystallographic radius, and a closed-pore conformation that results from unrestrained molecular dynamics equilibration of the structure. The GLIC pore is predicted to be blocked at the micromolar concentrations for which inhibition by isofluorane and propofol is observed experimentally. Calculated affinities suggest that pore block by propofol occurs at signifcantly lower concentrations than those for which inhibition is observed: we argue that this discrepancy may result from binding of propofol to an allosteric site recently identified by X-ray crystallography, which may cause a competing gain-of-function effect. Affinities of isoflurane and propofol to the allosteric site are also calculated, and shown to be 3 mM for isoflurane and for propofol; both anesthetics have a lower affinity for the allosteric site than for the unoccupied pore. Although general anesthesia is performed every day on thousands of people, its detailed microscopic mechanisms are not known. What is known is that general anesthetic drugs modulate the activity of ion channels in the central nervous system. These channels are proteins that open in response to binding of neurotransmitter molecules, creating an electric current through the cell membrane and thus propagating nerve impulses between cells. One possible mechanism for ion channel inhibition by anesthetics is that the drugs bind inside the pore of the channels, blocking ion current. Here we investigate such a pore block mechanism by computing the strength of the drugs' interaction with the pore – and hence the likelihood of binding, in the case of GLIC, a bacterial channel protein. The results, obtained from numerical simulations of atomic models of GLIC, indicate that the anesthetics isoflurane and propofol have a tendency to bind in the pore that is strong enough to explain blocking of the channel, even at low concentration of the drugs.
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Liu R, Bu W, Xi J, Mortazavi SR, Cheung-Lau JC, Dmochowski IJ, Loll PJ. Beyond the detergent effect: a binding site for sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) in mammalian apoferritin. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA. SECTION D, BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2012; 68:497-504. [PMID: 22525747 PMCID: PMC3335284 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444912002740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2011] [Accepted: 01/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Although sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) is widely used as an anionic detergent, it can also exert specific pharmacological effects that are independent of the surfactant properties of the molecule. However, structural details of how proteins recognize SDS are scarce. Here, it is demonstrated that SDS binds specifically to a naturally occurring four-helix bundle protein: horse apoferritin. The X-ray crystal structure of the apoferritin-SDS complex was determined at a resolution of 1.9 Å and revealed that the SDS binds in an internal cavity that has previously been shown to recognize various general anesthetics. A dissociation constant of 24 ± 9 µM at 293 K was determined by isothermal titration calorimetry. SDS binds in this cavity by bending its alkyl tail into a horseshoe shape; the charged SDS head group lies in the opening of the cavity at the protein surface. This crystal structure provides insights into the protein-SDS interactions that give rise to binding and may prove useful in the design of novel SDS-like ligands for some proteins.
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- Renyu Liu
- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mikulskis P, Genheden S, Wichmann K, Ryde U. A semiempirical approach to ligand-binding affinities: Dependence on the Hamiltonian and corrections. J Comput Chem 2012; 33:1179-89. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.22949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2011] [Revised: 01/10/2012] [Accepted: 01/16/2012] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Liu R, Perez-Aguilar JM, Liang D, Saven JG. Binding site and affinity prediction of general anesthetics to protein targets using docking. Anesth Analg 2012; 114:947-55. [PMID: 22392968 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31824c4def] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND The protein targets for general anesthetics remain unclear. A tool to predict anesthetic binding for potential binding targets is needed. In this study, we explored whether a computational method, AutoDock, could serve as such a tool. METHODS High-resolution crystal data of water-soluble proteins (cytochrome C, apoferritin, and human serum albumin), and a membrane protein (a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel from Gloeobacter violaceus [GLIC]) were used. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) experiments were performed to determine anesthetic affinity in solution conditions for apoferritin. Docking calculations were performed using DockingServer with the Lamarckian genetic algorithm and the Solis and Wets local search method (http://www.dockingserver.com/web). Twenty general anesthetics were docked into apoferritin. The predicted binding constants were compared with those obtained from ITC experiments for potential correlations. In the case of apoferritin, details of the binding site and their interactions were compared with recent cocrystallization data. Docking calculations for 6 general anesthetics currently used in clinical settings (isoflurane, sevoflurane, desflurane, halothane, propofol, and etomidate) with known 50% effective concentration (EC(50)) values were also performed in all tested proteins. The binding constants derived from docking experiments were compared with known EC(50) values and octanol/water partition coefficients for the 6 general anesthetics. RESULTS All 20 general anesthetics docked unambiguously into the anesthetic binding site identified in the crystal structure of apoferritin. The binding constants for 20 anesthetics obtained from the docking calculations correlate significantly with those obtained from ITC experiments (P = 0.04). In the case of GLIC, the identified anesthetic binding sites in the crystal structure are among the docking predicted binding sites, but not the top ranked site. Docking calculations suggest a most probable binding site located in the extracellular domain of GLIC. The predicted affinities correlated significantly with the known EC(50) values for the 6 frequently used anesthetics in GLIC for the site identified in the experimental crystal data (P = 0.006). However, predicted affinities in apoferritin, human serum albumin, and cytochrome C did not correlate with these 6 anesthetics' known experimental EC(50) values. A weak correlation between the predicted affinities and the octanol/water partition coefficients was observed for the sites in GLIC. CONCLUSION We demonstrated that anesthetic binding sites and relative affinities can be predicted using docking calculations in an automatic docking server (AutoDock) for both water-soluble and membrane proteins. Correlation of predicted affinity and EC(50) for 6 frequently used general anesthetics was only observed in GLIC, a member of a protein family relevant to anesthetic mechanism.
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- Renyu Liu
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Bu W, Liu R, Cheung-Lau JC, Dmochowski IJ, Loll PJ, Eckenhoff RG. Ferritin couples iron and fatty acid metabolism. FASEB J 2012; 26:2394-400. [PMID: 22362897 DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-198853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A physiological relationship between iron, oxidative injury, and fatty acid metabolism exists, but transduction mechanisms are unclear. We propose that the iron storage protein ferritin contains fatty acid binding sites whose occupancy modulates iron uptake and release. Using isothermal microcalorimetry, we found that arachidonic acid binds ferritin specifically and with 60 μM affinity. Arachidonate binding by ferritin enhanced iron mineralization, decreased iron release, and protected the fatty acid from oxidation. Cocrystals of arachidonic acid and horse spleen apoferritin diffracted to 2.18 Å and revealed specific binding to the 2-fold intersubunit pocket. This pocket shields most of the fatty acid and its double bonds from solvent but allows the arachidonate tail to project well into the ferrihydrite mineralization site on the ferritin L-subunit, a structural feature that we implicate in the effects on mineralization by demonstrating that the much shorter saturated fatty acid, caprylate, has no significant effects on mineralization. These combined effects of arachidonate binding by ferritin are expected to lower both intracellular free iron and free arachidonate, thereby providing a previously unrecognized mechanism for limiting lipid peroxidation, free radical damage, and proinflammatory cascades during times of cellular stress.
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- Weiming Bu
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Recognition of anesthetic barbiturates by a protein binding site: a high resolution structural analysis. PLoS One 2012; 7:e32070. [PMID: 22359658 PMCID: PMC3281113 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2011] [Accepted: 01/23/2012] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Barbiturates potentiate GABA actions at the GABAA receptor and act as central nervous system depressants that can induce effects ranging from sedation to general anesthesia. No structural information has been available about how barbiturates are recognized by their protein targets. For this reason, we tested whether these drugs were able to bind specifically to horse spleen apoferritin, a model protein that has previously been shown to bind many anesthetic agents with affinities that are closely correlated with anesthetic potency. Thiopental, pentobarbital, and phenobarbital were all found to bind to apoferritin with affinities ranging from 10–500 µM, approximately matching the concentrations required to produce anesthetic and GABAergic responses. X-ray crystal structures were determined for the complexes of apoferritin with thiopental and pentobarbital at resolutions of 1.9 and 2.0 Å, respectively. These structures reveal that the barbiturates bind to a cavity in the apoferritin shell that also binds haloalkanes, halogenated ethers, and propofol. Unlike these other general anesthetics, however, which rely entirely upon van der Waals interactions and the hydrophobic effect for recognition, the barbiturates are recognized in the apoferritin site using a mixture of both polar and nonpolar interactions. These results suggest that any protein binding site that is able to recognize and respond to the chemically and structurally diverse set of compounds used as general anesthetics is likely to include a versatile mixture of both polar and hydrophobic elements.
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Molecular mapping of general anesthetic sites in a voltage-gated ion channel. Biophys J 2012; 101:1613-22. [PMID: 21961587 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.08.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2011] [Revised: 08/11/2011] [Accepted: 08/15/2011] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Several voltage-gated ion channels are modulated by clinically relevant doses of general anesthetics. However, the structural basis of this modulation is not well understood. Previous work suggested that n-alcohols and inhaled anesthetics stabilize the closed state of the Shaw2 voltage-gated (Kv) channel (K-Shaw2) by directly interacting with a discrete channel site. We hypothesize that the inhibition of K-Shaw2 channels by general anesthetics is governed by interactions between binding and effector sites involving components of the channel's activation gate. To investigate this hypothesis, we applied Ala/Val scanning mutagenesis to the S4-S5 linker and the post-PVP S6 segment, and conducted electrophysiological analysis to evaluate the energetic impact of the mutations on the inhibition of the K-Shaw2 channel by 1-butanol and halothane. These analyses identified residues that determine an apparent binding cooperativity and residue pairs that act in concert to modulate gating upon anesthetic binding. In some instances, due to their critical location, key residues also influence channel gating. Complementing these results, molecular dynamics simulations and in silico docking experiments helped us visualize possible anesthetic sites and interactions. We conclude that the inhibition of K-Shaw2 by general anesthetics results from allosteric interactions between distinct but contiguous binding and effector sites involving inter- and intrasubunit interfaces.
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Désy O, Carignan D, de Campos-Lima PO. Short-term immunological effects of non-ethanolic short-chain alcohols. Toxicol Lett 2012; 210:44-52. [PMID: 22266471 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2011] [Revised: 01/05/2012] [Accepted: 01/05/2012] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Short-chain alcohols are embedded into several aspects of modern life. The societal costs emanating from the long history of use and abuse of the prototypical example of these molecules, ethanol, have stimulated considerable interest in its general toxicology. A much more modest picture exists for other short-chain alcohols, notably as regards their immunotoxicity. A large segment of the general population is potentially exposed to two of these alcohols, methanol and isopropanol. Their ubiquitous nature and their eventual use as ethanol surrogates are predictably associated to accidental or deliberate poisoning. This review addresses the immunological consequences of acute exposure to methanol and isopropanol. It first examines the general mechanisms of short-chain alcohol-induced biological dysregulation and then provides a tentative model to explain the molecular events that underlie the immunological dysfunction produced by methanol and isopropanol. The time-related context of serum alcohol concentrations in acute poisoning, as well as the clinical implications of their short-term immunotoxicity, is also discussed.
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- Olivier Désy
- Laval University Cancer Research Center, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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A Single phenylalanine residue in the main intracellular loop of α1 γ-aminobutyric acid type A and glycine receptors influences their sensitivity to propofol. Anesthesiology 2011; 115:464-73. [PMID: 21673564 DOI: 10.1097/aln.0b013e31822550f7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND The intravenous anesthetic propofol acts as a positive allosteric modulator of glycine (GlyRs) and γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAARs) receptors. Although the role of transmembrane residues is recognized, little is known about the involvement of other regions in the modulatory effects of propofol. Therefore, the influence of the large intracellular loop in propofol sensitivity of both receptors was explored. METHODS The large intracellular loop of α1 GlyRs and α1β2 GABAARs was screened using alanine replacement. Sensitivity to propofol was studied using patch-clamp recording in HEK293 cells transiently transfected with wild type or mutant receptors. RESULTS Alanine mutation of a conserved phenylalanine residue within the α1 large intracellular loop significantly reduced propofol enhancement in both GlyRs (360 ± 30 vs. 75 ± 10%, mean ± SEM) and GABAARs (361 ± 49% vs. 80 ± 23%). Remarkably, propofol-hyposensitive mutant receptors retained their sensitivity to other allosteric modulators such as alcohols, etomidate, trichloroethanol, and isoflurane. At the single-channel level, the ability of propofol to increase open probability was significantly reduced in both α1 GlyR (189 ± 36 vs. 22 ± 13%) and α1β2 GABAAR (279 ± 29 vs. 29 ± 11%) mutant receptors. CONCLUSION In this study, it is demonstrated that the large intracellular loop of both GlyR and GABAAR has a conserved single phenylalanine residue (F380 and F385, respectively) that influences its sensitivity to propofol. Results suggest a new role of the large intracellular loop in the allosteric modulation of two members of the Cys-loop superfamily. Thus, these data provide new insights into the molecular framework behind the modulation of inhibitory ion channels by propofol.
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Krasowski MD, Hopfinger AJ. The discovery of new anesthetics by targeting GABAAreceptors. Expert Opin Drug Discov 2011; 6:1187-201. [DOI: 10.1517/17460441.2011.627324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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