基于结构的虚拟筛选发现新的曼氏血吸虫天冬氨酸蛋白酶抑制剂。

IF 2.5 4区 医学 Q2 PARASITOLOGY
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摘要

背景:血吸虫病是由血吸虫属吸虫引起的一种被忽视的热带疾病,治疗方法有限,主要以吡喹酮(PZQ)的使用为基础。目前,已有几个天冬氨酸蛋白酶基因在血吸虫基因组中被鉴定出来。至少有一种由该基因家族(SmAP)编码的酶(名为SmCD1)已被证实可用于开发杀血吸虫药物,因为它在蠕虫消化血红蛋白中起着关键作用。目的:在这项工作中,我们整合了基于结构的虚拟筛选活动,酶分析和成虫离体实验,旨在发现第一类SmCD1抑制剂。方法:首先利用同源性建模方法生成SmCD1、SmCD2和SmCD3的三维结构。利用这些模型,我们从ChemBridge数据库的20,000种化合物中优选出50种化合物,使用酶促法在成虫水提取物(AWAE)和重组SmCD1中进行进一步测试。结果:7个化合物被确认为命中,其中代表新化学支架的2个化合物5和19对SmCD1的IC50值接近100 μM,结合效率指数与经典的天冬氨酸蛋白酶紧密结合肽抑制剂pepstatin相当甚至更高。与哺乳动物酶活性比较,化合物50具有选择性,对AWAE天冬氨酸蛋白酶活性最强(IC50 = 77.7 μM)。计算和实验结果表明,化合物50是SmCD2的选择性抑制剂。化合物5、19和50在低浓度(10 μ m)下对WSS-1细胞(48 h)没有细胞毒性,也不能在体外杀死成虫,尽管化合物5和50在孵育后期(48或72 h)对雌性蠕虫的活力有轻微的降低。主要结论:总体而言,本研究中鉴定的抑制剂为进一步的hit- lead优化提供了有希望的打击。
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Discovery of new Schistosoma mansoni aspartyl protease inhibitors by structure-based virtual screening.

Discovery of new Schistosoma mansoni aspartyl protease inhibitors by structure-based virtual screening.

Discovery of new Schistosoma mansoni aspartyl protease inhibitors by structure-based virtual screening.

Discovery of new Schistosoma mansoni aspartyl protease inhibitors by structure-based virtual screening.

Background: Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, with a limited treatment, mainly based on the use of praziquantel (PZQ). Currently, several aspartic proteases genes have already been identified within the genome of Schistosoma species. At least one enzyme encoded from this gene family (SmAP), named SmCD1, has been validated for the development of schistosomicidal drugs, since it has a key role in haemoglobin digestion by worms.

Objective: In this work, we integrated a structure-based virtual screening campaign, enzymatic assays and adult worms ex vivo experiments aiming to discover the first classes of SmCD1 inhibitors.

Methods: Initially, the 3D-structures of SmCD1, SmCD2 and SmCD3 were generated using homology modelling approach. Using these models, we prioritised 50 compounds from 20,000 compounds from ChemBridge database for further testing in adult worm aqueous extract (AWAE) and recombinant SmCD1 using enzymatic assays.

Findings: Seven compounds were confirmed as hits and among them, two compounds representing new chemical scaffolds, named 5 and 19, had IC50 values against SmCD1 close to 100 μM while presenting binding efficiency indexes comparable to or even higher than pepstatin, a classical tight-binding peptide inhibitor of aspartyl proteases. Upon activity comparison against mammalian enzymes, compound 50 was selective and the most potent against the AWAE aspartic protease activity (IC50 = 77.7 μM). Combination of computational and experimental results indicate that compound 50 is a selective inhibitor of SmCD2. Compounds 5, 19 and 50 tested at low concentrations (10 uM) were neither cytotoxic against WSS-1 cells (48 h) nor could kill adult worms ex-vivo, although compounds 5 and 50 presented a slight decrease on female worms motility on late incubations times (48 or 72 h).

Main conclusion: Overall, the inhibitors identified in this work represent promising hits for further hit-to-lead optimisation.

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5.00
自引率
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91
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3-8 weeks
期刊介绍: Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz is a journal specialized in microbes & their vectors causing human infections. This means that we accept manuscripts covering multidisciplinary approaches and findings in the basic aspects of infectious diseases, e.g. basic in research in prokariotes, eukaryotes, and/or virus. Articles must clearly show what is the main question to be answered, the hypothesis raised, and the contribution given by the study. Priority is given to manuscripts reporting novel mechanisms and general findings concerning the biology of human infectious prokariotes, eukariotes or virus. Papers reporting innovative methods for diagnostics or that advance the basic research with these infectious agents are also welcome. It is important to mention what we do not publish: veterinary infectious agents research, taxonomic analysis and re-description of species, epidemiological studies or surveys or case reports and data re-analysis. Manuscripts that fall in these cases or that are considered of low priority by the journal editorial board, will be returned to the author(s) for submission to another journal.
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