Binding Mode and Selectivity of Steroids towards Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase from the Pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi.

Cecilia Ortiz; Francesca Moraca; Andrea Medeiros; Maurizio Botta; Niall Hamilton; Marcelo Comini

doi:10.3390/molecules21030368

Binding Mode and Selectivity of Steroids towards Glucose-6-phosphate Dehydrogenase from the Pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi.

Cecilia Ortiz ^{1, *} Francesca Moraca ^{2, *} Andrea Medeiros ^{1, 3, *} Maurizio Botta ^{2, *} Niall Hamilton ^{4, *} Marcelo Comini ^{1, *}

* Auteur correspondant

1 Institut Pasteur de Montevideo

2 UNISI - Università degli Studi di Siena

3 UCUR - Universidad de la República [Montevideo]

4 Drug Discovery Unit, Cancer Research, UK Manchester Institute, Wilmslow Road, Manchester

Abstract : Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) plays a housekeeping role in cell metabolism by generating reducing power (NADPH) and fueling the production of nucleotide precursors (ribose-5-phosphate). Based on its indispensability for pathogenic parasites from the genus Trypanosoma, G6PDH is considered a drug target candidate. Several steroid-like scaffolds were previously reported to target the activity of G6PDH. Epiandrosterone (EA) is an uncompetitive inhibitor of trypanosomal G6PDH for which its binding site to the enzyme remains unknown. Molecular simulation studies with the structure of Trypanosoma cruzi G6PDH revealed that EA binds in a pocket close to the G6P binding-site and protrudes into the active site blocking the interaction between substrates and hence catalysis. Site directed mutagenesis revealed the important steroid-stabilizing effect of residues (L80, K83 and K84) located on helix α-1 of T. cruzi G6PDH. The higher affinity and potency of 16α-Br EA by T. cruzi G6PDH is explained by the formation of a halogen bond with the hydrogen from the terminal amide of the NADP+-nicotinamide. At variance with the human enzyme, the inclusion of a 21-hydroxypregnane-20-one moiety to a 3β-substituted steroid is detrimental for T. cruzi G6PDH inhibition. The species-specificity of certain steroid derivatives towards the parasite G6PDH and the corresponding biochemically validated binding models disclosed in this work may prove valuable for the development of selective inhibitors against the pathogen's enzyme.

Keywords : Chagas disease Leishmania epiandrosterone inhibition by steroids pentose phosphate pathway structure activity relationship

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Molecules, MDPI, 2016, 21 (3), pp.368. 〈10.3390/molecules21030368〉

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Sciences du Vivant [q-bio] / Microbiologie et Parasitologie

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