Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Citt. Universitaria, I-09042 Monserrato (Cagliari), Italy.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73072, USA.
Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2022 Jul 13;24(27):16566-16575. doi: 10.1039/d2cp00951j.
The drug/proton antiporter MexB is the engine of the major efflux pump MexAB-OprM in . This protein is known to transport a large variety of compounds, including antibiotics, thus conferring a multi-drug resistance phenotype. Due to the difficulty of producing co-crystals, only two X-ray structures of MexB in a complex with ligands are available to date, and mechanistic aspects are largely hypothesized based on the body of data collected for the homologous protein AcrB of . In particular, a recent study (Ornik-Cha, Wilhelm, Kobylka , 2021, , 6919) reported a co-crystal structure of AcrB in a complex with levofloxacin, an antibiotic belonging to the important class of (fluoro)-quinolones. In this work, we performed a systematic ensemble docking campaign coupled to the cluster analysis and molecular-mechanics optimization of docking poses to study the interaction between 36 quinolone antibiotics and MexB. We additionally investigated surface complementarity between each molecule and the transporter and thoroughly assessed the computational protocol adopted against the known experimental data. Our study reveals different binding preferences of the investigated compounds towards the sub-sites of the large deep binding pocket of MexB, supporting the hypothesis that MexB substrates oscillate between different binding modes with similar affinity. Interestingly, small changes in the molecular structure translate into significant differences in MexB-quinolone interactions. All the predicted binding modes are available for download and visualization at the following link: https://www.dsf.unica.it/dock/mexb/quinolones.
药物/质子反转运蛋白 MexB 是. 中主要外排泵 MexAB-OprM 的引擎。该蛋白已知可转运多种化合物,包括抗生素,从而赋予其多药耐药表型。由于难以产生共晶,迄今为止仅获得了两种与配体结合的 MexB 的 X 射线结构,并且基于. 同源蛋白 AcrB 收集的数据,机械方面在很大程度上是假设的。特别是,最近的一项研究(Ornik-Cha、Wilhelm、Kobylka,2021 年, ,6919)报道了 AcrB 与左氧氟沙星(一种属于重要(氟)喹诺酮类抗生素的抗生素)复合物的共晶结构。在这项工作中,我们进行了系统的整体对接计算,结合对接构象的聚类分析和分子力学优化,研究了 36 种喹诺酮类抗生素与 MexB 之间的相互作用。我们还研究了每个分子与转运蛋白之间的表面互补性,并根据已知的实验数据对采用的计算方案进行了全面评估。我们的研究揭示了研究化合物对 MexB 大深结合口袋亚位点的不同结合偏好,支持 MexB 底物在相似亲和力的不同结合模式之间振荡的假设。有趣的是,分子结构的微小变化会导致 MexB-喹诺酮相互作用的显著差异。所有预测的结合模式均可在以下链接下载和可视化:https://www.dsf.unica.it/dock/mexb/quinolones。
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