Kobayashi Ayame, Nakajima Motokuni, Noguchi Yoh, Morikawa Ryota, Matsuo Yukiko, Takasu Masako
School of Life Sciences, Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Tokyo 192-0392, Japan.
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan.
Life (Basel). 2023 Feb 18;13(2):578. doi: 10.3390/life13020578.
Alzheimer's disease is an irreversible neurological disorder for which there are no effective small molecule therapeutics. A phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitor is a candidate medicine for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Rutaecarpine, an indole alkaloid found in , has inhibitory activity for PDE5. contains more evodiamine than rutaecarpine. Therefore, we performed molecular dynamics simulations of the complex of PDE5 and evodiamine. The results showed that the PDE5 and (-)-evodiamine complexes were placed inside the reaction center compared to the case of PDE5 and (+)-evodiamine complex. The binding of (-)-evodiamine to PDE5 increased the root-mean-square deviation and radius of gyration of PDE5. In the PDE5 with (-)-evodiamine complex, the value of the root-mean-square fluctuation of the M-loop, which is thought to be important for activity, increased. This result suggests that (-)-evodiamine may have inhibitory activity.
阿尔茨海默病是一种不可逆的神经疾病,目前尚无有效的小分子治疗药物。磷酸二酯酶5(PDE5)抑制剂是治疗阿尔茨海默病的候选药物。吴茱萸次碱是一种存在于[具体来源未提及]中的吲哚生物碱,对PDE5具有抑制活性。[具体来源未提及]中吴茱萸碱的含量高于吴茱萸次碱。因此,我们对PDE5与吴茱萸碱的复合物进行了分子动力学模拟。结果表明,与PDE5和(+)-吴茱萸碱复合物相比,PDE5与(-)-吴茱萸碱复合物位于反应中心内部。(-)-吴茱萸碱与PDE5的结合增加了PDE5的均方根偏差和回转半径。在含有(-)-吴茱萸碱复合物的PDE5中,被认为对活性很重要的M环的均方根波动值增加。这一结果表明(-)-吴茱萸碱可能具有抑制活性。