Governa Paolo, Biagi Marco, Manetti Fabrizio, Forli Stefano
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute La Jolla CA 92037 USA
Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Siena 53100 Siena Italy.
RSC Med Chem. 2024 Jan 22;15(2):720-732. doi: 10.1039/d3md00649b. eCollection 2024 Feb 21.
ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are a large family of proteins involved in membrane transport of a wide variety of substrates. Among them, ABCB1, also known as MDR-1 or P-glycoprotein (P-gp), is the most characterized. By exporting xenobiotics out of the cell, P-gp activity can affect the ADME properties of several drugs. Moreover, P-gp has been found to mediate multidrug resistance in cancer cells. Thus, the inhibition of P-gp activity may lead to increased absorption and/or intracellular accumulation of co-administered drugs, enhancing their effectiveness. Using the human-mouse chimeric cryoEM 3D structure of the P-gp in the inhibitor-bound intermediate form (PDBID: 6qee), approximately 200 000 commercially available natural compounds from the ZINC database were virtually screened. To build a model able to discriminate between substrate and inhibitors, two datasets of compounds with known activity, including P-gp inhibitors, substrates, and inactive molecules were also docked. The best docking pose of selected substrates and inhibitors were used to generate 3D common feature pharmacophoric models that were combined with the Autodock Vina binding energy values to prioritize compounds for visual inspection. With this consensus approach, 13 potential candidates were identified and then tested for their ability to inhibit P-gp, using zosuquidar, a third generation P-gp inhibitor, as a reference drug. Eight compounds were found to be active with 6 of them having an IC lower than 5 μM in a membrane-based ATPase activity assay. Moreover, the P-gp inhibitory activity was also confirmed by two different cell-based methods. Both retrospective and prospective results demonstrate the ability of the combined structure-based pharmacophore modeling and docking-based virtual screening approach to predict novel hit compounds with inhibitory activity toward P-gp. The resulting chemical scaffolds could serve as inspiration for the optimization of novel and more potent P-gp inhibitors.
ATP结合盒(ABC)转运蛋白是一个大家族的蛋白质,参与多种底物的膜转运。其中,ABCB1,也被称为多药耐药蛋白1(MDR-1)或P-糖蛋白(P-gp),是研究最为深入的。通过将外源性物质输出细胞,P-gp的活性可以影响多种药物的吸收、分布、代谢和排泄(ADME)特性。此外,已发现P-gp介导癌细胞的多药耐药性。因此,抑制P-gp的活性可能导致同时给药药物的吸收增加和/或细胞内蓄积增加,从而增强其疗效。利用抑制剂结合中间形式的P-gp的人-小鼠嵌合冷冻电镜3D结构(PDBID:6qee),对ZINC数据库中约200000种市售天然化合物进行了虚拟筛选。为了建立一个能够区分底物和抑制剂的模型,还对接了两个具有已知活性的化合物数据集,包括P-gp抑制剂、底物和无活性分子。所选底物和抑制剂的最佳对接构象用于生成3D共同特征药效团模型,该模型与Autodock Vina结合能值相结合,以便对化合物进行优先级排序,以供目视检查。通过这种共识方法,鉴定出13种潜在候选物,然后以第三代P-gp抑制剂佐苏地尔为参考药物,测试它们抑制P-gp的能力。发现8种化合物具有活性,其中6种在基于膜的ATP酶活性测定中的IC50低于5μM。此外,两种不同的基于细胞的方法也证实了P-gp抑制活性。回顾性和前瞻性结果均表明,基于结构的药效团建模和基于对接的虚拟筛选相结合的方法能够预测对P-gp具有抑制活性的新型命中化合物。所得的化学支架可为新型更强效P-gp抑制剂的优化提供灵感。