Title
Molecular docking and binding mode analysis of plant alkaloids as in vitro and in silico inhibitors of trypanothione reductase from trypanosoma cruzi
Date Issued
23 January 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Natural Product Incorporation
Abstract
Trypanothione reductase (TryR) is a key enzyme in the metabolism of Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite responsible for Chagas disease. The available repertoire of TryR inhibitors relies heavily on synthetic substrates of limited structural diversity, and less on plant-derived natural products. In this study, a molecular docking procedure using a Lamarckian Genetic Algorithm was implemented to examine the protein-ligand binding interactions of strong in vitro inhibitors for which no X-ray data is available. In addition, a small, skeletally diverse, set of natural alkaloids was assessed computationally against T. cruzi TryR in search of new scaffolds for lead development. The preferential binding mode (low number of clusters, high cluster population), together with the deduced binding interactions were used to discriminate among the virtual inhibitors. This study confirms the prior in vitro data and proposes quebrachamine, cephalotaxine, cryptolepine, (22S,25S)-tomatidine, (22R,25S)-solanidine, and (22R,25R)-solasodine as new alkaloid scaffold leads in the search for more potent and selective TryR inhibitors.
Start page
57
End page
62
Volume
11
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biotecnolog铆a agr铆cola, Biotecnolog铆a alimentaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84973407849
PubMed ID
Source
Natural Product Communications
ISSN of the container
1934578X
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producci贸n Cient铆fica
Scopus