Docking and hydropathic scoring of polysubstituted pyrrole compounds with antitubulin activity
Docking and hydropathic scoring of polysubstituted pyrrole compounds with antitubulin activity
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DOI:
10.1016/j.bmc.2007.11.076
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发表时间:
2008-03-01
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Mooberry, Susan L.
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作者:
Tripathi, Ashutosh;Fornabaio, Micaela;Mooberry, Susan L.
Compounds that bind at the colchicine site of tubulin have drawn considerable attention with studies indicating that these agents suppress microtubule dynamics and inhibit tubulin polymerization. Data for 18 polysubstituted pyrrole compounds are reported, including antiproliferative activity against human MDA-MB-435 cells and calculated free energies of binding following docking the compounds into models of alpha beta-tubulin. These docking calculations coupled with HINT interaction analyses are able to represent the complex structures and the binding modes of inhibitors such that calculated and measured free energies of binding correlate with an r(2) of 0.76. Structural analysis of the binding pocket identifies important intermolecular contacts that mediate binding. As seen experimentally, the complex with JG-03-14 (3,5-dibromo-4-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl)-1H-pyrrole-2-carboxylic acid ethyl ester) is the most stable. These results illuminate the binding process and should be valuable in the design of new pyrrole-based colchicine site inhibitors as these compounds have very accessible syntheses. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.