Computational analyses on delineating specificity of 2-hydroxy-3,5-dinitrobenzamide, a BH3-mimetic, towards anti-apoptotic proteins
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https://doi.org/10.3329/bjp.v9i3.18965Keywords:
Anti-apoptotic protein, Bcl-2 family, BH3-mimetic, 2-hydroxy-3, 5-dinitrobenzamideAbstract
We have herein computationally examined binding affinities and specificity of 2-hydroxy-3,5-dinitrobenzamide (HDNB), a small chemical molecular BH3-mimetic identified by means of peptidodynmimetic method, on the BH3-binding grooves of six anti-apoptotic proteins (Bcl-2, Bcl-B, Bcl-W, Bcl-XL, Bfl-1 and Mcl-1) from human beings. The HDNB ligand was found to interact on the BH3-binding grooves of Bcl-2, Bcl-B, Bcl-XL, Bfl-1 and Mcl-1, whereas it did not act as BH3-mimetic to Bcl-W. Moreover, binding affinities of the HDNB towards the anti-apoptotic proteins were significantly different from each other. The differential binding affinities and specificity of the HDNB towards the anti-apoptotic proteins have been chiefly attributed to the differences in the chemical properties of BH3-binding grooves of the proteins. Implications of the study to design efficient de novo antagonists to the anti-apoptotic proteins using the HDNB as seed molecule have been discussed.
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