Binding of phenothiazines into allosteric hydrophobic pocket of human thioredoxin 1

European Biophysics Journal : EBJ
Eric Allison PhilotLuis Paulo Barbour Scott

Abstract

Thioredoxins are multifunctional oxidoreductase proteins implicated in the antioxidant cellular apparatus and oxidative stress. They are involved in several pathologies and are promising anticancer targets. Identification of noncatalytic binding sites is of great interest for designing new allosteric inhibitors of thioredoxin. In a recent work, we predicted normal mode motions of human thioredoxin 1 and identified two major putative hydrophobic binding sites. In this work we investigated noncovalent interactions of human thioredoxin 1 with three phenotiazinic drugs acting as prooxidant compounds by using molecular docking and circular dichroism spectrometry to probe ligand binding into the previously predicted allosteric hydrophobic pockets. Our in silico and CD spectrometry experiments suggested one preferred allosteric binding site involving helix 3 and adopting the best druggable conformation identified by NMA. The CD spectra showed binding of thioridazine into thioredoxin 1 and suggested partial helix unfolding, which most probably concerns helix 3. Taken together, these data support the strategy to design thioredoxin inhibitors targeting a druggable allosteric binding site.

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