Free energy calculations on the binding of novel thiolactomycin derivatives to E. coli fatty acid synthase I

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
Thomas SteinbrecherAndreas Labahn

Abstract

Finding novel antibiotics to combat the rise of drug resistance in harmful bacteria is of enormous importance for human health. Computational drug design can be employed to aid synthetic chemists in the search for new potent inhibitors. In recent years, molecular dynamics based free energy calculations have emerged as a useful tool to accurately calculate receptor binding affinities of novel or modified ligands. While being significantly more demanding in computational resources than simpler docking algorithms, they can be employed to obtain reliable estimates of the effect individual functional groups have on protein-ligand complex binding constants. Beta-ketoacyl [acyl carrier protein] synthase I, KAS I, facilitates a critical chain elongation step in the fatty acid synthesis pathway. Since the bacterial type II lipid synthesis system is fundamentally different from the mammalian type I multi-enzyme complex, this enzyme represents a promising target for the design of specific antibiotics. In this work, we study the binding of several recently synthesized derivatives of the natural KAS I inhibitor thiolactomycin in detail based on atomistic modeling. From extensive thermodynamic integration calculations the effect of changing ...Continue Reading

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