Mechanism of Naphthoquinone Selectivity of Thymidylate Synthase ThyX.

Biophysical Journal
Hannu MyllykallioAlexey Aleksandrov

Abstract

Naphthoquinones (NQs) are natural and synthetic compounds with a wide range of biological activities commonly attributed to their redox activity and/or chemical reactivity. However, genetic and biochemical experiments have recently demonstrated that 2-hydroxy-NQs (2-OH-NQs) act as highly specific noncovalent inhibitors of the essential bacterial thymidylate synthase ThyX in a cellular context. We used biochemical experiments and molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate the selective inhibition mechanism of NQ inhibitors of ThyX from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Free energy simulations rationalized how ThyX recognizes the natural substrate dUMP in the N3-ionized form using an arginine, Arg199, in Mtb. The results further demonstrated that 2-OH-NQ, similar to dUMP, binds to ThyX in the ionized form, and the strong and selective binding of 2-OH-NQ to ThyX is also explained by electrostatic interactions with Arg199. The stronger binding of the close analog 5F-dUMP to ThyX and its inhibitory properties compared with dUMP were explained by the stronger acidity of the uracil N3 atom. Our results, therefore, revealed that the ionization of 2-OH-NQs drives their biological activities by mimicking the interactions with the natura...Continue Reading

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