Subnanomolar inhibitor of cytochrome bc1 complex designed by optimizing interaction with conformationally flexible residues.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
Pei-Liang ZhaoGuang-Fu Yang

Abstract

Cytochrome bc(1) complex (EC 1.10.2.2, bc(1)), an essential component of the cellular respiratory chain and the photosynthetic apparatus in photosynthetic bacteria, has been identified as a promising target for new drugs and agricultural fungicides. X-ray diffraction structures of the free bc(1) complex and its complexes with various inhibitors revealed that the phenyl group of Phe274 in the binding pocket exhibited significant conformational flexibility upon different inhibitors binding to optimize respective pi-pi interactions, whereas the side chains of other hydrophobic residues showed conformational stability. Therefore, in the present study, a strategy of optimizing the pi-pi interaction with conformationally flexible residues was proposed to design and discover new bc(1) inhibitors with a higher potency. Eight new compounds were designed and synthesized, among which compound 5c, with a K(i) value of 570 pM, was identified as the most promising drug or fungicide candidate, significantly more potent than the commercially available bc(1) inhibitors, including azoxystrobin (AZ), kresoxim-methyl (KM), and pyraclostrobin (PY). To our knowledge, this is the first bc(1) inhibitor discovered from structure-based design with a pot...Continue Reading

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