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:Human telomeric DNA G-quadruplex has been identified as a good therapeutic target in cancer treatment. G-quadruplex-specific ligands that stabilize the G-quadruplex have great potential to be developed as anticancer agents. Two crystal structures (an apo form of parallel stranded human telomeric G-quadruplex and its holo form in complex with BRACO19, a potent G-quadruplex ligand) have been solved, yet the binding mechanism and pathway remain elusive. In this study, we simulated the binding of a free BRACO19 molecule to the apo form of the G-quadruplex using the latest AMBER DNA (OL15) and ligand (GAFF2) force fields. Three binding modes have been identified: top stacking, bottom intercalation, and groove binding. Bottom intercalation (51% of the population) resembles the bottom binding pose in the complex crystal structure very well. The groove binding mode is less stable than the bottom binding mode and is likely to be an intermediate state leading to the bottom binding mode. A flip-insertion mechanism was observed in the bottom intercalation mode, during which flipping of the bases outward makes space for ligand insertion, after which the bases flip back to increase the stability of the complex. In addition to reproducing the base-flipping behavior for some loop residues upon ligand binding, the direct alignment type of the ATAT-tetrad was observed in our simulations for the first time. These successes provide initial support for using this combination of the OL15 and GAFF2 force fields to study quadruplex-ligand interactions.
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J Chem Inf Modeljournal_title
Journal of chemical information and modelingauthors
Machireddy B,Kalra G,Jonnalagadda S,Ramanujachary K,Wu Cdoi
10.1021/acs.jcim.7b00287subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-11-27 00:00:00pages
2846-2864issue
11eissn
1549-9596issn
1549-960Xjournal_volume
57pub_type
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