Rational redesign of inhibitors of furin/kexin processing proteases by electrostatic mutations.

Abstract:

AIM:To model the three-dimensional structure and investigate the interaction mechanism of the proprotein convertase furin/kexin and their inhibitors (eglin c mutants). METHODS:The three-dimensional complex structures of furin/kexin with its inhibitors, eglin c mutants, were generated by modeller program using the newly published X-ray crystallographical structures of mouse furin and yeast kexin as templates. The electrostatic interaction energy of each complex was calculated and the results were compared with the experimentally determined inhibition constants to find the correlation between them. RESULTS:High quality models of furin/kexin-eglin c mutants were obtained and used for calculation of the electrostatic interaction energies between the proteases and their inhibitors. The calculated electrostatic energies of interaction showed a linear correlation to the experimental inhibition constants. CONCLUSION:The modeled structures give good explanations of the specificity of eglin c mutants to furin/kexin. The electrostatic interactions play important roles in inhibitory activity of eglin c mutants to furin/kexin. The results presented here provided quantitative structural and functional information concerning the role of the charge-charge interactions in the binding of furin/kexin and their inhibitors.

journal_name

Acta Pharmacol Sin

authors

Cai XH,Zhang Q,Ding DF

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-12-01 00:00:00

pages

1712-818

issue

12

eissn

1671-4083

issn

1745-7254

journal_volume

25

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