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Angrish N, Lalwani N, Khare G. In silico virtual screening for the identification of novel inhibitors against dihydrodipicolinate reductase (DapB) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a key enzyme of diaminopimelate pathway. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0135923. [PMID: 37855602 PMCID: PMC10714930 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.01359-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/20/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Non-compliance to lengthy antituberculosis (TB) treatment regimen, associated side effects, and emergence of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) emphasize the need to develop more effective anti-TB drugs. Here, we have evaluated the role of M. tb dihydrodipicolinate reductase (DapB), a component of the diaminopimelate pathway, which is involved in the biosynthesis of both lysine and mycobacterial cell wall. We showed that DapB is essential for the in vitro as well as intracellular growth of M. tb. We further utilized M. tb DapB, as a target for identification of inhibitors by employing in silico virtual screening, and conducted various in vitro screening assays to identify inhibitors with potential to inhibit DapB activity and in vitro and intracellular growth of M. tb with no significant cytotoxicity against various mammalian cell lines. Altogether, M. tb DapB serves as an important drug target and a hit molecule, namely, 4-(3-Phenylazoquinoxalin-2-yl) butanoic acid methyl ester has been identified as an antimycobacterial molecule in our study.
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- Nupur Angrish
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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Sánchez-Hidalgo M, García MJ, González I, Oves-Costales D, Genilloud O. Complete Genome Sequence Analysis of Kribbella sp. CA-293567 and Identification of the Kribbellichelins A & B and Sandramycin Biosynthetic Gene Clusters. Microorganisms 2023; 11:microorganisms11020265. [PMID: 36838228 PMCID: PMC9962454 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11020265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 01/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2023] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Minor genera actinomycetes are considered a promising source of new secondary metabolites. The strain Kribbella sp. CA-293567 produces sandramycin and kribbellichelins A & B In this work, we describe the complete genome sequencing of this strain and the in silico identification of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), focusing on the pathways encoding sandramycin and kribbellichelins A-B. We also present a comparative analysis of the biosynthetic potential of 38 publicly available genomes from Kribbella strains.
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Felice AG, Alves LG, Freitas ASF, Rodrigues TCV, Jaiswal AK, Tiwari S, Gomes LGR, Miranda FM, Ramos RTJ, Azevedo V, Oliveira LC, Oliveira CJ, Soares SDC, Benevides LJ. Pan-genomic analyses of 47 complete genomes of the Rickettsia genus and prediction of new vaccine targets and virulence factors of the species. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2021; 40:7496-7510. [PMID: 33719856 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2021.1898473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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The genus Rickettsia belongs to the Proteobacteria phylum and these bacteria infect animals and humans causing a range of diseases worldwide. The genus is divided into 4 groups and despite the public health threat and the knowledge accumulated so far, the mandatory intracellular bacteria behaviour and limitation for in vitro culture makes it difficult to create new vaccines and drug targets to these bacteria. In an attempt to overcome these limitations, pan-genomic approaches has used 47 genomes of the genus Rickettsia, in order to describe species similarities and genomics islands. Moreover, we conducted reverse vaccinology and docking analysis aiming the identification of proteins that have great potential to become vaccine and drug targets. We found out that the bacteria of the four Rickettsia groups have a high similarity with each other, with about 90 to 100% of identity. A pathogenicity island and a resistance island were predicted. In addition, 8 proteins were also predicted as strong candidates for vaccine and 9 as candidates for drug targets. The prediction of the proteins leads us to believe in a possibility of prospecting potential drugs or creating a polyvalent vaccine, which could reach most strains of this large group of bacteria.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Andrei G Felice
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Biological and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Biological and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Biological and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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- Department of General Biology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.,Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Biological and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Biological and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Institute of Biological and Natural Sciences, Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Uberaba, MG, Brazil
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- Bioinformatics Laboratory, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Pote S, Kachhap S, Mank NJ, Daneshian L, Klapper V, Pye S, Arnette AK, Shimizu LS, Borowski T, Chruszcz M. Comparative structural and mechanistic studies of 4-hydroxy-tetrahydrodipicolinate reductases from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Vibrio vulnificus. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2020; 1865:129750. [PMID: 32980502 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2020.129750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Revised: 09/20/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND The products of the lysine biosynthesis pathway, meso-diaminopimelate and lysine, are essential for bacterial survival. This paper focuses on the structural and mechanistic characterization of 4-hydroxy-tetrahydrodipicolinate reductase (DapB), which is one of the enzymes from the lysine biosynthesis pathway. DapB catalyzes the conversion of (2S, 4S)-4-hydroxy-2,3,4,5-tetrahydrodipicolinate (HTPA) to 2,3,4,5-tetrahydrodipicolinate in an NADH/NADPH dependent reaction. Genes coding for DapBs were identified as essential for many pathogenic bacteria, and therefore DapB is an interesting new target for the development of antibiotics. METHODS We have combined experimental and computational approaches to provide novel insights into mechanism of the DapB catalyzed reaction. RESULTS Structures of DapBs originating from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Vibrio vulnificus in complexes with NAD+, NADP+, as well as with inhibitors, were determined and described. The structures determined by us, as well as currently available structures of DapBs from other bacterial species, were compared and used to elucidate a mechanism of reaction catalyzed by this group of enzymes. Several different computational methods were used to provide a detailed description of a plausible reaction mechanism. CONCLUSIONS This is the first report presenting the detailed mechanism of reaction catalyzed by DapB. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE Structural data in combination with information on the reaction mechanism provide a background for development of DapB inhibitors, including transition-state analogues.
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- Swanandi Pote
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 30-239 Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
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