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Natural Product Neopeltolide as a Cytochrome bc1 Complex Inhibitor: Mechanism of Action and Structural Modification
Zhu, Xiao-Lei,Zhang, Rui,Wu, Qiong-You,Song, Yong-Jun,Wang, Yu-Xia,Yang, Jing-Fang,Yang, Guang-Fu
, (2019/03/19)
The marine natural product neopeltolide was isolated from a deep-water sponge specimen of the family Neopeltidae. Neopeltolide has been proven to be a new type of inhibitor of the cytochrome bc1 complex in the mitochondrial respiration chain. However, its detailed inhibition mechanism has remained unknown. In addition, neopeltolide is difficult to synthesize because of its very complex chemical structure. In the present work, the binding mode of neopeltolide was determined for the first time by integrating molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, and molecular mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann surface area calculations, which showed that neopeltolide is a Qo site inhibitor of the bc1 complex. Then, according to guidance via inhibitor-protein interaction analysis, structural modification was carried out with the aim to simplify the chemical structure of neopeltolide, leading to the synthesis of a series of new neopeltolide derivatives with much simpler chemical structures. The calculated binding energies (ΔGcal) of the newly synthesized analogues correlated very well (R2 = 0.90) with their experimental binding free energies (ΔGexp), which confirmed that the computational protocol was reliable. Compound 45, bearing a diphenyl ether fragment, was successfully designed and synthesized as the most potent candidate (IC50 = 12 nM) against porcine succinate cytochrome c reductase. The molecular modeling results indicate that compound 45 formed a π-π interaction with Phe274 and two hydrogen bonds with Glu271 and His161. The present work provides a new starting point for future fungicide discovery to overcome the resistance that the existing bc1 complex inhibitors are facing.
Discovery of 1,2,4-triazole-1,3-disulfonamides as dual inhibitors of mitochondrial complex II and complex III
Cheng, Hua,Shen, Yan-Qing,Pan, Xia-Yan,Hou, Yi-Ping,Wu, Qiong-You,Yang, Guang-Fu
, p. 7281 - 7292 (2015/09/02)
Respiratory chain succinate-ubiquinone oxidoreductase (SQR or complex II) and ubihydroquinone-cytochrome (cyt) c oxidoreductase (cyt bc1 or complex III) have been demonstrated as the promising targets of numerous antibiotics and fungicides. As a continuation of our research work on the development of new fungicides, a series of 1,2,4-triazole-1,3-disulfonamide derivatives with dual functions targeting both SQR and cyt bc1 were designed and synthesized by coupling diverse diphenyl ether moieties with triazolesulfonamide units. These newly synthesized compounds were characterized by elemental analyses, 1H NMR and ESI-MS spectrometry. The in vitro assay indicated that most of the synthesized compounds displayed good inhibition against porcine succinate-cytochrome reductase (SCR) with IC50 values ranging from 3.2 to 81.8 μM, revealing much higher activity than that of the commercial control amisulbrom whose IC50 value is 93.0 μM. Further evaluation against the respective SQR and cyt bc1 indicated that most compounds exhibited SQR-inhibiting activity as well as cyt bc1-inhibiting activity, but the inhibition potency against SQR is much higher than that against cyt bc1, showing that the SCR inhibition might be contributed greatly by the SQR inhibition. The further antibacterial evaluation against Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae revealed that four compounds showed excellent potency at the concentration of 20 μg mL-1. In particular, compounds 6h and 6j exhibited much better antibacterial activity than the commercial control bismerthiazol in terms of their EC50. Impressively, 6j has an EC90 of 33.62 μg mL-1, more than 10-fold higher than that of bismerthiazol.
