Identification of Alternative Allosteric Sites in Glycolytic Enzymes for Potential Use as Species-Specific Drug Targets

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2020

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Ayyıldız, Merve
Çeliker, Serkan
Özhelvacı, Fatih
Akten, Ebru Demet

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Frontiers Media

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Three allosteric glycolytic enzymes, phosphofructokinase, glyceraldehyde-3 phosphate dehydrogenase and pyruvate kinase, associated with bacterial, parasitic and human species, were explored to identify potential allosteric sites that would be used as prime targets for species-specific drug design purposes using a newly developed approach which incorporates solvent mapping, elastic network modeling, sequence and structural alignments. The majority of binding sites detected by solvent mapping overlapped with the interface regions connecting the subunits, thus appeared as promising target sites for allosteric regulation. Each binding site was then evaluated by its ability to alter the global dynamics of the receptor defined by the percentage change in the frequencies of the lowest-frequency modes most significantly and as anticipated, the most effective ones were detected in the vicinity of the well-reported catalytic and allosteric sites. Furthermore, some of our proposed regions intersected with experimentally resolved sites which are known to be critical for activity regulation, which further validated our approach. Despite the high degree of structural conservation encountered between bacterial/parasitic and human glycolytic enzymes, the majority of the newly presented allosteric sites exhibited a low degree of sequence conservation which further increased their likelihood to be used as species-specific target regions for drug design studies.

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Allosteric regulation, Glycolytic enzyme, Elastic network modeling, Species-specific, Drug discovery

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15

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7

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