Journal
MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 15, Issue 4, Pages 1445-1456Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00976
Keywords
muscle relaxant; circular dichroism; tolperisone hydrochloride; esterase-like activity; human serum albumin; molecular docking
Funding
- Research Grant of Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), Republic of Korea [K16281]
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Tolperisone hydrochloride (TH) has muscle relaxant activity and has been widely used for several years in clinical practice to treat pathologically high skeletal muscle tone (spasticity) and related pains. The current study was designed to explore the binding efficacy of TH with human serum albumin (HSA) using multispectrscopic, calorimetric approach, FRET, esterase I like activity, and a molecular docking method. A reduction in fluorescence emission at 340 nm of HSA was attributed to fluorescence quenching by TH via a static quenching type. Binding constants (K-b) were evaluated at different temperatures, and obtained Kb values were similar to 10(4) M-1 which demonstrated moderately strong affinity of TH for HSA. A calculated negative Delta G degrees value indicated spontaneous binding of TH to HSA. Far-UV CD spectroscopy revealed that the a-helix content was increased after TH binding. The binding distance between donor and acceptor was calculated to be 2.11 nm based on Forster's resonance energy transfer theory. ITC results revealed TH interacted with HSA via hydrophobic interactions and hydrogen bonding. The thermal stability of HSA was studied using DSC, and results showed that in the presence of TH the structure of HSA was significantly more thermostable. The esterase-like activity of HSA showed fixed V-max and increased K-m suggesting that TH binds with HSA in a competitive manner. Furthermore, molecular docking results revealed TH binds in the cavity of HSA, that is, subdomain IIA (Sudlow site I), and that it hydrogen bonds with K199 and H242 of HSA. Binding studies of drugs with HSA are potentially useful for elucidating chemico-biological interactions that can be utilized in the drug design, pharmaceutical, pharmacology, and biochemistry fields. This extensive study provides additional insight of ligand binding and structural changes induced in HSA relevant to the biological activity of HSA in vivo.
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