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ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS
卷 671, 期 -, 页码 87-102出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.06.003
关键词
Sortase; S. aureus; Conopeptides; Venom peptides
Sortases (Srts) are transpeptidase enzymes that anchor plethora of surface proteins with LPXTG and NPQTN motifs to the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria, and they are potential targets for the development of anti-infective agents. Despite the existence of numerous inhibitors for Staphylococcus aureus SrtA (SaSrtA), only two inhibitors are known for Staphylococcus aureus SrtB (SaSrtB). Moreover, no study has yet documented the anti-virulence potential of cone snail venom conopeptides against these virulence factors. Here we report M2-conotoxin and contryphan-R as effective inhibitory agents that may competitively block the binding of natural substrates with SaSrtA and SrtB, respectively, via molecular docking and dynamic simulation assays. M2-conotoxin also exhibited strong binding inside the catalytic grooves of distantly related SrtA homologs from Streptococcus mutans (SmSrtA) and Streptococcus agalactiae (SgSrtA). On the other hand, contryphan-R failed to occupy the substrate binding site of closely related Bacillus anthracis SrtB (BaSrtB), but successfully blocked the catalytic site of very divergent C. Perfringens SrtB (CpSrtB). Hence, these naturally existing venom peptides and their mimetics may serve as promising candidates for further development of therapeutically useful anti-infectives for the treatment of infections caused by multi-drug resistant bacterial pathogens having SrtA and SrtB in their enzymatic set.
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