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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
卷 223, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117293
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Bovine hemoglobin; Nitidine; Ground-state complexation; Electrostatic binding; Molecular docking
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- University Grants Commission, Government of India
- RUSA 2.0 by MHRD, Government of India [R-11/101/19]
The association of a putative bioactive alkaloid nitidine (NIT) with blood protein bovine hemoglobin (BHb) was investigated by employing various biophysical and molecular docking techniques. NIT binding to BHb was first characterized by hypochromic effect on the Soret band absorption of BHb from spectrophotometric studies. Spectrofluorimetric titration and unchanged fluorescence lifetime of BHb confirmed ground state complexation followed by the static nature of the emission quenching mechanism of the protein induced by NIT. Substantial conformational changes in the protein structure were established from circular dichroism study. Conformational perturbation results a lowering in the a-helical organization of the tetrameric protein structure. Thermodynamics of the binding suggest that the binding is exothermic with a favourable small positive entropy change and negative enthalpy change making a sense of electrostatic interaction as the major acting force. Experimentally calculated free energy change for the NIT-BHb interaction was found to be -7.50 kcal mol(-1) which is in well agreement to the theoretical docking energy value of -636 kcal mol(-1). AutoDock based molecular docking suggests the internal cavity of BHb as the preferred binding position of NIT. Overall this manuscript depicts consequences on the molecular interaction of NIT with BHb from structural and energetic standpoints providing a profound insight into protein-ligand association. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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