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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 60, 期 48, 页码 3714-3727出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.1c00692
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- Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- European Regional Development Fund, OP RDE, Project: Chemical biology for drugging undruggable targets (ChemBioDrug) [CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000729]
- Grant Agency of the Czech Republic [20-08772S]
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports from the Large Infrastructures for Research, Experimental Development, and Innovations project
- IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center [LM2015070]
- program Projects of Large Research, Development, and Innovations Infrastructures [CESNET LM2015042]
This study examined the substrate specificity of four bacterial dinucleotide synthases and synthesized 24 3'3'CDNs. The prepared heterodimeric 3'3'CDNs showed better binding to STING and similar or better potency compared to bacterial 3'3'CDNs. Computational chemistry methods were used to analyze the interaction free energies between STING and CDNs, revealing promising correlations between computed and experimental results.
The 3'-5', 3'-5' cyclic dinucleotides (3'3'CDNs) are bacterial second messengers that can also bind to the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) adaptor protein in vertebrates and activate the host innate immunity. Here, we profiled the substrate specificity of four bacterial dinucleotide synthases from Vibrio cholerae (DncV), Bacillus thuringiensis (btDisA), Escherichia coli (dgcZ), and Thermotoga maritima (tDGC) using a library of 33 nucleoside-5'-triphosphate analogues and then employed these enzymes to synthesize 24 3'3'CDNs. The STING affinity of CDNs was evaluated in cell-based and biochemical assays, and their ability to induce cytokines was determined by employing human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Interestingly, the prepared heterodimeric 3'3'CDNs bound to the STING much better than their homodimeric counterparts and showed similar or better potency than bacterial 3'3'CDNs. We also rationalized the experimental findings by in-depth STING-CDN structure-activity correlations by dissecting computed interaction free energies into a set of well-defined and intuitive terms. To this aim, we employed state-of-the-art methods of computational chemistry, such as quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations, and complemented the computed results with the {STING:3'3'c-di-ara-AMP} X-ray crystallographic structure. QM/MM identified three outliers (mostly homodimers) for which we have no clear explanation of their impaired binding with respect to their heterodimeric counterparts, whereas the R-2 = 0.7 correlation between the computed Delta G(int_ref)' and experimental Delta T-m's for the remaining ligands has been very encouraging.
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