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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
卷 23, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23084078
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albumin; cumin components; cuminol; fluorescence; molecular docking; aldehyde and alcohol
资金
- King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [RSP2021/54]
The interaction between the plasma protein human serum albumin (HSA) and two monoterpenes in cumin oil, cuminaldehyde and cuminol, was studied. Both compounds were found to affect the UV absorption profile and fluorescence intensity of HSA through a static binding mechanism dominated by hydrophobic and hydrogen bonding/Van der Waals forces. The binding site for both compounds was identified as drug binding site 1 in subdomain IIA of HSA.
The interaction of the important plasma protein, human serum albumin (HSA), with two monoterpenes found in cumin oil, i.e., cuminaldehyde (4-isopropylbenzaldehyde) and cuminol (4-isopropylbenzyl alcohol), was studied in this paper. Both experimental and computational methods were utilized to understand the mechanism of binding. The UV absorption profile of HSA changes in the presence of both cuminaldehyde and cuminol, due to the interaction between HSA with both monoterpenes. The intrinsic fluorescence intensity of HSA was also quenched on the sequential addition of both ligands, due to change in the microenvironment of the fluorophore present in the former. Quenching of HSA by cuminaldehyde was much higher in comparison to that in the presence of cuminol. Fluorescence quenching data were analyzed using modified Stern-Volmer and Lineweaver-Burk methods, which suggested that the binding mechanism was of a static type for both ligands. In both cases, the binding was favored by the domination of hydrophobic as well as hydrogen bonding/Van der Waals forces. Both ligands partially unfolded the secondary structure of HSA, although the effect of cuminaldehyde was more pronounced, as compared to cuminol. The preferred binding site of cuminaldehyde and cuminol inside HSA was also the same; namely, drug binding site 1, located in subdomain IIA. The study showed that cuminaldehyde binds strongly with albumin as compared to its alcohol counterpart, which is due to the more hydrophobic nature of the former.
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