期刊
CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
卷 33, 期 7, 页码 3488-3491出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.04.004
关键词
Enzyme inhibition; Electron transfer; Thioredoxin reductase 1; Gold clusters; Molecular dynamics; Density functional theory
资金
- National Science Foundation of China [21727817, U2067214, 11621505, 31971311]
- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2020YFA0710700]
The study reveals that gold clusters can inhibit the activity of TrxR1 in tumor cells by interacting with the Cys189 site in TrxR1, disrupting the electron transfer pathway between TrxR1 and Trx.
Thioredoxin reductase 1 (TrxR1) is over activity in tumor cell to maintain their redox balance. Although gold clusters have great potential in antitumor drug as they could well inhibit TrxR1, the molecular mechanism has not been disclosed yet. In this work, we revealed gold clusters can well inhibit the activity of TrxR1 in lung tumor cells and further disclosed the inhibition mechanism by using computational simulation methods. We firstly inferred the binding sites of gold in the hydrophobic cavities on TrxR1. The simulation results show that the gold ion (released from Au cluster) interact with -SH of Cys189 in TrxR1, this greatly increase the distance between the C-terminal redox center of TrxR1 and the Trx redox center, thereby destroy the electron transfer pathway between them. Our electron transfer destroying mechanism is different from the previous hypothesis that gold binds to the Sec498 of TrxR1 which has never been proved by experimental and theory studies. This work provides a new understanding of the gold clusters to inhibit TrxR1 activity. (C) 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society and Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.
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