期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
卷 644, 期 1-3, 页码 138-145出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2010.07.001
关键词
Diet polyphenol; Docking; Flavonoid; Molecular dynamics; Zymography
资金
- SECyT-UNC [N2162/06, N269/08, 08-X625]
- FONCyT [BID 1728/0C-AR PICT N 06-01207, 06-25667, 07-01650]
- CONICET [PIP 05-06 N2 5421]
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated an inverse association between the consumption of flavonoidrich diets and the risk of atherosclerosis. In addition, an increased activity of the matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) has been implicated in the development and progression of atherosclerotic lesions. Even though the relationship between flavonoid chemical structure and the inhibitory property on MMP activity has been established, the molecular mechanisms of this inhibition are still unknown. Herein, we first evaluated the inhibitory effect of quercetin on MMP-9 activity by zymography and a fluorescent gelatin dequenching assay, secondly we determined the most probable sites and modes of quercetin interaction with the MMP-9 catalytic domain by using molecular modelling techniques, and finally, we investigated the structure-activity relationship of the inhibitory effect of flavonoids on MMP-9 activity. We show that quercetin inhibited MMP9 activity with an IC50 value of 22 AM. By using docking and molecular dynamics simulations, it was shown that quercetin interacted in the Si' subsite of the MMP-9 active site. Moreover, the structure-activity relationship analysis demonstrated that flavonoid R3'-OH and R4'-OH substitutions were relevant to the inhibitory property against MMP-9 activity. In conclusion, our data constitute the first evidence about the quercetin and MMP-9 interaction, suggesting a mechanism to explain the inhibitory effect of the flavonoid on the enzymatic activity of MMP-9, which provides an additional molecular target for the cardioprotective activity of quercetin. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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