Determination of ligand-MurB interactions by isothermal denaturation: application as a secondary assay to complement high throughput screening.

J Biomol Screen

Structural and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacia Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI 49001, USA.

Published: February 2002

We used a temperature-jump isothermal denaturation procedure with various methods of detection to evaluate the quality of putative inhibitors of MurB discovered by high-throughput screening. Three optical methods of detection-ultraviolet hyperchromicity of absorbance, fluorescence of bound dyes, and circular dichroism-as well as differential scanning calorimetry were used to dissect the effects of two chemical compounds and a natural substrate on the enzyme. The kinetics of the denaturation process and binding of the compounds detected by quenching of flavin fluorescence were used to quantitate the dose dependencies of the ligand effects. We found that the first step in the denaturation of MurB is the rapid loss of flavin from the active site and that the two chemical inhibitors appeared to destabilize the interaction of the cofactor with the enzyme but stabilize the global unfolding. The kinetics of the denaturation process as well as the loss of flavin fluorescence on binding established that both compounds had nanomolar affinities for the enzyme. We showed that coupling of the various detection methods with isothermal denaturation yields a powerful regimen to provide analytical data for assessing inhibitor specificity for a protein target.

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