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  • MALT1 is a crucial protein involved in immune responses, and its unusual signaling is linked to various diseases, including cancer, making it a target for new therapies.
  • The study aimed to identify plant-based small molecules that could bind to MALT1 using computational methods, screening 34 compounds for their effectiveness.
  • Cyanidin emerged as a promising allosteric inhibitor of MALT1, showing better binding and stability than the control drug thioridazine, but further testing is necessary to confirm its effectiveness in treating cancer and related diseases.

Article Abstract

Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1 (MALT1) is the only human paracaspase, that serves as an adaptor protein and controls substantial genes expressed in the activation, proliferation of lymphocyte, and immune reactions by triggering the IKK/NF-kB signaling pathway. However, unusual MALT1-mediated NF-kB signaling pathway has been identified in multiple diseases like cancer, therefore making MALT1 a promising therapeutic target. There are scanty numbers of MALT1 inhibitors, thus the need to discover more compounds with less or no toxicity issue, that are cheap and pharmacologically efficient is of pertinence. Hence, our present study was to identify phyto-small molecules that could bind the allosteric interface of MALT1 using in silico methods. Total of 34 plant molecules were selected and screened for druglikeness, after which they were docked via Maestro 11.1 against the allosteric site of MALT1. The molecule with a binding score (kcal/mol) better than the control drug was subjected to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of 100 ns via Desmond, free energy perturbations, principal component and Pearson correlation analyses. Our findings from this computational study presents cyanidin (-8.822 kcal/mol) as better binder to the allosteric site of MALT1 based on the molecular docking and pharmacokinetic profiling than thioridazine. Similarly, cyanidin-MALT1 complex showed significant stability and exhibiting contacts with critical amino acid residues in the site of interest than thioridazine-MALT1 complex. Hence, cyanidin is a potential allosteric inhibitor of MALT1. However, an urgent need for in vitro and in vivo validations is required to ascertain the efficacy of cyanidin in the fight against cancer and other MALT1-related diseases.

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