Role of Hydrophobic Interactions in Binding <i>S</i>-(<i>N</i>-Aryl/Alkyl-<i>N</i>-hydroxy- carbamoyl)glutathiones to the Active Site of the Antitumor Target Enzyme Glyoxalase I
作者:Avinash Kalsi、Malcolm J. Kavarana、Tianfen Lu、Dale L. Whalen、Diana S. Hamilton、Donald J. Creighton
DOI:10.1021/jm000160l
日期:2000.10.1
Hydrophobic interactions play an important role in binding S-(N-aryl/alkyl-N-hydroxycarbamoyl)glutathiones to the active sites of human, yeast, and Pseudomonas putida glyoxalase I, as the log K-i values for these mechanism-based competitive inhibitors decrease linearly with increasing values of the hydrophobicity constants (pi) of the N-aryl/alkyl substituents. Hydrophobic interactions also help to optimize polar interactions between the enzyme and the glutathione derivatives, given that the K-i value for S-(N-hydroxycarbamoyl)glutathione (pi = 0) with the human enzyme is 35-fold larger than the interpolated value for this compound obtained from the log K-i versus pi plot. Computational studies, in combination with published X-ray crystallographic measurements, indicate that human glyoxalase I binds the syn-conformer of S-(N-aryl-N-hydroxycarbamoyl)glutathione in which the N-aryl substituents are in their lowest-energy conformations. These studies provide both an experimental and a conceptual framework for developing better inhibitors of this antitumor target enzyme.