Structural Determinants of the Binding and Activation of Estrogen Receptor α by Phenolic Thieno[2,3‐<i>d</i>]pyrimidines
作者:Vamshikrishna Reddy Sammeta、Brian M. Anderson、John D. Norris、Chad D. Torrice、Carstyn Joiner、Shubin Liu、Haoxi Li、Konstantin I. Popov、Sean W. Fanning、Donald P. McDonnell、Timothy M. Willson
DOI:10.1002/hlca.202300097
日期:2023.9
Synthetic, structural, and computational approaches were used to solve the puzzle as to how a phenolic nonsteroidal estrogen 1 with only a single H-bond to its receptor was more potent than an isomer 2 which formed an intricate network of H-bonds. Synthesis of a series of substituted phenols revealed that pKa was not a determinant of estrogenic activity. First-principles calculation also failed to
使用合成、结构和计算方法来解决这样的难题:仅与其受体具有单个氢键的酚类非甾体雌激素1为何比形成复杂氢键网络的异构体2更有效。一系列取代酚的合成表明,pKa并不是雌激素活性的决定因素。第一性原理计算也未能解释1和2活性的差异。分子动力学表明,与2相比,1形成了更稳定的受体复合物,这可能解释了尽管与蛋白质形成的明显氢键较少,但其活性却增加了。