Identification of human IKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part I): modeling of the IKK-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.

<h4>Background</h4>Their large scaffold diversity and properties, such as structural complexity and drug similarity, form the basis of claims that natural products are ideal starting points for drug design and development. Consequently, there has been great interest in determining whethe...

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Autores principales: Esther Sala, Laura Guasch, Justyna Iwaszkiewicz, Miquel Mulero, Maria-Josepa Salvadó, Montserrat Pinent, Vincent Zoete, Aurélien Grosdidier, Santiago Garcia-Vallvé, Olivier Michielin, Gerard Pujadas
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6e2af70bae44479cbe1f505beba0d5452021-11-18T06:58:19ZIdentification of human IKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part I): modeling of the IKK-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0016903https://doaj.org/article/6e2af70bae44479cbe1f505beba0d5452011-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21390216/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203<h4>Background</h4>Their large scaffold diversity and properties, such as structural complexity and drug similarity, form the basis of claims that natural products are ideal starting points for drug design and development. Consequently, there has been great interest in determining whether such molecules show biological activity toward protein targets of pharmacological relevance. One target of particular interest is hIKK-2, a serine-threonine protein kinase belonging to the IKK complex that is the primary component responsible for activating NF-κB in response to various inflammatory stimuli. Indeed, this has led to the development of synthetic ATP-competitive inhibitors for hIKK-2. Therefore, the main goals of this study were (a) to use virtual screening to identify potential hIKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin that compete with ATP and (b) to evaluate the reliability of our virtual-screening protocol by experimentally testing the in vitro activity of selected natural-product hits.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>We thus predicted that 1,061 out of the 89,425 natural products present in the studied database would inhibit hIKK-2 with good ADMET properties. Notably, when these 1,061 molecules were merged with the 98 synthetic hIKK-2 inhibitors used in this study and the resulting set was classified into ten clusters according to chemical similarity, there were three clusters that contained only natural products. Five molecules from these three clusters (for which no anti-inflammatory activity has been previously described) were then selected for in vitro activity testing, in which three out of the five molecules were shown to inhibit hIKK-2.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>We demonstrated that our virtual-screening protocol was successful in identifying lead compounds for developing new inhibitors for hIKK-2, a target of great interest in medicinal chemistry. Additionally, all the tools developed during the current study (i.e., the homology model for the hIKK-2 kinase domain and the pharmacophore) will be made available to interested readers upon request.Esther SalaLaura GuaschJustyna IwaszkiewiczMiquel MuleroMaria-Josepa SalvadóMontserrat PinentVincent ZoeteAurélien GrosdidierSantiago Garcia-VallvéOlivier MichielinGerard PujadasPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 6, Iss 2, p e16903 (2011)
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Esther Sala
Laura Guasch
Justyna Iwaszkiewicz
Miquel Mulero
Maria-Josepa Salvadó
Montserrat Pinent
Vincent Zoete
Aurélien Grosdidier
Santiago Garcia-Vallvé
Olivier Michielin
Gerard Pujadas
Identification of human IKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part I): modeling of the IKK-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.
description <h4>Background</h4>Their large scaffold diversity and properties, such as structural complexity and drug similarity, form the basis of claims that natural products are ideal starting points for drug design and development. Consequently, there has been great interest in determining whether such molecules show biological activity toward protein targets of pharmacological relevance. One target of particular interest is hIKK-2, a serine-threonine protein kinase belonging to the IKK complex that is the primary component responsible for activating NF-κB in response to various inflammatory stimuli. Indeed, this has led to the development of synthetic ATP-competitive inhibitors for hIKK-2. Therefore, the main goals of this study were (a) to use virtual screening to identify potential hIKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin that compete with ATP and (b) to evaluate the reliability of our virtual-screening protocol by experimentally testing the in vitro activity of selected natural-product hits.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>We thus predicted that 1,061 out of the 89,425 natural products present in the studied database would inhibit hIKK-2 with good ADMET properties. Notably, when these 1,061 molecules were merged with the 98 synthetic hIKK-2 inhibitors used in this study and the resulting set was classified into ten clusters according to chemical similarity, there were three clusters that contained only natural products. Five molecules from these three clusters (for which no anti-inflammatory activity has been previously described) were then selected for in vitro activity testing, in which three out of the five molecules were shown to inhibit hIKK-2.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>We demonstrated that our virtual-screening protocol was successful in identifying lead compounds for developing new inhibitors for hIKK-2, a target of great interest in medicinal chemistry. Additionally, all the tools developed during the current study (i.e., the homology model for the hIKK-2 kinase domain and the pharmacophore) will be made available to interested readers upon request.
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author Esther Sala
Laura Guasch
Justyna Iwaszkiewicz
Miquel Mulero
Maria-Josepa Salvadó
Montserrat Pinent
Vincent Zoete
Aurélien Grosdidier
Santiago Garcia-Vallvé
Olivier Michielin
Gerard Pujadas
author_facet Esther Sala
Laura Guasch
Justyna Iwaszkiewicz
Miquel Mulero
Maria-Josepa Salvadó
Montserrat Pinent
Vincent Zoete
Aurélien Grosdidier
Santiago Garcia-Vallvé
Olivier Michielin
Gerard Pujadas
author_sort Esther Sala
title Identification of human IKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part I): modeling of the IKK-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.
title_short Identification of human IKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part I): modeling of the IKK-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.
title_full Identification of human IKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part I): modeling of the IKK-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.
title_fullStr Identification of human IKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part I): modeling of the IKK-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.
title_full_unstemmed Identification of human IKK-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part I): modeling of the IKK-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.
title_sort identification of human ikk-2 inhibitors of natural origin (part i): modeling of the ikk-2 kinase domain, virtual screening and activity assays.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2011
url https://doaj.org/article/6e2af70bae44479cbe1f505beba0d545
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