Screening and Identification of a Novel Anti-tuberculosis Compound That Targets Deoxyuridine 5'-Triphosphate Nucleotidohydrolase

Copyright © 2021 Zhang, Zhang, Chen, Qiao, Han, Lin, Si and Jiang..

Tuberculosis (TB) is still a threat to humans worldwide. The rise of drug-resistant TB strains has escalated the need for developing effective anti-TB agents. Deoxyuridine 5'-triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase (dUTPase) is essential for thymidylate biosynthesis to maintain the DNA integrity. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, dUTPase provides the sole source for thymidylate biosynthesis, which also has the specific five-residue loop and the binding pockets absent in human dUTPase. Therefore, dUTPase has been regarded as a promising anti-TB drug target. Herein, we used a luminescence-based dUTPase assay to search for the inhibitors target M. tuberculosis dUTPase (Mt-dUTPase) and identified compound F0414 as a potent Mt-dUTPase inhibitor with an IC50 of 0.80 ± 0.09 μM. F0414 exhibited anti-TB activity with low cytotoxicity. Molecular docking model and site-directed mutation experiments revealed that P79 was the key residue in the interaction of Mt-dUTPase and F0414. Moreover, F0414 was shown to have stronger binding with Mt-dUTPase than with Mt-P79A-dUTPase by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) detection. Interestingly, F0414 exhibited insensitivity and weak directly binding on human dUTPase compared with that on Mt-dUTPase. All the results highlight that F0414 is the first compound reported to have anti-TB activity by inhibiting Mt-dUTPase, which indicates the potential application in anti-TB therapy.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

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Frontiers in microbiology - 12(2021) vom: 01., Seite 757914

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Hongjuan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ying [VerfasserIn]
Qiao, Luyao [VerfasserIn]
Han, Yanxing [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Si, Shuyi [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Jian-Dong [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-tuberculosis
DUTPase
High-throughput screening
Inhibitor
Journal Article
Molecular docking

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Date Revised 30.10.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fmicb.2021.757914

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM332459381