Scan-find-scan-model: discrete site-targeted suppressor design strategy for amyloid-beta
Title | Scan-find-scan-model: discrete site-targeted suppressor design strategy for amyloid-beta |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2022 |
Authors | Bhagavatula, H, Sarkar, A, Santra, B, Das, A |
Journal | ACS Chemical Neuroscience |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 14 |
Pagination | 2191-2208 |
Date Published | JUL |
Type of Article | Article |
ISSN | 1948-7193 |
Keywords | configurational misfoldability, drug developability, inherent frustration, potential aggregability, sequence-based mutability, target specificity |
Abstract | Alzheimer's disease is undoubtedly the most well-studied ranks at the top in terms of getting attention from the scientific community for structural property-based characterization. Even after decades of extensive research, there is existing volatility in terms of understanding and hence the effective tackling procedures against the disease that arises due to the lack of knowledge of both specific targetand site-specific drugs. Here, we develop a multidimensional approach based on the characterization of the common static-dynamic-thermodynamic trait of the monomeric protein, which efficiently identifies a small target sequence that contains an inherent tendency to misfold and consequently aggregate. The robustness of the identification of the target sequence comes with an abundance of a priori knowledge about the length and sequence of the target and hence guides toward effective designing of the target-specific drug with a very low probability of bottleneck and failure. Based on the target sequence information, we further identified a specific mutant that showed the maximum potential to act as a destabilizer of the monomeric protein as well as enormous success as an aggregation suppressor. We eventually tested the drug efficacy by estimating the extent of modulation of binding affinity existing within the fibrillar form of the A beta protein due to a single-point mutation and hence provided a proof of concept of the entire protocol. |
DOI | 10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00272 |
Type of Journal (Indian or Foreign) | Foreign |
Impact Factor (IF) | 5.780 |
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