Analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of ESKAPE pathogens
Background The rapid increase in antibiotic resistance by various bacterial pathogens underlies the significance of developing new therapies and exploring different drug targets. A fraction of bacterial pathogens abbreviated as ESKAPE by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control have be...
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| description | Background The rapid increase in antibiotic resistance by various bacterial pathogens underlies the significance of developing new therapies and exploring different drug targets. A fraction of bacterial pathogens abbreviated as ESKAPE by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control have been considered a major threat due to the rise in nosocomial infections. Here, we compared putative drug binding pockets of twelve essential and mostly conserved metabolic enzymes in numerous bacterial pathogens including those of the ESKAPE group and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The comparative analysis will provide guidelines for the likelihood of transferability of the inhibitors from one species to another. Methods Nine bacterial species including six ESKAPE pathogens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis along with Mycobacterium smegmatis and Eschershia coli, two non-pathogenic bacteria, have been selected for drug binding pocket analysis of twelve essential enzymes. The amino acid sequences were obtained from Uniprot, aligned using ICM v3.8-4a and matched against the Pocketome encyclopedia. We used known co-crystal structures of selected target enzyme orthologs to evaluate the location of their active sites and binding pockets and to calculate a matrix of pairwise sequence identities across each target enzyme across the different species. This was used to generate sequence maps. Results High sequence identity of enzyme binding pockets, derived from experimentally determined co-crystallized structures, was observed among various species. Comparison at both full sequence level and for drug binding pockets of key metabolic enzymes showed that binding pockets are highly conserved (sequence similarity up to 100%) among various ESKAPE pathogens as well as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Enzymes orthologs having conserved binding sites may have potential to interact with inhibitors in similar way and might be helpful for design of similar class of inhibitors for a particular species. The derived pocket alignments and distance-based maps provide guidelines for drug discovery and repurposing. In addition they also provide recommendations for the relevant model bacteria that may be used for initial drug testing. Discussion Comparing ligand binding sites through sequence identity calculation could be an effective approach to identify conserved orthologs as drug binding pockets have shown higher level of conservation among various species. By using this approach we could avoid the problems associated with full sequence comparison. We identified essential metabolic enzymes among ESKAPE pathogens that share high sequence identity in their putative drug binding pockets (up to 100%), of which known inhibitors can potentially antagonize these identical pockets in the various species in a similar manner. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4d53fd17f59415fa6bfb02e5ffaac602023-12-03T06:46:55ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ2167-83592017-09-015e376510.7717/peerj.3765Analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of ESKAPE pathogensSadia Naz0Tony Ngo1Umar Farooq2Ruben Abagyan3Department of Chemistry, COMSATS Intitute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, PakistanSkaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States of AmericaDepartment of Chemistry, COMSATS Intitute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, PakistanSkaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, United States of AmericaBackground The rapid increase in antibiotic resistance by various bacterial pathogens underlies the significance of developing new therapies and exploring different drug targets. A fraction of bacterial pathogens abbreviated as ESKAPE by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control have been considered a major threat due to the rise in nosocomial infections. Here, we compared putative drug binding pockets of twelve essential and mostly conserved metabolic enzymes in numerous bacterial pathogens including those of the ESKAPE group and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The comparative analysis will provide guidelines for the likelihood of transferability of the inhibitors from one species to another. Methods Nine bacterial species including six ESKAPE pathogens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis along with Mycobacterium smegmatis and Eschershia coli, two non-pathogenic bacteria, have been selected for drug binding pocket analysis of twelve essential enzymes. The amino acid sequences were obtained from Uniprot, aligned using ICM v3.8-4a and matched against the Pocketome encyclopedia. We used known co-crystal structures of selected target enzyme orthologs to evaluate the location of their active sites and binding pockets and to calculate a matrix of pairwise sequence identities across each target enzyme across the different species. This was used to generate sequence maps. Results High sequence identity of enzyme binding pockets, derived from experimentally determined co-crystallized structures, was observed among various species. Comparison at both full sequence level and for drug binding pockets of key metabolic enzymes showed that binding pockets are highly conserved (sequence similarity up to 100%) among various ESKAPE pathogens as well as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Enzymes orthologs having conserved binding sites may have potential to interact with inhibitors in similar way and might be helpful for design of similar class of inhibitors for a particular species. The derived pocket alignments and distance-based maps provide guidelines for drug discovery and repurposing. In addition they also provide recommendations for the relevant model bacteria that may be used for initial drug testing. Discussion Comparing ligand binding sites through sequence identity calculation could be an effective approach to identify conserved orthologs as drug binding pockets have shown higher level of conservation among various species. By using this approach we could avoid the problems associated with full sequence comparison. We identified essential metabolic enzymes among ESKAPE pathogens that share high sequence identity in their putative drug binding pockets (up to 100%), of which known inhibitors can potentially antagonize these identical pockets in the various species in a similar manner.https://peerj.com/articles/3765.pdfESKAPE PathogensSequence alignmentIdentity maps |
| spellingShingle | Sadia Naz Tony Ngo Umar Farooq Ruben Abagyan Analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of ESKAPE pathogens PeerJ ESKAPE Pathogens Sequence alignment Identity maps |
| title | Analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of ESKAPE pathogens |
| title_full | Analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of ESKAPE pathogens |
| title_fullStr | Analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of ESKAPE pathogens |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of ESKAPE pathogens |
| title_short | Analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of ESKAPE pathogens |
| title_sort | analysis of drug binding pockets and repurposing opportunities for twelve essential enzymes of eskape pathogens |
| topic | ESKAPE Pathogens Sequence alignment Identity maps |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/3765.pdf |
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