Issue 39, 2019

Understanding the selectivity of inhibitors toward PI4KIIIα and PI4KIIIβ based molecular modeling

Abstract

Type III phosphatidylinositol 4 kinases (PI4KIIIs) are essential enzymes that are related to the replication of multiple RNA viruses. Understanding the interaction mechanisms of molecular compounds with the alpha and beta isoforms of PI4KIII (PI4KIIIα and PI4KIIIβ) is of significance in the development of inhibitors that can bind to these two enzymes selectively. In this work, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and binding free energy calculations were combined to investigate the binding modes of seven selected compounds to PI4KIIIα and PI4KIIIβ. Analyses based on MD trajectories provide detailed interaction mechanisms of these compounds with PI4KIIIα and PI4KIIIβ at the atomic level, and indicate that the selectivity of these compounds is mainly due to the structural difference of the binding pockets. It is expected that the detailed binding information found in this study can provide useful help for the structure-based design of selective inhibitors toward PI4KIIIα and PI4KIIIβ.

Graphical abstract: Understanding the selectivity of inhibitors toward PI4KIIIα and PI4KIIIβ based molecular modeling

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Jun 2019
Accepted
13 Sep 2019
First published
18 Sep 2019

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019,21, 22103-22112

Understanding the selectivity of inhibitors toward PI4KIIIα and PI4KIIIβ based molecular modeling

S. Tian, J. Zeng, X. Liu, J. Chen, J. Z. H. Zhang and T. Zhu, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 22103 DOI: 10.1039/C9CP03598B

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