title: Yeast hexokinase inhibitors designed from the 3-D enzyme structure rebuilding.
abstract: This work describes a search for hexokinase inhibitors based on the interactions analysis at the active site of the X-ray resolved o-tolulyl-glucosamine-hexokinase (OTG-HK) complex structure. As the actual enzyme sequence was unknown when the X-ray structure was made (only 30% homology), the structure of the complex was rebuilt by modelling on the X-ray structure frame which allowed residues in close vicinity to the inhibitor to be defined, particularly Glu249 and Gln278. Compounds with inhibitor-bearing groups able to interact with these residues were synthesized and assayed. Some of them revealed strong affinities, in the Km range for glucose. Kinetic analysis of their behaviour towards glucose and ATP together with spectroscopic studies using NMR, allowed the determination of the corresponding inhibition patterns and provided complementary information on HK.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Chimie Organique Biologique, IMRCP UMR-CNRS 5623, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France. willson@iris.ups-tlse.fr
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Willson
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Alric
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perie
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Sanejouand
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D015195:Drug Design; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D005944:Glucosamine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006593:Hexokinase / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011487:Protein Conformation; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D006593:Hexokinase; D005944:Glucosamine