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    Mutated form (G52E) of inactive diphtheria toxin CRM197: molecular simulations clearly display effect of the mutation to NAD binding
    (Taylor & Francis Inc, 2016) Salmas, Ramin Ekhteiari; Mestanoglu, Mert; Unlu, Ayhan; Yurtsever, Mine; Durdagi, Serdar
    Mutated form (G52E) of diphtheria toxin (DT) CRM197 is an inactive and nontoxic enzyme. Here, we provided a molecular insight using comparative molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to clarify the influence of a single point mutation on overall protein and active-site loop. Post-processing MD analysis (i.e. stability, principal component analysis, hydrogen-bond occupancy, etc.) is carried out on both wild and mutated targets to investigate and to better understand the mechanistic differences of structural and dynamical properties on an atomic scale especially at nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) binding site when a single mutation (G52E) happens at the DT. In addition, a docking simulation is performed for wild and mutated forms. The docking scoring analysis and docking poses results revealed that mutant form is not able to properly accommodate the NAD molecule.
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    Virtual screening of small molecules databases for discovery of novel PARP-1 inhibitors: combination of in silico and in vitro studies
    (Taylor & Francis Inc, 2017) Salmas, Ramin Ekhteiari; Unlu, Ayhan; Bektas, Muhammet; Yurtsever, Mine; Mestanoglu, Mert; Durdagi, Serdar
    Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) enzyme has critical roles in DNA replication repair and recombination. Thus, PARP-1 inhibitors play an important role in the cancer therapy. In the current study, we have performed combination of in silico and in vitro studies in order to discover novel inhibitors against PARP-1 target. Structure-based virtual screening was carried out for an available small molecules database. A total of 257,951 ligands from Otava database were screened at the binding pocket of PARP-1 using high-throughput virtual screening techniques. Filtered structures based on predicted binding energy results were then used in more sophisticated molecular docking simulations (i.e. Glide/standard precision, Glide/XP, induced fit docking - IFD, and quantum mechanics polarized ligand docking - QPLD). Potential high binding affinity compounds that are predicted by molecular simulations were then tested by in vitro methods. Computationally proposed compounds as PARP-1 inhibitors (Otava Compound Codes: 7111620047 and 7119980926) were confirmed by in vitro studies. In vitro results showed that compounds 7111620047 and 7119980926 have IC50 values of 0.56 and 63M against PARP-1 target, respectively. The molecular mechanism analysis, free energy perturbation calculations using long multiple molecular dynamics simulations for the discovered compounds which showed high binding affinity against PARP-1 enzyme, as well as structure-based pharmacophore development (E-pharmacophore) studies were also studied.