GRID and docking analyses reveal a molecular basis for flavonoid inhibition of src-family kinase activity

Wright, B., Watson, K. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9987-8539, McGuffin, L. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4501-4767, Lovegrove, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7633-9455 and Gibbins, J. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0372-5352 (2015) GRID and docking analyses reveal a molecular basis for flavonoid inhibition of src-family kinase activity. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, 26 (11). pp. 1156-1165. ISSN 0955-2863 doi: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2015.05.004

Abstract/Summary

Flavonoids reduce cardiovascular disease risk through anti-inflammatory, anti-coagulant and anti-platelet actions. One key flavonoid inhibitory mechanism is blocking kinase activity that drives these processes. Flavonoids attenuate activities of kinases including phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K), Fyn, Lyn, Src, Syk, PKC, PIM1/2, ERK, JNK, and PKA. X-ray crystallographic analyses of kinase-flavonoid complexes show that flavonoid ring systems and their hydroxyl substitutions are important structural features for their binding to kinases. A clearer understanding of structural interactions of flavonoids with kinases is necessary to allow construction of more potent and selective counterparts. We examined flavonoid (quercetin, apigenin and catechin) interactions with Src-family kinases (Lyn, Fyn and Hck) applying the Sybyl docking algorithm and GRID. A homology model (Lyn) was used in our analyses to demonstrate that high quality predicted kinase structures are suitable for flavonoid computational studies. Our docking results revealed potential hydrogen bond contacts between flavonoid hydroxyls and kinase catalytic site residues. Identification of plausible contacts indicated that quercetin formed the most energetically stable interactions, apigenin lacked hydroxyl groups necessary for important contacts, and the non-planar structure of catechin could not support predicted hydrogen bonding patterns. GRID analysis using a hydroxyl functional group supported docking results. Based on these findings, we predicted that quercetin would inhibit activities of Src-family kinases with greater potency than apigenin and catechin. We validated this prediction using in vitro kinase assays. We conclude that our study can be used as a basis to construct virtual flavonoid interaction libraries to guide drug discovery using these compounds as molecular templates.

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Divisions	Interdisciplinary centres and themes > Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR) Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Biomedical Sciences
Publisher	Elsevier
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