计算机辅助的金属蛋白设计与改造研究进展

金属蛋白是一类含有金属离子的蛋白的统称,具有特殊的催化活性,在生物体中发挥着重要作用,其结构与功能的关系已经得到了较为充分的研究。在此基础上,通过模拟已知金属蛋白的活性位点,利用计算机辅助设计的方法可以人工设计得到具有特定结构和功能的金属蛋白。本文综述了近期计算机辅助金属蛋白设计与改造领域的研究进展,概括了引入金属离子结合位点和改造蛋白活性的一般规律,总结了计算机辅助设计的优势以及目前存在的问题和挑战,并展望了此领域未来发展的方向和可能的突破点。

Computational Screening of Novel Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Kinase-1 （MEK1） Inhibitors by Docking and Scoring

The mitogen-activated protein kinase （MAPK） cell signal transduction pathways play a key role in determining the survival of cells. If these pathways can be controlled, they will prohibit the proliferation of cancer cells. To attain this goal, the authors utilize many drugs to interact with mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase-1 （MEK1） in MAPK, and use computer aided drug design （CADD） to analyze the ligand activities of proteins in MEKL The results show that in these drugs, the aromatic group in the terminal of the protein and the PHE209 will induce the stacking force, which is highly related to the actual activities of these drugs.

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of sulfonamide flavone derivatives as potential 20S proteasome inhibitors

A new series of sulfonamide flavone derivatives are designed as non-covalent inhibitors of proteasome assisted with computer-aided drug design （CADD）. The desired compounds were synthesized successfully and the biological evaluation was subsequently accomplished. The results showed negligible improvement from our lead compound （IC50 for β5 subunit was 14.0 μM）. Thus, these flavone derivatives might be improved as potential 20S proteasome inhibitors.