Identifying potential inhibitors of biofilm-antagonistic proteins to promote biofilm formation: a virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations approach

Molecular Diversity - Tập 26 - Trang 2135-2147 - 2021
Mayur Mukhi1, A. S. Vishwanathan1
1WATER Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthi, India

Tóm tắt

Microbial biofilms play a critical role in environmental biotechnology and associated applications. Biofilm production can be enhanced by inhibiting the function of proteins that negatively regulate their formation. With this objective, an in silico approach was adopted to identify competitive inhibitors of eight biofilm-antagonistic proteins, namely AbrB and SinR (from Bacillus subtilis) and AmrZ, PDE (EAL), PslG, RetS, ShrA and TpbA (from Pseudomonas aeruginosa). Fifteen inhibitors that structurally resembled the natural ligand of each protein were shortlisted using ligand-based and structure-based virtual screening. The top four inhibitors obtained from molecular docking using Autodock Vina were further docked using SwissDock and DOCK 6.9 to obtain a consensus hit for each protein based on different scoring functions. Further analysis of the protein–ligand complexes revealed that these top inhibitors formed significant non-covalent interactions with their respective protein binding sites. The eight protein-ligand complexes were then subjected to molecular dynamics simulations for 30 ns using GROMACS. RMSD and radius of gyration values of 0.1–0.4 nm and 1.0–3.5 nm, respectively, along with hydrogen bond formation throughout the trajectory indicated that all the complexes remained stable, compact and intact during the simulation period. Binding energy values between –20 and –77 kJ/mol obtained from MM-PBSA calculations further confirmed the high affinities of the eight inhibitors for their respective receptors. The outcome of this study holds great promise to enhance biofilms that are central to biotechnological processes associated with microbial electrochemical technologies, wastewater treatment, bioremediation and the industrial production of value-added products.

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