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KMID : 0578320090280050447
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Molecules and Cells
2009 Volume.28 No. 5 p.447 ~ p.453
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Development of inhibitors against TraR quorum-sensing system in Agrobacterium tumefaciens by molecular modeling of the ligand-receptor interaction
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Kim Cheol-Jin
Kim Jae-Eun
Park Hyung-Yeon
Park Hee-Jin
Kim Chan-Kyung
Yoon Je-Yong
Lee Joon-Hee
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Abstract
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The quorum sensing (QS) inhibitors that antagonize TraR, a receptor protein for N-3-oxo-octanoyl-L-homoserine lactones (3-oxo-C8-HSL), a QS signal of Agrobacterium tumefaciens were developed. The structural analogues of 3-oxo-C8-HSL were designed by in silico molecular modeling using SYBYL packages, and synthesized by the solid phase organic synthesis (SPOS) method, where the carboxamide bond of 3-oxo-C8-HSL was replaced with a nicotinamide or a sulfonamide bond to make derivatives of N-nicotinyl-L-homoserine lactones or N-sulfonyl-L-homoserine lactones. The in vivo inhibitory activities of these compounds against QS signaling were assayed using reporter systems and compared with the estimated binding energies from the modeling study. This comparison showed fairly good correlation, suggesting that the in silico interpretation of ligand-receptor structures can be a valuable tool for the pre-design of better competitive inhibitors. In addition, these inhibitors also showed anti-biofilm activities against Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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KEYWORD
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acyl-homoserine lactones, binding energies (docking score), FlexX docking study, N-nicotinyl-L-homoserine lactones, N-sulfonyl-L-homoserine lactones, quorum-sensing inhibitor, TraR
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