Insight to pyrazinamide resistance inMycobacterium tuberculosisby molecular docking |
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Authors: | Amirudeen Nusrath Unissa Nagamiah Selvakumar Sameer Hassan |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Mycobacteriology, Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Mayor V. R. Ramanathan Road, Chetput, Chennai 600 031, Tamil Nadu, India;2.Department of Mycobacteriology, TRC, ICMR, Mayor V. R. Ramanathan Road, Chetput, Chennai 600 031, Tamil Nadu, India;3.Department of Biomedical Informatics Centre, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Mayor V. R. Ramanathan Road, Chetput, Chennai 600 031, Tamil Nadu, India |
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Abstract: | Pyrazinamide (PZA) - an important drug in the anti-tuberculosis therapy, activated by an enzyme Pyrazinamidase (PZase). The basis of PZA
resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis was owing to mutation in pncA gene coding for PZase. Homology modeling of PZase was performed
using software Discovery Studio (DS) 2.0 based on the crystal structure of the PZase from Pyrococcus horikoshii (PDB code 1im5), in this study.
The model comprises of one sheet with six parallel strands and seven helices with the amino acids Asp8, Asp49, Trp68, Lys96, Ala134, Thr135
and Cys138 at the active site. Five mutants were generated with Gly at position 8, Thr at position 96, Arg at position 104, Tyr and Ser at position
138. The Wild-type (WT) and five mutant models were docked with PZA. The results indicate that the mutants Lys96Thr, Ser104Arg Asp8Gly
and Cys138Tyr may contribute to higher level drug resistance than Cys138Ser. These models provide the first in-silico evidence for the binding
interaction of PZA with PZase and form the basis for rationalization of PZA resistance in naturally occurring pncA mutant strains of M.
tuberculosis. |
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Keywords: | Mycobacterium tuberculosis PZA resistance PZase mutants docking |
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