A possible therapeutic potential of quercetin through inhibition of μ-calpain in hypoxia induced neuronal injur y:a molecular dynamics simulation study
Anand Kumar Pandey
Swet Chand Shukla
Pallab Bhattacharya
Ranjana Patnaik
摘要：The neuroprotective property of quercetin is well reported against hypoxia and ischemia in past stud-ies. This property of quercetin lies in its antioxidant property with blood-brain barrier permeability and anti-inflammatory capabilities.μ-Calpain, a calcium ion activated intracellular cysteine protease causes serious cellular insult, leading to cell death in various pathological conditions including hypoxia and isch-emic stroke. Hence, it may be considered as a potential drug target for the treatment of hypoxia induced neuronal injury. As the inhibitory property ofμ-calpain is yet to be explored in details, hence, in the present study, we investigated the interaction of quercetin withμ-calpain through a molecular dynamics simula-tion study as a tool through clarifying the molecular mechanism of such inhibition and determining the probable sites and modes of quercetin interaction with theμ-calpain catalytic domain. In addition, we also investigated the structure-activity relationship of quercetin withμ-calpain. Afifnity binding of quercetin withμ-calpain had a value of–28.73 kJ/mol and a Ki value of 35.87μM that may be a probable reason to lead to altered functioning ofμ-calpain. Hence, quercetin was found to be an inhibitor ofμ-calpain which might have a possible therapeutic role in hypoxic injury.
机标关键词：therapeutic potentialsimulation studymolecular mechanismmolecular dynamicscysteine proteasecatalytic domainneuronal injurydrug target
论文发表日期：2016-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：7( 1247-1253 )
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