Abstract
Chemical chaperone therapy is a strategy for restoring the activities of mutant lysosomal hydrolases. This therapy involves chemical compounds binding to the dysfunctional enzymes. The chemical chaperones for lysosomal hydrolases are anticipated to stabilize folding of target enzymes by binding at neutral pH and rescuing enzyme activities by dissociation in acidic conditions after transport to lysosome. However, the molecular basis describing the mechanism of action of chemical chaperones has not been analysed sufficiently. Here we present results derived from molecular dynamics simulations showing that the binding free energy between human ?-glucosidase and its known chemical chaperone, N-octyl-?-valienamine (NOV), is lower at pH 7 than at pH 5. This observation is consistent with the hypothetical activity of chemical chaperones. The pH conditions were represented as differences in the protonation states of ionizable residues which were determined from predicted pKa values. The binding free energy change is negatively correlated to the number of hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) formed between GLU235, the acid/base catalyst of the enzyme, and the N atom of NOV. At pH 7, NOV is inserted further into the active site than at pH 5. Consequently, this provides an increase in the number of H-bonds formed. Thus, we conclude that the dissociation of NOV from ?-glucosidase at pH 5 occurs due to an increase in the binding free energy change caused by protonation of several residues which decreases the number of H-bonds formed between NOV and the enzyme.
Highlights
Dysfunctional lysosomal hydrolases activities trigger accumulation of waste products that lead to a variety of severe human diseases
Since an molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of the NNOV-enzyme complex provided a distorted NNOV structure, NNBV was employed as an alternative ligand
We focused on the correlation between the binding free energy changes and the number of hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) between GLU235 and the N atom of N-octyl- -valienamine (NOV)
Summary
Dysfunctional lysosomal hydrolases activities trigger accumulation of waste products that lead to a variety of severe human diseases. -galactosidase (Boustany et al, 1993) and -glucosidase(Amaral et al, 2000), respectively. -glucosidase, which catalyzes the cleavage of the -glucoside bond of sugar chains under acidic conditions in the lysosome, can lead to the accumulation of glucosylceramide (Figure 1A). (Suzuki, 2006; Suzuki, 2008; Suzuki et al, 2007) Some of these mutant enzymes do not lose their activity completely, the proteins are degraded and fail to be transported into the lysosome. The absence of -glucosidases in the lysosome is considered to be the dominant reason for the accumulation of glycolipids rather than a decrease in catalytic activity of the enzyme. In 1995, Okumiya et al reported that galactose restores mutant -galactosidase activity (Okumiya et al, 1995b)
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