Dissecting a novel allosteric mechanism of cruzain: A computer-aided approach.

ABSTRACT: Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, a neglected infection affecting millions of people in tropical regions. There are several chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of this disease, but most of them are highly toxic and generate resistance. Currently, the development of allosteric inhibitors constitutes a promising research field, since it can improve the accessibility to more selective and less toxic medicines. To date, the allosteric drugs prediction is a state-of-the-art topic in rational structure-based computational design. In this work, a simulation strategy was developed for computational discovery of allosteric inhibitors, and it was applied to cruzain, a promising target and the major cysteine protease of T. cruzi. Molecular dynamics simulations, binding

SUBMITTER: Hernandez Alvarez L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347273 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature