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Identification of Compounds That Inhibit the Binding of Keap1a/Keap1b Kelch DGR Domain With Nrf2 ETGE/DLG Motifs in Zebrafish

Identification of Compounds That Inhibit the Binding of Keap1a/Keap1b Kelch DGR Domain With Nrf2 ETGE/DLG Motifs in Zebrafish

Azhwar Raghunath, Raju Nagarajan, Kiruthika Sundarraj, Kavipriya Palanisamy, Ekambaram Perumal

Basic Clin Pharmacol Toxicol. 2019 Sep;125(3):259-270.

PMID: 30861618

Abstract:

The Keap1-Nrf2-ARE system serves as a premier defence mechanism to curb oxidative stress, which remains as one of the major causes of ageing and pathogenesis in various diseases. Nrf2 is the principal master regulator of the cellular defence system, and its activation remains the prospective therapeutic approach against chronic diseases. One of the recent strategies is to disrupt Keap1-Nrf2 protein-protein interaction (PPI) that alters the docking of Keap1 with Nrf2 by compounds occupying a position in the Keap1 blocking the interface with Nrf2. In this study, we made an attempt to identify the compounds with anticancer, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to disrupt Keap1a/b-Nrf2 PPI through in silico molecular docking in zebrafish. The phylogenetic analysis of Keap1 proteins revealed the existence of orthologous Keap1-Nrf2-ARE system in lower vertebrates that includes zebrafish. The DGR domains of zebrafish Keap1a and Keap1b were modelled with Modeller 9.19 using Keap1 of Mus musculus (PDB ID:5CGJ) as template. Based on the docking calculations, top hit compounds were identified to disrupt both Keap1a and Keap1b interaction with Nrf2 which include quercetin 3,4'-diglucoside, flavin adenine dinucleotide disodium salt hydrate, salvianolic acid A, tunicamycin and esculin. The LC50 of esculin in 3 dpf zebrafish larvae is 5 mmol/L, and the qRT-PCR results showed that esculin significantly increased the transcription of Nrf2 target genes-Gstpi, Nqo1, Hmox1a and Prdx1 in 3 dpf zebrafish larvae. These potential hits could serve as safer Nrf2 activators due to their non-covalent disruption of Keap1-Nrf2 PPI and be developed into efficacious preventive/therapeutic agents for various diseases.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	CAS Number	Price
ALP531759-A	Esculin hydrate	531-75-9 (anhydrous)	Price
ALP84366814	Flavin adenine dinucleotide disodium salt hydrate	84366-81-4 (anhydrous)	Price
ALP96574015	Salvianolic acid A hydrate	96574-01-5 (anhydrous)	Price

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