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Published on: August 14, 2019
Binding of flavonoids to yeast aldehyde dehydrogenase: a molecular mechanism and computational approach
Nicoleta Cazacu1, Diana L Stan1, Raluca Târcă1
1Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, Măgurele, Ilfov, Romania.
Abstract:
The interaction of three flavonoids, apigenin, fisetin and quercetin with yeast aldehyde dehydrogenase, ALDH was studied by spectroscopic and molecular docking methods. A combination of both static and dynamic processes interaction mechanism for the binding of flavonoids with ALDH was found. The interaction takes place with moderate binding and the interaction was driven by hydrophobic contacts. The microenvironments of the fluorescent amino acids changed upon flavonoids binding. The distances between ALDH and flavonoids determined by Förster Resonant Energy Transfer (FRET) confirmed the results obtained by fluorescence. The structure of ALDH against thermal denaturation was stabilized by apigenin and destabilized by fisetin and quercetin. Molecular docking simulation showed that all flavonoids bind to the same site of ALDH and confirmed the moderate binding straight found in fluorescence.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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