: Drug binding to human serum albumin (HSA) significantly affects in vivo drug transport and biological activity. To gain insight into the binding mechanism of the two B-Raf tyrosine kinase inhibitors dabrafenib and vemurafenib to HSA, in this work, we adopted a combined strategy based on fluorescence spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), circular dichroism (CD), and molecular simulations. Both anticancer drugs are found to bind spontaneously and with a 1:1 stoichiometry within the same binding pocket, located in Sudlow's site II (subdomain IIIA) of the protein with comparable affinity and without substantially perturbing the protein secondary structure. However, the nature of each drug-protein interactions is distinct: whereas the formation of the dabrafenib/HSA complex is more entropically driven, the formation of the alternative vemurafenib/HSA assembly is prevalently enthalpic in nature. Kinetic analysis also indicates that the association rate is similar for the two drugs, whereas the residence time of vemurafenib within the HSA binding pocket is somewhat higher than that determined for the alternative B-Raf inhibitor.

Binding of the B-Raf Inhibitors Dabrafenib and Vemurafenib to Human Serum Albumin: A Biophysical and Molecular Simulation Study

Russi, Maria;Marson, Domenico;Laurini, Erik
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Pricl, Sabrina
2022-01-01

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: Drug binding to human serum albumin (HSA) significantly affects in vivo drug transport and biological activity. To gain insight into the binding mechanism of the two B-Raf tyrosine kinase inhibitors dabrafenib and vemurafenib to HSA, in this work, we adopted a combined strategy based on fluorescence spectroscopy, isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), circular dichroism (CD), and molecular simulations. Both anticancer drugs are found to bind spontaneously and with a 1:1 stoichiometry within the same binding pocket, located in Sudlow's site II (subdomain IIIA) of the protein with comparable affinity and without substantially perturbing the protein secondary structure. However, the nature of each drug-protein interactions is distinct: whereas the formation of the dabrafenib/HSA complex is more entropically driven, the formation of the alternative vemurafenib/HSA assembly is prevalently enthalpic in nature. Kinetic analysis also indicates that the association rate is similar for the two drugs, whereas the residence time of vemurafenib within the HSA binding pocket is somewhat higher than that determined for the alternative B-Raf inhibitor.
2022
18-apr-2022
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