Visualizing drug binding interactions using microcrystal electron diffraction.
Commun Biol
; 3(1): 417, 2020 07 31.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-32737395
Visualizing ligand binding interactions is important for structure-based drug design and fragment-based screening methods. Rapid and uniform soaking with potentially reduced lattice defects make small macromolecular crystals attractive targets for studying drug binding using microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED). However, so far no drug binding interactions could unambiguously be resolved by electron diffraction alone. Here, we use MicroED to study the binding of a sulfonamide inhibitor to human carbonic anhydrase isoform II (HCA II). We show that MicroED data can efficiently be collected on a conventional transmission electron microscope from thin hydrated microcrystals soaked with the clinical drug acetazolamide (AZM). The data are of high enough quality to unequivocally fit and resolve the bound inhibitor. We anticipate MicroED can play an important role in facilitating in-house fragment screening for drug discovery, complementing existing methods in structural biology such as X-ray and neutron diffraction.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Carbonic Anhydrase II
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Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
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Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
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Acetazolamide
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Commun Biol
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Sweden
Country of publication:
United kingdom