Molecular Simulations for Anti-amyloidogenic Effect of Flavonoid Myricetin Exerted against Alzheimer?ˉs ￥a-Amyloid Fibrils Formation

摘要

Comparative molecular simulations were performed to establish molecular interaction and inhibitory effect of flavonoid myricetin on formation of amyloid fibris. For computational comparison, the conformational stability of myricetin with amyloid モ-peptide (Aモ) and モ-amyloid fibrils (fAモ) were traced with multiple molecular dynamics simulations (MD) using the CHARMM program from Monte Carlo docked structures. Simulations showed that the inhibition by myricetin involves binding of the flavonoid to fAモ rather than Aモ. Even in MD simulations over 5 ns at 300 K, myricetin/fAモ complex remained stable in compact conformation for multiple trajectories. In contrast, myricetin/Aモ complex mostly turned into the dissociated conformation during the MD simulations at 300 K. These multiple MD simulations provide a theoretical basis for the higher inhibitory effect of myricetin on fibrillogenesis of fAモ relative to Aモ . Significant binding between myricetin and fAモ observed from the computational simulations clearly reflects the previous experimental results in which only fAモ had bound to the myricetin molecules.