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Kuravsky M, Kelly C, Redfield C, Shammas SL. The transition state for coupled folding and binding of a disordered DNA binding domain resembles the unbound state. Nucleic Acids Res 2024:gkae794. [PMID: 39315703 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2024] [Revised: 08/22/2024] [Accepted: 09/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/25/2024] Open
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The basic zippers (bZIPs) are one of two large eukaryotic families of transcription factors whose DNA binding domains are disordered in isolation but fold into stable α-helices upon target DNA binding. Here, we systematically disrupt pre-existing helical propensity within the DNA binding region of the homodimeric bZIP domain of cAMP-response element binding protein (CREB) using Ala-Gly scanning and examine the impact on target binding kinetics. We find that the secondary structure of the transition state strongly resembles that of the unbound state. The residue closest to the dimerization domain is largely folded within both unbound and transition states; dimerization apparently propagates additional helical propensity into the basic region. The results are consistent with electrostatically-enhanced DNA binding, followed by rapid folding from the folded zipper outwards. Fly-casting theory suggests that protein disorder can accelerate binding. Interestingly however, we did not observe higher association rate constants for mutants with lower levels of residual structure in the unbound state.
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- Mikhail Kuravsky
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK
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DelRosso N, Suzuki PH, Griffith D, Lotthammer JM, Novak B, Kocalar S, Sheth MU, Holehouse AS, Bintu L, Fordyce P. High-throughput affinity measurements of direct interactions between activation domains and co-activators. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.08.19.608698. [PMID: 39229005 PMCID: PMC11370418 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.19.608698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/05/2024]
Abstract
Sequence-specific activation by transcription factors is essential for gene regulation1,2. Key to this are activation domains, which often fall within disordered regions of transcription factors3,4 and recruit co-activators to initiate transcription5. These interactions are difficult to characterize via most experimental techniques because they are typically weak and transient6,7. Consequently, we know very little about whether these interactions are promiscuous or specific, the mechanisms of binding, and how these interactions tune the strength of gene activation. To address these questions, we developed a microfluidic platform for expression and purification of hundreds of activation domains in parallel followed by direct measurement of co-activator binding affinities (STAMMPPING, for Simultaneous Trapping of Affinity Measurements via a Microfluidic Protein-Protein INteraction Generator). By applying STAMMPPING to quantify direct interactions between eight co-activators and 204 human activation domains (>1,500 K ds), we provide the first quantitative map of these interactions and reveal 334 novel binding pairs. We find that the metazoan-specific co-activator P300 directly binds >100 activation domains, potentially explaining its widespread recruitment across the genome to influence transcriptional activation. Despite sharing similar molecular properties (e.g. enrichment of negative and hydrophobic residues), activation domains utilize distinct biophysical properties to recruit certain co-activator domains. Co-activator domain affinity and occupancy are well-predicted by analytical models that account for multivalency, and in vitro affinities quantitatively predict activation in cells with an ultrasensitive response. Not only do our results demonstrate the ability to measure affinities between even weak protein-protein interactions in high throughput, but they also provide a necessary resource of over 1,500 activation domain/co-activator affinities which lays the foundation for understanding the molecular basis of transcriptional activation.
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Center for Biomolecular Condensates, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Center for Biomolecular Condensates, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Center for Biomolecular Condensates, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Center for Biomolecular Condensates, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Biophysics Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Biophysics Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Sarafan ChEM-H Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, CA, USA
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Holehouse AS, Kragelund BB. The molecular basis for cellular function of intrinsically disordered protein regions. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 2024; 25:187-211. [PMID: 37957331 PMCID: PMC11459374 DOI: 10.1038/s41580-023-00673-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 62.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
Abstract
Intrinsically disordered protein regions exist in a collection of dynamic interconverting conformations that lack a stable 3D structure. These regions are structurally heterogeneous, ubiquitous and found across all kingdoms of life. Despite the absence of a defined 3D structure, disordered regions are essential for cellular processes ranging from transcriptional control and cell signalling to subcellular organization. Through their conformational malleability and adaptability, disordered regions extend the repertoire of macromolecular interactions and are readily tunable by their structural and chemical context, making them ideal responders to regulatory cues. Recent work has led to major advances in understanding the link between protein sequence and conformational behaviour in disordered regions, yet the link between sequence and molecular function is less well defined. Here we consider the biochemical and biophysical foundations that underlie how and why disordered regions can engage in productive cellular functions, provide examples of emerging concepts and discuss how protein disorder contributes to intracellular information processing and regulation of cellular function.
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- Alex S Holehouse
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
- Center for Biomolecular Condensates, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA.
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- REPIN, Structural Biology and NMR Laboratory, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Gunasinghe KJ, Rahman T, Chee Wezen X. Unraveling the Behavior of Intrinsically Disordered Protein c-Myc: A Study Utilizing Gaussian-Accelerated Molecular Dynamics. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:2250-2262. [PMID: 38250404 PMCID: PMC10795134 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c05822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Revised: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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The protein c-Myc is a transcription factor that remains largely intrinsically disordered and is known to be involved in various biological processes and is overexpressed in various cancers, making it an attractive drug target. However, intrinsically disordered proteins such as c-Myc do not show funnel-like basins in their free-energy landscapes; this makes their druggability a challenge. For the first time, we propose a heterodimer model of c-Myc/Max in full length in this work. We used Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) simulations to explore the behavior of c-Myc and its various regions, including the transactivation domain (TAD) and the basic helix-loop-helix-leucine-zipper (bHLH-Zipper) motif in three different conformational states: (a) monomeric c-Myc, (b) c-Myc when bound to its partner protein, Max, and (c) when Max was removed after binding. We analyzed the GaMD trajectories using root-mean-square deviation (RMSD), radius of gyration, root-mean-square fluctuation, and free-energy landscape (FEL) calculations to elaborate the behaviors of these regions. The results showed that the monomeric c-Myc structure showed a higher RMSD fluctuation as compared with the c-Myc/Max heterodimer in the bHLH-Zipper motif. This indicated that the bHLH-Zipper motif of c-Myc is more stable when it is bound to Max. The TAD region in both monomeric and Max-bound states showed similar plasticity in terms of RMSD. We also conducted residue decomposition calculations and showed that the c-Myc and Max interaction could be driven mainly by electrostatic interactions and the residues Arg299, Ile403, and Leu420 seemed to play important roles in the interaction. Our work provides insights into the behavior of c-Myc and its regions that could support the development of drugs that target c-Myc and other intrinsically disordered proteins.
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- Department
of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1PD, United Kingdom
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- Faculty
of Engineering, Computing and Science, Swinburne
University of Technology Sarawak, Kuching 93350, Malaysia
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Herrera-Nieto P, Pérez A, De Fabritiis G. Binding-and-Folding Recognition of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein Using Online Learning Molecular Dynamics. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:3817-3824. [PMID: 37341654 PMCID: PMC10863933 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins participate in many biological processes by folding upon binding to other proteins. However, coupled folding and binding processes are not well understood from an atomistic point of view. One of the main questions is whether folding occurs prior to or after binding. Here we use a novel, unbiased, high-throughput adaptive sampling approach to reconstruct the binding and folding between the disordered transactivation domain of c-Myb and the KIX domain of the CREB-binding protein. The reconstructed long-term dynamical process highlights the binding of a short stretch of amino acids on c-Myb as a folded α-helix. Leucine residues, especially Leu298-Leu302, establish initial native contacts that prime the binding and folding of the rest of the peptide, with a mixture of conformational selection on the N-terminal region with an induced fit of the C-terminal.
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- Pablo Herrera-Nieto
- Computational
Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
(PRBB), C Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
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- Computational
Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
(PRBB), C Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
- Acellera
Labs, C Dr Trueta 183, 08005, Barcelona, Spain
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- Computational
Science Laboratory, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park
(PRBB), C Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
- Acellera
Ltd, Devonshire House
582, Stanmore Middlesex, HA7 1JS, United Kingdom
- Institució
Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluis Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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Evolutionary fine-tuning of residual helix structure in disordered proteins manifests in complex structure and lifetime. Commun Biol 2023; 6:63. [PMID: 36653471 PMCID: PMC9849366 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04445-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Transcription depends on complex networks, where folded hub proteins interact with intrinsically disordered transcription factors undergoing coupled folding and binding. For this, local residual structure, a prototypical feature of intrinsic disorder, is key. Here, we dissect the unexplored functional potential of residual structure by comparing structure, kinetics, and thermodynamics within the model system constituted of the DREB2A transcription factor interacting with the αα-hub RCD1-RST. To maintain biological relevance, we developed an orthogonal evolutionary approach for the design of variants with varying amounts of structure. Biophysical analysis revealed a correlation between the amount of residual helical structure and binding affinity, manifested in altered complex lifetime due to changed dissociation rate constants. It also showed a correlation between helical structure in free and bound DREB2A variants. Overall, this study demonstrated how evolution can balance and fine-tune residual structure to regulate complexes in coupled folding and binding, potentially affecting transcription factor competition.
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Malagrinò F, Diop A, Pagano L, Nardella C, Toto A, Gianni S. Unveiling induced folding of intrinsically disordered proteins - Protein engineering, frustration and emerging themes. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2021; 72:153-160. [PMID: 34902817 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2021.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Revised: 10/26/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) can be generally described as a class of proteins that lack a well-defined ordered structure in isolation at physiological conditions. Upon binding to their physiological ligands, IDPs typically undergo a disorder-to-order transition, which may or may not lead to the complete folding of the IDP. In this short review, we focus on some of the key findings pertaining to the mechanisms of such induced folding. In particular, first we describe the general features of the reaction; then, we discuss some of the most remarkable findings obtained from applying protein engineering in synergy with kinetic studies to induced folding; and finally, we offer a critical view on some of the emerging themes when considering the structural heterogeneity of IDPs vis-à-vis to their inherent frustration.
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- Francesca Malagrinò
- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari Del CNR, Sapienza Università, di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari Del CNR, Sapienza Università, di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari Del CNR, Sapienza Università, di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari Del CNR, Sapienza Università, di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari Del CNR, Sapienza Università, di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari Del CNR, Sapienza Università, di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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Jensen KS. Measuring and Analyzing Binding Kinetics of Coupled Folding and Binding Reactions Under Pseudo-First-Order Conditions. Methods Mol Biol 2021; 2141:629-650. [PMID: 32696381 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0524-0_32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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Many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) adopt a well-defined structure upon binding to their interaction partners. Kinetic characterization is a requirement for the investigation of the dynamics and mechanisms of these folding-upon-binding reactions. Here a protocol is described for the investigation of binding kinetics of bimolecular binding and folding reactions of IDPs to their ligand partner under pseudo-first-order conditions using stopped-flow mixing and fluorescence detection.
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- Kristine Steen Jensen
- Department for Biophysical Chemistry, Center for Molecular Protein Science, LTH, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
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Schnatwinkel J, Herrmann C. The interaction strength of an intrinsically disordered protein domain with its binding partner is little affected by very different cosolutes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:27903-27911. [PMID: 33284914 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03040f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A common feature of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) is a disorder-to-order transition upon binding to other proteins, which has been tied to multiple benefits, including accelerated association rates or binding with low affinity, yet high specificity. Given the balanced equilibrium concentrations of folded and unfolded state of an IDP we asked the question if changes in the chemical environment, such as the presence of osmolytes or crowding agents, have a strong influence on the interaction of an IDP. Here, we demonstrate the impact of cosolutes on the interaction of the intrinsically disordered transcription factor c-Myb and its binding partner, the kinase-inducible interaction domain (KIX) of the CREB-binding protein. Temperature jump relaxation kinetics and microscale thermophoresis were employed in order to quantify the rate constants and the binding affinity of the c-Myb/KIX complex, respectively, in the presence of various cosolutes. We find the binding free energy of the c-Myb/KIX complex only marginally modulated by cosolutes, whereas the enthalpy and entropy of the interaction are very sensitive to the respective solvent conditions. For different cosolutes we observe substantial changes in enthalpy, both favorable and unfavorable, which are going with entropy changes largely compensating the enthalpy effects in each case. These characteristics might reflect a potential mechanism by which c-Myb offsets changes in the physico-chemical environment to maintain a roughly unaltered binding affinity.
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- Jan Schnatwinkel
- Physical Chemistry I, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
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Kumar A, Kumar P, Giri R. Zika virus NS4A cytosolic region (residues 1–48) is an intrinsically disordered domain and folds upon binding to lipids. Virology 2020; 550:27-36. [DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2020.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2020] [Revised: 07/19/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Gadhave K, Gehi BR, Kumar P, Xue B, Uversky VN, Giri R. The dark side of Alzheimer's disease: unstructured biology of proteins from the amyloid cascade signaling pathway. Cell Mol Life Sci 2020; 77:4163-4208. [PMID: 31894361 PMCID: PMC11104979 DOI: 10.1007/s00018-019-03414-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2019] [Revised: 11/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a leading cause of age-related dementia worldwide. Despite more than a century of intensive research, we are not anywhere near the discovery of a cure for this disease or a way to prevent its progression. Among the various molecular mechanisms proposed for the description of the pathogenesis and progression of AD, the amyloid cascade hypothesis, according to which accumulation of a product of amyloid precursor protein (APP) cleavage, amyloid β (Aβ) peptide, induces pathological changes in the brain observed in AD, occupies a unique niche. Although multiple proteins have been implicated in this amyloid cascade signaling pathway, their structure-function relationships are mostly unexplored. However, it is known that two major proteins related to AD pathology, Aβ peptide, and microtubule-associated protein tau belong to the category of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), which are the functionally important proteins characterized by a lack of fixed, ordered three-dimensional structure. IDPs and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) play numerous vital roles in various cellular processes, such as signaling, cell cycle regulation, macromolecular recognition, and promiscuous binding. However, the deregulation and misfolding of IDPs may lead to disturbed signaling, interactions, and disease pathogenesis. Often, molecular recognition-related IDPs/IDPRs undergo disorder-to-order transition upon binding to their biological partners and contain specific disorder-based binding motifs, known as molecular recognition features (MoRFs). Knowing the intrinsic disorder status and disorder-based functionality of proteins associated with amyloid cascade signaling pathway may help to untangle the mechanisms of AD pathogenesis and help identify therapeutic targets. In this paper, we have used multiple computational tools to evaluate the presence of intrinsic disorder and MoRFs in 27 proteins potentially relevant to the amyloid cascade signaling pathway. Among these, BIN1, APP, APOE, PICALM, PSEN1 and CD33 were found to be highly disordered. Furthermore, their disorder-based binding regions and associated short linear motifs have also been identified. These findings represent important foundation for the future research, and experimental characterization of disordered regions in these proteins is required to better understand their roles in AD pathogenesis.
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- Kundlik Gadhave
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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- Department of Cell Biology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA.
- Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India.
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Gerlach GJ, Carrock R, Stix R, Stollar EJ, Ball KA. A disordered encounter complex is central to the yeast Abp1p SH3 domain binding pathway. PLoS Comput Biol 2020; 16:e1007815. [PMID: 32925900 PMCID: PMC7514057 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2020] [Revised: 09/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions are involved in a wide range of cellular processes. These interactions often involve intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and protein binding domains. However, the details of IDP binding pathways are hard to characterize using experimental approaches, which can rarely capture intermediate states present at low populations. SH3 domains are common protein interaction domains that typically bind proline-rich disordered segments and are involved in cell signaling, regulation, and assembly. We hypothesized, given the flexibility of SH3 binding peptides, that their binding pathways include multiple steps important for function. Molecular dynamics simulations were used to characterize the steps of binding between the yeast Abp1p SH3 domain (AbpSH3) and a proline-rich IDP, ArkA. Before binding, the N-terminal segment 1 of ArkA is pre-structured and adopts a polyproline II helix, while segment 2 of ArkA (C-terminal) adopts a 310 helix, but is far less structured than segment 1. As segment 2 interacts with AbpSH3, it becomes more structured, but retains flexibility even in the fully engaged state. Binding simulations reveal that ArkA enters a flexible encounter complex before forming the fully engaged bound complex. In the encounter complex, transient nonspecific hydrophobic and long-range electrostatic contacts form between ArkA and the binding surface of SH3. The encounter complex ensemble includes conformations with segment 1 in both the forward and reverse orientation, suggesting that segment 2 may play a role in stabilizing the correct binding orientation. While the encounter complex forms quickly, the slow step of binding is the transition from the disordered encounter ensemble to the fully engaged state. In this transition, ArkA makes specific contacts with AbpSH3 and buries more hydrophobic surface. Simulating the binding between ApbSH3 and ArkA provides insight into the role of encounter complex intermediates and nonnative hydrophobic interactions for other SH3 domains and IDPs in general.
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- Gabriella J. Gerlach
- Department of Chemistry, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
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Sharma N, Prosser O, Kumar P, Tuplin A, Giri R. Small molecule inhibitors possibly targeting the rearrangement of Zika virus envelope protein. Antiviral Res 2020; 182:104876. [PMID: 32783901 DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Revised: 07/04/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The recurrent public health threat imposed by Zika Virus (ZIKV) in various geographical areas necessitates the immediate development of antiviral compounds or vaccines. Flaviviral Envelope (E) proteins are essential for host-cell recognition and virion entry. Consequently, they represent an important target for antiviral therapy, with the aim of preventing viral spread during early stages of infection. Due to conformational rearrangement during entry, flavivirus E proteins present several alternative conformations as potential antiviral targets - for blocking entry or virus-host membrane fusion. We previously identified a conserved hydrophobic region, between DI/DIII of ZIKV E protein, with potential to act as an antiviral target. Here, we screened commercially available antiviral compound libraries against ZIKV E protein, using a structure-based drug discovery approach. The antiviral efficacy of the top ten screened compounds were experimentally validated for inhibition of ZIKV replication in Vero Cells. Compound F1065-0358 was observed to inhibit ZIKV replication with an IC50 of 14.0 μM. Ligand-protein complex molecular dynamic simulations confirmed the stability of ligand binding up to 100 ns. Together, results from this study indicate that F1065-0358 functions as a ZIKV virus inhibitor by interfering E protein conformational rearrangement. Furthermore, given that F1065-0358 interacts with highly conserved residues of E protein, this raises the potential for its efficacy against other pathogenic flaviviruses.
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- Nitin Sharma
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences and Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Kumar D, Mishra PM, Gadhave K, Giri R. Conformational dynamics of p53 N-terminal TAD2 region under different solvent conditions. Arch Biochem Biophys 2020; 689:108459. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2020.108459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Bhardwaj T, Saumya KU, Kumar P, Sharma N, Gadhave K, Uversky VN, Giri R. Japanese encephalitis virus - exploring the dark proteome and disorder-function paradigm. FEBS J 2020; 287:3751-3776. [PMID: 32473054 DOI: 10.1111/febs.15427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2020] [Revised: 04/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is one of the major causes of viral encephalitis all around the globe. Approximately 3 billion people in endemic areas are at risk of Japanese encephalitis. To develop a wholistic understanding of the viral proteome, it is important to investigate both its ordered and disordered proteins. However, the functional and structural significance of disordered regions in the JEV proteome has not been systematically investigated as of yet. To fill this gap, we used here a set of bioinformatics tools to analyze the JEV proteome for the predisposition of its proteins for intrinsic disorder and for the presence of the disorder-based binding regions (also known as molecular recognition features, MoRFs). We also analyzed all JEV proteins for the presence of the probable nucleic acid-binding (DNA and RNA) sites. The results of these computational studies are experimentally validated using JEV capsid protein as an illustrative example. In agreement with bioinformatic analysis, we found that the N-terminal region of the JEV capsid (residues 1-30) is intrinsically disordered. We showed that this region is characterized by the temperature response typical for highly disordered proteins. Furthermore, we have experimentally shown that this disordered N-terminal domain of a capsid protein has a noticeable 'gain-of-structure' potential. In addition, using DOPS liposomes, we demonstrated the presence of pronounced membrane-mediated conformational changes in the N-terminal region of JEV capsid. In our view, this disorder-centric analysis would be helpful for a better understanding of the JEV pathogenesis.
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- Taniya Bhardwaj
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.,Laboratory of New Methods in Biology, Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center 'Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences', Russia
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India
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Gadhave K, Kumar P, Kapuganti SK, Uversky VN, Giri R. Unstructured Biology of Proteins from Ubiquitin-Proteasome System: Roles in Cancer and Neurodegenerative Diseases. Biomolecules 2020; 10:E796. [PMID: 32455657 PMCID: PMC7278180 DOI: 10.3390/biom10050796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2020] [Revised: 05/17/2020] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The 26S proteasome is a large (~2.5 MDa) protein complex consisting of at least 33 different subunits and many other components, which form the ubiquitin proteasomal system (UPS), an ATP-dependent protein degradation system in the cell. UPS serves as an essential component of the cellular protein surveillance machinery, and its dysfunction leads to cancer, neurodegenerative and immunological disorders. Importantly, the functions and regulations of proteins are governed by the combination of ordered regions, intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) and molecular recognition features (MoRFs). The structure-function relationships of UPS components have not been identified completely; therefore, in this study, we have carried out the functional intrinsic disorder and MoRF analysis for potential neurodegenerative disease and anti-cancer targets of this pathway. Our report represents the presence of significant intrinsic disorder and disorder-based binding regions in several UPS proteins, such as extraproteasomal polyubiquitin receptors (UBQLN1 and UBQLN2), proteasome-associated polyubiquitin receptors (ADRM1 and PSMD4), deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs) (ATXN3 and USP14), and ubiquitinating enzymes (E2 (UBE2R2) and E3 (STUB1) enzyme). We believe this study will have implications for the conformation-specific roles of different regions of these proteins. This will lead to a better understanding of the molecular basis of UPS-associated diseases.
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- Kundlik Gadhave
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, VPO Kamand, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India; (K.G.); (P.K.); (S.K.K.)
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, VPO Kamand, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India; (K.G.); (P.K.); (S.K.K.)
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, VPO Kamand, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India; (K.G.); (P.K.); (S.K.K.)
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer’s Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA;
- Institute for Biological Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center “Pushchino Cientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Pushchino, 142290 Moscow, Russia
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, VPO Kamand, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India; (K.G.); (P.K.); (S.K.K.)
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Kumar D, Sharma N, Aarthy M, Singh SK, Giri R. Mechanistic Insights into Zika Virus NS3 Helicase Inhibition by Epigallocatechin-3-Gallate. ACS OMEGA 2020; 5:11217-11226. [PMID: 32455246 PMCID: PMC7241040 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c01353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Since 2007, repeated outbreaks of Zika virus (ZIKV) have affected millions of people worldwide and created a global health concern with major complications like microcephaly and Guillain Barre's syndrome. To date, there is not a single Zika-specific licensed drug present in the market. However, in recent months, several antiviral molecules have been screened against ZIKV. Among those, (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), a green tea polyphenol, has shown great virucidal potential against flaviviruses including ZIKV. The mechanistic understanding of EGCG-targeting viral proteins is not yet entirely deciphered except that little is known about its interaction with viral envelope protein and viral protease. We designed our current study to find inhibitory actions of EGCG against ZIKV NS3 helicase. NS3 helicase performs a significant role in viral replication by unwinding RNA after hydrolyzing NTP. We employed molecular docking and simulation approach and found significant interactions at the ATPase site and also at the RNA binding site. Further, the enzymatic assay has shown significant inhibition of NTPase activity with an IC50 value of 295.7 nM and Ki of 0.387 ± 0.034 μM. Our study suggests the possibility that EGCG could be considered as a prime backbone molecule for further broad-spectrum inhibitor development against ZIKV and other flaviviruses.
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- Deepak Kumar
- School
of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology
Mandi, VPO Kamand, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India
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- School
of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology
Mandi, VPO Kamand, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India
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- Department
of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling
Lab, Alagappa University, Science Block, Karaikudi 630003, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department
of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling
Lab, Alagappa University, Science Block, Karaikudi 630003, Tamilnadu, India
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- School
of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology
Mandi, VPO Kamand, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India
- BioX
Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh 175005, India
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Chu WT, Shammas SL, Wang J. Charge Interactions Modulate the Encounter Complex Ensemble of Two Differently Charged Disordered Protein Partners of KIX. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:3856-3868. [PMID: 32325001 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b01264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Disordered proteins play important roles in cell signaling and are frequently involved in protein-protein interactions. They also have a larger proportion of charged and polar residues than their folded counterparts. Here, we developed a structure-based model and applied molecular dynamics simulations to examine the presence and importance of electrostatic interactions in the binding processes of two differently charged intrinsically disordered ligands of the KIX domain of CBP. We observed non-native opposite-charged contacts in the encounter complexes for both ligands with KIX, and this may be a general feature of coupled folding and binding reactions. The ensemble of successful encounter complexes is a diverse set of structures, and in the case of the highly charged ligand, this ensemble was found to be malleable with respect to ionic strength. There are only minor differences between encounter complex ensembles for successful and unsuccessful collisions with no key interactions that appear to make the process far more productive. The energy landscape at this early stage in the process does not appear highly funneled. Strikingly we observed many native interactions that appear to reduce chances of an encounter complex being productive. Instead it appears that collectively non-native electrostatic interactions in the encounter complex increase the likelihood of productivity by holding the proteins together long enough for folding to take place. This mechanism is more effective for the more highly charged ligand.
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- Wen-Ting Chu
- State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P.R.China
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry & Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794, United States
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Folding and structural polymorphism of p53 C-terminal domain: One peptide with many conformations. Arch Biochem Biophys 2020; 684:108342. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2020.108342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2020] [Revised: 02/20/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Toto A, Malagrinò F, Visconti L, Troilo F, Pagano L, Brunori M, Jemth P, Gianni S. Templated folding of intrinsically disordered proteins. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:6586-6593. [PMID: 32253236 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.rev120.012413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Much of our current knowledge of biological chemistry is founded in the structure-function relationship, whereby sequence determines structure that determines function. Thus, the discovery that a large fraction of the proteome is intrinsically disordered, while being functional, has revolutionized our understanding of proteins and raised new and interesting questions. Many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) have been determined to undergo a disorder-to-order transition when recognizing their physiological partners, suggesting that their mechanisms of folding are intrinsically different from those observed in globular proteins. However, IDPs also follow some of the classic paradigms established for globular proteins, pointing to important similarities in their behavior. In this review, we compare and contrast the folding mechanisms of globular proteins with the emerging features of binding-induced folding of intrinsically disordered proteins. Specifically, whereas disorder-to-order transitions of intrinsically disordered proteins appear to follow rules of globular protein folding, such as the cooperative nature of the reaction, their folding pathways are remarkably more malleable, due to the heterogeneous nature of their folding nuclei, as probed by analysis of linear free-energy relationship plots. These insights have led to a new model for the disorder-to-order transition in IDPs termed "templated folding," whereby the binding partner dictates distinct structural transitions en route to product, while ensuring a cooperative folding.
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- Angelo Toto
- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, BMC Box 582, SE-75123 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy
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Martins IC, Santos NC. Intrinsically disordered protein domains in flavivirus infection. Arch Biochem Biophys 2020; 683:108298. [PMID: 32045581 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2020.108298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Revised: 02/03/2020] [Accepted: 02/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
Abstract
Intrinsically disordered protein regions are at the core of biological processes and involved in key protein-ligand interactions. The Flavivirus proteins, of viruses of great biomedical importance such as Zika and dengue viruses, exemplify this. Several proteins of these viruses have disordered regions that are of the utmost importance for biological activity. Disordered proteins can adopt several conformations, each able to interact with and/or bind to different ligands. In fact, such interactions can help stabilize a particular fold. Moreover, by being promiscuous in the number of target molecules they can bind to, these protein regions increase the number of functions that their small proteome (10 proteins) can achieve. A folding energy waterfall better describes the protein folding landscape of these proteins. A disordered protein can be thought as rolling down the folding energy cascade, in order "to fall, fold and function". This is the case of many viral protein regions, as seen in the flaviviruses proteome. Given their small size, flaviviruses are a good model system for understanding the role of intrinsically disordered protein regions in viral function. Finally, studying these viruses disordered protein regions will certainly contribute to the development of therapeutic approaches against such promising (yet challenging) targets.
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- Ivo C Martins
- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Yadav R, Selvaraj C, Aarthy M, Kumar P, Kumar A, Singh SK, Giri R. Investigating into the molecular interactions of flavonoids targeting NS2B-NS3 protease from ZIKA virus through in-silico approaches. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2020; 39:272-284. [PMID: 31920173 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1709546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Zika virus (ZIKV), belongs to the flavivirus genus and Flaviviridae family that associated with serious diseased conditions like microcephaly and other neurological disorders (Guillan-Barré syndrome). As there is no vaccine or therapies available against ZIKV to date. Hence, it is an unmet need to find potential drug candidates and target sites against Zika virus infection. NS2B-NS3 protease making an attractive target for therapeutic intervention in ZIKV infections because of its critical role in hydrolysis of a single polyprotein encoded by Zika virus. Recently, there are some experimental evidence about the flavonoids as Zika virus NS2B-NS3 protease inhibitors. However, molecular interaction between protease complex and inhibitors at atomic levels has not been explored. Here, we have taken the experimentally validated thirty-eight flavonoids inhibitors against NS2B-NS3 protease to examine the molecular interaction using molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations. We found out few flavonoids such as EGCG and its two derivatives, isoquercetin, rutin and sanggenon O showing interaction with catalytic triad (His51, Asp75, and Ser135) of the active site of NS2B-NS3 protease and found to be stable throughout the simulation. Therefore it is evident that interaction with the catalytic triad playing a vital role in the inhibition of the enzyme activity as a result inhibition of the virus propagation. However these compounds can be explored further for understanding the mechanism of action of these compounds targeting NS2B-NS3 protease for inhibition of Zika virus.
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- Rakhi Yadav
- School of Basic Science, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Science, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India.,Department of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling Lab, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling Lab, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India
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- School of Basic Science, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Science, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling Lab, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India
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- School of Basic Science, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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Folding perspectives of an intrinsically disordered transactivation domain and its single mutation breaking the folding propensity. Int J Biol Macromol 2019; 155:1359-1372. [PMID: 31733244 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.11.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2019] [Revised: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 11/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Transcriptional regulation is a critical facet of cellular development controlled by numerous transcription factors, among which are E-proteins (E2A, HEB, and E2-2) that play important roles in lymphopoiesis. For example, primary hematopoietic cells immortalisation is promoted by interaction of the conserved PCET motif consisting of the Leu-X-X-Leu-Leu (LXXLL) and Leu-Asp-Phe-Ser (LDFS) sequences of the transactivation domains (AD1) of E-proteins with the KIX domain of CBP/p300 transcriptional co-activators. Earlier, it was shown that the LXXLL motif is essential for the PCET-KIX interaction driven by the PCET helical transition. In this study, we analyzed the dehydration-driven gain of helicity in the conserved region (residues 11-28) of the AD1 domain of E-protein. Particularly, we showed that AD1 structure was dramatically affected by alcohols, but was insensitive to changes in pH or the presence of osmolytes sarcosine and taurine, or high polyethylene glycol (PEG) concentrations and DOPC Liposomes. These structure-forming effects of solvents were almost completely absent in the case of L21P AD1 mutant characterized by weakened interaction with KIX. This indicates that KIX interaction-induced AD1 ordering is driven by PCET motif dehydration. The L21P mutation-caused loss of molecular recognition function of AD1 is due to the mutation-induced disruption of the AD1 helical propensity.
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Yang J, Gao M, Xiong J, Su Z, Huang Y. Features of molecular recognition of intrinsically disordered proteins via coupled folding and binding. Protein Sci 2019; 28:1952-1965. [PMID: 31441158 PMCID: PMC6798136 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3718] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Revised: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
The sequence-structure-function paradigm of proteins has been revolutionized by the discovery of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs). In contrast to traditional ordered proteins, IDPs/IDRs are unstructured under physiological conditions. The absence of well-defined three-dimensional structures in the free state of IDPs/IDRs is fundamental to their function. Folding upon binding is an important mode of molecular recognition for IDPs/IDRs. While great efforts have been devoted to investigating the complex structures and binding kinetics and affinities, our knowledge on the binding mechanisms of IDPs/IDRs remains very limited. Here, we review recent advances on the binding mechanisms of IDPs/IDRs. The structures and kinetic parameters of IDPs/IDRs can vary greatly, and the binding mechanisms can be highly dependent on the structural properties of IDPs/IDRs. IDPs/IDRs can employ various combinations of conformational selection and induced fit in a binding process, which can be templated by the target and/or encoded by the IDP/IDR. Further studies should provide deeper insights into the molecular recognition of IDPs/IDRs and enable the rational design of IDP/IDR binding mechanisms in the future.
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- Jing Yang
- Department of Biological Engineering and Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education)Hubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical SciencesHubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
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- Department of Biological Engineering and Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education)Hubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical SciencesHubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
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- Department of Biological Engineering and Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education)Hubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical SciencesHubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
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- Department of Biological Engineering and Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education)Hubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical SciencesHubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
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- Department of Biological Engineering and Key Laboratory of Industrial Fermentation (Ministry of Education)Hubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical SciencesHubei University of TechnologyWuhanHubeiChina
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Garg A, Orru R, Ye W, Distler U, Chojnacki JE, Köhn M, Tenzer S, Sönnichsen C, Wolf E. Structural and mechanistic insights into the interaction of the circadian transcription factor BMAL1 with the KIX domain of the CREB-binding protein. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:16604-16619. [PMID: 31515273 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.009845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2019] [Revised: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The mammalian CLOCK:BMAL1 transcription factor complex and its coactivators CREB-binding protein (CBP)/p300 and mixed-lineage leukemia 1 (MLL1) critically regulate circadian transcription and chromatin modification. Circadian oscillations are regulated by interactions of BMAL1's C-terminal transactivation domain (TAD) with the KIX domain of CBP/p300 (activating) and with the clock protein CRY1 (repressing) as well as by the BMAL1 G-region preceding the TAD. Circadian acetylation of Lys537 within the G-region enhances repressive BMAL1-TAD-CRY1 interactions. Here, we characterized the interaction of the CBP-KIX domain with BMAL1 proteins, including the BMAL1-TAD, parts of the G-region, and Lys537 Tethering the small compound 1-10 in the MLL-binding pocket of the CBP-KIX domain weakened BMAL1 binding, and MLL1-bound KIX did not form a ternary complex with BMAL1, indicating that the MLL-binding pocket is important for KIX-BMAL1 interactions. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) models of BMAL1 and BMAL1:KIX complexes revealed that the N-terminal BMAL1 G-region including Lys537 forms elongated extensions emerging from the bulkier BMAL1-TAD:KIX core complex. Fitting high-resolution KIX domain structures into the SAXS-derived envelopes suggested that the G-region emerges near the MLL-binding pocket, further supporting a role of this pocket in BMAL1 binding. Additionally, mutations in the second CREB-pKID/c-Myb-binding pocket of the KIX domain moderately impacted BMAL1 binding. The BMAL1(K537Q) mutation mimicking Lys537 acetylation, however, did not affect the KIX-binding affinity, in contrast to its enhancing effect on CRY1 binding. Our results significantly advance the mechanistic understanding of the protein interaction networks controlling CLOCK:BMAL1- and CBP-dependent gene regulation in the mammalian circadian clock.
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- Archit Garg
- Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Ackermannweg 4, 55128 Mainz, Germany.,Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center of the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Immunology, University Medical Center of the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), Ackermannweg 4, 55128 Mainz, Germany .,Institute of Molecular Physiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Toto A, Troilo F, Visconti L, Malagrinò F, Bignon C, Longhi S, Gianni S. Binding induced folding: Lessons from the kinetics of interaction between N TAIL and XD. Arch Biochem Biophys 2019; 671:255-261. [PMID: 31326517 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2019.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/14/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) are a class of protein that exert their function despite lacking a well-defined three-dimensional structure, which is sometimes achieved only upon binding to their natural ligands. This feature implies the folding of IDPs to be generally coupled with a binding event, representing an interesting challenge for kinetic studies. In this review, we recapitulate some of the most important findings of IDPs binding-induced folding mechanisms obtained by analyzing their binding kinetics. Furthermore, by focusing on the interaction between the Measles virus NTAIL protein, a prototypical IDP, and its physiological partner, the X domain, we recapitulate the major theoretical and experimental approaches that were used to describe binding induced folding.
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- Angelo Toto
- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolećules Biologiques (AFMB), UMR7257, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Architecture et Fonction des Macromolećules Biologiques (AFMB), UMR7257, Marseille, France.
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- Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche "A. Rossi Fanelli" and Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari del CNR, Sapienza Università di Roma, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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Garg N, Kumar P, Gadhave K, Giri R. The dark proteome of cancer: Intrinsic disorderedness and functionality of HIF-1α along with its interacting proteins. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2019; 166:371-403. [PMID: 31521236 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2019.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The dark side of protein is the region (s) where molecular conformation is unknown. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) are the dark matter of biology due to inability to visualize them using standard structure elucidation technique such as X-ray crystallography due to lack in diffraction signal. IDPs are the functionally important class of proteins with entire protein or its parts lack ordered three-dimensional structure. Computational studies have predicted that nearly one-third of the human proteome is disordered, which gives the enormous flexibility and functional diversity to proteins. The conserved residues and elements in disordered proteins are critical for function and might be parts of peptide motifs or protein-protein interaction interfaces. For example, regions of proteins that are involved in disorder-based molecular recognition are known as molecular recognition features (MoRFs). Generally, MoRFs could undergo disorder to order transition or vice versa at interaction with specific partners. Hypoxia inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α) is a master transcriptional regulator involved in response to hypoxia, which is associated with many pathological conditions. Importantly, HIF-1α regulates various steps of cancer progression such as cell survival, tumor cell invasion, and metastasis. In this chapter, we have extensively analyzed the molecular recognition features and their relationship with disordered regions and associated structural islands of HIF-1α. We had also analyzed the disorderness and MoRFs of HIF-1α primary interaction partners that are enriched in IDPRs and MoRFs giving their role in protein-protein interaction and cancer regulation.
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- Neha Garg
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Gallagher EE, Song JM, Menon A, Mishra LD, Chmiel AF, Garner AL. Consideration of Binding Kinetics in the Design of Stapled Peptide Mimics of the Disordered Proteins Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4E-Binding Protein 1 and Eukaryotic Translation Initiation Factor 4G. J Med Chem 2019; 62:4967-4978. [PMID: 31033289 PMCID: PMC6679956 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Protein disorder plays a crucial role in signal transduction and is key for many cellular processes including transcription, translation, and cell cycle. Within the intrinsically disordered protein interactome, the α-helix is commonly used for binding, which is induced via a disorder-to-order transition. Because the targeting of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) remains an important challenge in medicinal chemistry, efforts have been made to mimic this secondary structure for rational inhibitor design through the use of stapled peptides. Cap-dependent mRNA translation is regulated by two disordered proteins, 4E-BP1 and eIF4G, that inhibit or stimulate the activity of the m7G cap-binding translation initiation factor, eIF4E, respectively. Both use an α-helical motif for eIF4E binding, warranting the investigation of stapled peptide mimics for manipulating eIF4E PPIs. Herein, we describe our efforts toward this goal, resulting in the synthesis of a cell-active stapled peptide for further development in manipulating aberrant cap-dependent translation in human diseases.
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- Erin E Gallagher
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy , University of Michigan , 1600 Huron Parkway, NCRC B520 , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Program in Chemical Biology , University of Michigan , 210 Washtenaw Avenue , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy , University of Michigan , 1600 Huron Parkway, NCRC B520 , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy , University of Michigan , 1600 Huron Parkway, NCRC B520 , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy , University of Michigan , 1600 Huron Parkway, NCRC B520 , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy , University of Michigan , 1600 Huron Parkway, NCRC B520 , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
- Program in Chemical Biology , University of Michigan , 210 Washtenaw Avenue , Ann Arbor , Michigan 48109 , United States
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Kumar A, Liang B, Aarthy M, Singh SK, Garg N, Mysorekar IU, Giri R. Hydroxychloroquine Inhibits Zika Virus NS2B-NS3 Protease. ACS OMEGA 2018; 3:18132-18141. [PMID: 30613818 PMCID: PMC6312647 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Zika virus is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus that causes devastating fetal outcomes in the context of maternal infection during pregnancy. An important target for drugs combatting Zika virus pathogenicity is NS2B-NS3 protease, which plays an essential role in hydrolysis and maturation of the flavivirus polyprotein. We identify hydroxychloroquine, a drug that already has approved uses in pregnancy, as a possible inhibitor of NS2B-NS3 protease by using a Food and Drug Administration-approved drug library, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulations. Further, to gain insight into its inhibitory potential toward NS2B-NS3 protease, we performed enzyme kinetic studies, which revealed that hydroxychloroquine inhibits protease activity with an inhibition constant (K i) of 92.34 ± 11.91 μM. Additionally, hydroxychloroquine significantly decreases Zika virus infection in placental cells.
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- Ankur Kumar
- Indian
Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175005, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Reproductive Health Sciences, and Department of
Pathology and Immunology, Washington University
School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, United
States
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- Department
of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling
Laboratory, Alagappa University, Science Block, Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department
of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling
Laboratory, Alagappa University, Science Block, Karaikudi 630003, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Indian
Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175005, Himachal Pradesh, India
- BioX Center, Indian Institute
of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175005, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Reproductive Health Sciences, and Department of
Pathology and Immunology, Washington University
School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, United
States
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- Indian
Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175005, Himachal Pradesh, India
- BioX Center, Indian Institute
of Technology Mandi, Mandi 175005, Himachal Pradesh, India
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Crabtree MD, Shammas SL. Stopped-Flow Kinetic Techniques for Studying Binding Reactions of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. Methods Enzymol 2018; 611:423-457. [PMID: 30471695 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2018.09.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins are abundant in signaling processes such as transcription. Suitable binding and unbinding rates of proteins with their partners are critical for allowing them to perform their biological roles. Understanding how these are achieved, and indeed designing strategies for intervening or modulating related biological processes, therefore requires kinetic studies. In this chapter, we describe stopped-flow-based methods for determining association and dissociation rate constants for pairs of macromolecular binding partners. We describe how to select the simplest appropriate model to describe the interaction, and highlight cases where it is possible to distinguish between induced fit and conformational selection binding mechanisms. Finally, we go on to describe methods for examining the role of electrostatic forces in binding processes, and for describing the transition state for binding processes that have folding associated with them.
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- Michael D Crabtree
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Henderson AR, Henley MJ, Foster NJ, Peiffer AL, Beyersdorf MS, Stanford KD, Sturlis SM, Linhares BM, Hill ZB, Wells JA, Cierpicki T, Brooks CL, Fierke CA, Mapp AK. Conservation of coactivator engagement mechanism enables small-molecule allosteric modulators. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:8960-8965. [PMID: 30127017 PMCID: PMC6130367 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1806202115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Transcriptional coactivators are a molecular recognition marvel because a single domain within these proteins, the activator binding domain or ABD, interacts with multiple compositionally diverse transcriptional activators. Also remarkable is the structural diversity among ABDs, which range from conformationally dynamic helical motifs to those with a stable core such as a β-barrel. A significant objective is to define conserved properties of ABDs that allow them to interact with disparate activator sequences. The ABD of the coactivator Med25 (activator interaction domain or AcID) is unique in that it contains secondary structural elements that are on both ends of the spectrum: helices and loops that display significant conformational mobility and a seven-stranded β-barrel core that is structurally rigid. Using biophysical approaches, we build a mechanistic model of how AcID forms binary and ternary complexes with three distinct activators; despite its static core, Med25 forms short-lived, conformationally mobile, and structurally distinct complexes with each of the cognate partners. Further, ternary complex formation is facilitated by allosteric communication between binding surfaces on opposing faces of the β-barrel. The model emerging suggests that the conformational shifts and cooperative binding is mediated by a flexible substructure comprised of two dynamic helices and flanking loops, indicating a conserved mechanistic model of activator engagement across ABDs. Targeting a region of this substructure with a small-molecule covalent cochaperone modulates ternary complex formation. Our data support a general strategy for the identification of allosteric small-molecule modulators of ABDs, which are key targets for mechanistic studies as well as therapeutic applications.
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- Andrew R Henderson
- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109;
- Program in Chemical Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Molecular Recognition Features in Zika Virus Proteome. J Mol Biol 2018; 430:2372-2388. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2017.10.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2017] [Revised: 10/18/2017] [Accepted: 10/18/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Aarthy M, Kumar D, Giri R, Singh SK. E7 oncoprotein of human papillomavirus: Structural dynamics and inhibitor screening study. Gene 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2018.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Dahal L, Kwan TOC, Shammas SL, Clarke J. pKID Binds to KIX via an Unstructured Transition State with Nonnative Interactions. Biophys J 2018; 113:2713-2722. [PMID: 29262364 PMCID: PMC5770965 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2017] [Revised: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Understanding the detailed mechanism of interaction of intrinsically disordered proteins with their partners is crucial to comprehend their functions in signaling and transcription. Through its interaction with KIX, the disordered pKID region of CREB protein is central in the transcription of cAMP responsive genes, including those involved in long-term memory. Numerous simulation studies have investigated these interactions. Combined with experimental results, these can provide valuable and comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms involved. Here, we probe the transition state of this interaction experimentally through analyzing the kinetic effect of mutating both interface and solvent exposed residues in pKID. We show that very few specific interactions between pKID and KIX are required in the initial binding process. Only a small number of weak interactions are formed at the transition state, including nonnative interactions, and most of the folding occurs after the initial binding event. These properties are consistent with computational results and also the majority of experimental studies of intrinsically disordered protein coupled folding and binding in other protein systems, suggesting that these may be common features.
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- Liza Dahal
- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Singh A, Kumar A, Uversky V, Giri R. Understanding the interactability of chikungunya virus proteinsviamolecular recognition feature analysis. RSC Adv 2018; 8:27293-27303. [PMID: 35539973 PMCID: PMC9083250 DOI: 10.1039/c8ra04760j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus that has an enveloped icosahedral capsid and is transmitted byAedessp. mosquitos.
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- Ankur Singh
- School of Basic Sciences
- Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
- Himachal Pradesh 175005
- India
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- School of Basic Sciences
- Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
- Himachal Pradesh 175005
- India
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute
- Morsani College of Medicine
- University of South Florida
- Tampa
- USA
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- School of Basic Sciences
- Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
- Himachal Pradesh 175005
- India
- BioX Centre
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Saglam AS, Wang DW, Zwier MC, Chong LT. Flexibility vs Preorganization: Direct Comparison of Binding Kinetics for a Disordered Peptide and Its Exact Preorganized Analogues. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:10046-10054. [PMID: 28992700 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b08486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Many intrinsically disordered proteins, which are prevalent in nature, fold only upon binding their structured partner proteins. Such proteins have been hypothesized to have a kinetic advantage over their folded, preorganized analogues in binding their partner proteins. Here we determined the effects of ligand preorganization on the kon for a biomedically important system: an intrinsically disordered p53 peptide ligand and the MDM2 protein receptor. Based on direct simulations of binding pathways, computed kon values for fully disordered and preorganized p53 peptide analogues were within error of each other, indicating little if any kinetic advantage to being disordered or preorganized for binding the MDM2 protein. We also examined the effects of increasing the concentration of MDM2 on the extent to which its mechanism of binding to the p53 peptide is induced fit vs conformational selection. Results predict that the mechanism is solely induced fit if the unfolded state of the peptide is more stable than its folded state; otherwise, the mechanism shifts from being dominated by conformational selection at low MDM2 concentration to induced fit at high MDM2 concentration. Taken together, our results are relevant to any protein binding process that involves a disordered peptide of a similar length that forms a single α-helix upon binding a partner protein. Such disorder-to-helix transitions are common among protein interactions of disordered proteins and are therefore of fundamental biological interest.
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- A S Saglam
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Drake University , Des Moines, Iowa 50311, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
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Huang Y, Gao M, Yang F, Zhang L, Su Z. Deciphering the promiscuous interactions between intrinsically disordered transactivation domains and the KIX domain. Proteins 2017; 85:2088-2095. [PMID: 28786199 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2017] [Revised: 07/14/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The kinase-inducible domain interacting (KIX) domain of the transcriptional coactivator CBP protein carries 2 isolated binding sites (designated as the c-Myb site and the MLL site) and is capable of binding numerous intrinsically disordered transactivation domains (TADs), including c-Myb and pKID via the c-Myb site, and MLL, E2A and c-Jun via the MLL site. In this study we compared the kinetics for binding of various disordered TADs to the KIX domain via computational biophysical analyses. We found that the binding rates are heavily affected by long-range electrostatic interactions. The basal rate constants for forming the encounter complexes are similar for different KIX binding peptides, favorable electrostatic interactions between the MLL site and the peptides result in greater association rates when peptides bind to the MLL site. FOXO3a and p53 TAD each contains 2 copies of KIX binding motif and each motif interacts with both the MLL site and the c-Myb site. Our kinetics studies suggest that binding of FOXO3a or p53 TAD to the KIX domain is via a sequential mechanism, where one KIX binding motif binds to the MLL site first and then the other KIX binding motif binds to the c-Myb site. Considering the promiscuous interactions between FOXO3a and KIX, and p53 TAD and KIX, electrostatic steering simplifies the binding mechanism. This study highlights the importance of long-range electrostatic interactions in molecular recognition process involving multi-motif intrinsically disordered proteins and promiscuous interactions.
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- Yongqi Huang
- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering (Ministry of Education), Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Industrial Fermentation, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering (Ministry of Education), Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Industrial Fermentation, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering (Ministry of Education), Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Industrial Fermentation, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering (Ministry of Education), Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Industrial Fermentation, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Institute of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering (Ministry of Education), Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.,Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Industrial Fermentation, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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Eukaryotic transcription factors: paradigms of protein intrinsic disorder. Biochem J 2017; 474:2509-2532. [DOI: 10.1042/bcj20160631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2017] [Revised: 04/19/2017] [Accepted: 05/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Gene-specific transcription factors (TFs) are key regulatory components of signaling pathways, controlling, for example, cell growth, development, and stress responses. Their biological functions are determined by their molecular structures, as exemplified by their structured DNA-binding domains targeting specific cis-acting elements in genes, and by the significant lack of fixed tertiary structure in their extensive intrinsically disordered regions. Recent research in protein intrinsic disorder (ID) has changed our understanding of transcriptional activation domains from ‘negative noodles’ to ID regions with function-related, short sequence motifs and molecular recognition features with structural propensities. This review focuses on molecular aspects of TFs, which represent paradigms of ID-related features. Through specific examples, we review how the ID-associated flexibility of TFs enables them to participate in large interactomes, how they use only a few hydrophobic residues, short sequence motifs, prestructured motifs, and coupled folding and binding for their interactions with co-activators, and how their accessibility to post-translational modification affects their interactions. It is furthermore emphasized how classic biochemical concepts like allostery, conformational selection, induced fit, and feedback regulation are undergoing a revival with the appreciation of ID. The review also describes the most recent advances based on computational simulations of ID-based interaction mechanisms and structural analysis of ID in the context of full-length TFs and suggests future directions for research in TF ID.
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Sharma N, Murali A, Singh SK, Giri R. Epigallocatechin gallate, an active green tea compound inhibits the Zika virus entry into host cells via binding the envelope protein. Int J Biol Macromol 2017; 104:1046-1054. [PMID: 28666829 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2017.06.105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2017] [Revised: 06/25/2017] [Accepted: 06/26/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Emerging infections of Zika virus (ZIKV) are associated with serious consequences like microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. It leads to a situation of global health emergency and demand an intensive research investigation to develop safe and effective therapeutics. Various efforts have been made to reduce the pathological pressure of ZIKV, but no effective drug has been introduced against ZIKV infections. A recent study has reported the inhibition of ZIKV entry into the host cells by an active green tea ingredient, Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) in Vero E6cells. The effect of EGCG seems remarkable but lacking the information of the mechanism of action. In this study, we have investigated the binding site (Site1) of EGCG on envelope protein and provided the insights into various interactions of molecule with the binding site using molecular docking studies. Further, using molecular dynamics approaches we proposed the possible associated mechanism of inhibition of ZIKV entry by EGCG molecule. EGCG has found to interact with several residues and providing stability to the protein conformations up to 50ns simulations.
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- Nitin Sharma
- Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling Lab, Alagappa University,Science Block, Karaikudi-630003, Tamilnadu, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Computer Aided Drug Design and Molecular Modeling Lab, Alagappa University,Science Block, Karaikudi-630003, Tamilnadu, India.
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- Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India.
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Song D, Luo R, Chen HF. The IDP-Specific Force Field ff14IDPSFF Improves the Conformer Sampling of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. J Chem Inf Model 2017; 57:1166-1178. [PMID: 28448138 PMCID: PMC5731455 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.7b00135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) or intrinsically disordered regions do not have a fixed tertiary structure but play key roles in signal regulation, molecule recognition, and drug targeting. However, it is difficult to study the structure and function of IDPs by traditional experimental methods because of their diverse conformations. Limitations of current generic protein force fields and solvent models were reported in the previous simulations of IDPs. We have also explored overcoming these limitations by developing the ff99IDPs and ff14IDPs force fields to correct the dihedral distribution for eight disorder-promoting residues often observed in IDPs and found encouraging improvements. Here we extend our correction of backbone dihedral terms to all 20 naturally occurring amino acids in the IDP-specific force field ff14IDPSFF to further improve the quality of the modeling of IDPs. Extensive tests of seven IDPs and 14 unstructured short peptides show that the simulated Cα chemical shifts obtained with the ff14IDPSFF force field are in quantitative agreement with those from NMR experiments and are more accurate than those obtained with the base generic force field and also our previous ff14IDPs that only corrects the eight disorder-promoting amino acids. The influence of the solvent model was also investigated and found to be less important. Finally, our explicit-solvent MD simulations further show that ff14IDPSFF can still be used to model structural and dynamical properties of two tested folded proteins, with a slightly better agreement in the loop regions for both structural and dynamical properties. These findings confirm that the newly developed IDP-specific force field ff14IDPSFF can improve the conformer sampling of intrinsically disordered proteins.
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- Dong Song
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Departments of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3900, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial metabolism, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Experimental Teaching Center for Life Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
- Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, 200235, China
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Kumar D, Sharma N, Giri R. Therapeutic Interventions of Cancers Using Intrinsically Disordered Proteins as Drug Targets: c-Myc as Model System. Cancer Inform 2017; 16:1176935117699408. [PMID: 28469390 PMCID: PMC5392011 DOI: 10.1177/1176935117699408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2016] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The concept of protein intrinsic disorder has taken the driving seat to understand regulatory proteins in general. Reports suggest that in mammals nearly 75% of signalling proteins contain long disordered regions with greater than 30 amino acid residues. Therefore, intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) have been implicated in several human diseases and should be considered as potential novel drug targets. Moreover, intrinsic disorder provides a huge multifunctional capability to hub proteins such as c-Myc and p53. c-Myc is the hot spot for understanding and developing therapeutics against cancers and cancer stem cells. Our past understanding is mainly based on in vitro and in vivo experiments conducted using c-Myc as whole protein. Using the reductionist approach, c-Myc oncoprotein has been divided into structured and disordered domains. A wealth of data is available dealing with the structured perspectives of c-Myc, but understanding c-Myc in terms of disordered domains has just begun. Disorderness provides enormous flexibility to proteins in general for binding to numerous partners. Here, we have reviewed the current progress on understanding c-Myc using the emerging concept of IDPs.
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- Deepak Kumar
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Mandi, India
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Shammas SL. Mechanistic roles of protein disorder within transcription. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2017; 42:155-161. [PMID: 28262589 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2017.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2016] [Revised: 01/26/2017] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Understanding the interactions of proteins involved in transcriptional regulation is critical to describing biological systems because they control the expression profile of the cell. Yet sadly they belong to a less well biophysically characterized subset of proteins; they frequently contain long disordered regions that are highly dynamic. A key question therefore is, why? What functional roles does protein disorder play in transcriptional regulation? Experimental data exemplifying these roles are starting to emerge, with common themes being enabling complexity within networks and quick responses. Most recently a role for disorder in mediating phase transitions of membrane-less organelles has been proposed.
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- Sarah L Shammas
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.
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Wall KP, Pagratis M, Armstrong G, Balsbaugh JL, Verbeke E, Pearson CG, Hough LE. Molecular Determinants of Tubulin's C-Terminal Tail Conformational Ensemble. ACS Chem Biol 2016; 11:2981-2990. [PMID: 27541566 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.6b00507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Tubulin is important for a wide variety of cellular processes including cell division, ciliogenesis, and intracellular trafficking. To perform these diverse functions, tubulin is regulated by post-translational modifications (PTM), primarily at the C-terminal tails of both the α- and β-tubulin heterodimer subunits. The tubulin C-terminal tails are disordered segments that are predicted to extend from the ordered tubulin body and may regulate both intrinsic properties of microtubules and the binding of microtubule associated proteins (MAP). It is not understood how either interactions with the ordered tubulin body or PTM affect tubulin's C-terminal tails. To probe these questions, we developed a method to isotopically label tubulin for C-terminal tail structural studies by NMR. The conformational changes of the tubulin tails as a result of both proximity to the ordered tubulin body and modification by mono- and polyglycine PTM were determined. The C-terminal tails of the tubulin dimer are fully disordered and, in contrast with prior simulation predictions, exhibit a propensity for β-sheet conformations. The C-terminal tails display significant chemical shift differences as compared to isolated peptides of the same sequence, indicating that the tubulin C-terminal tails interact with the ordered tubulin body. Although mono- and polyglycylation affect the chemical shift of adjacent residues, the conformation of the C-terminal tail appears insensitive to the length of polyglycine chains. Our studies provide important insights into how the essential disordered domains of tubulin function.
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States
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- University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado, United States
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- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Giri R, Kumar D, Sharma N, Uversky VN. Intrinsically Disordered Side of the Zika Virus Proteome. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2016; 6:144. [PMID: 27867910 PMCID: PMC5095677 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2016.00144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Over the last few decades, concepts of protein intrinsic disorder have been implicated in different biological processes. Recent studies have suggested that intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) provide structural plasticity and functional diversity to viral proteins that are involved in rapid replication and immune evasion in host cells. In case of Zika virus, the roles of protein intrinsic disorder in mechanisms of pathogenesis are not completely understood. In this study, we have analyzed the prevalence of intrinsic disorder in Zika virus proteome (strain MR 766). Our analyses revealed that Zika virus polyprotein is enriched with intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDPRs) and this finding is consistent with previous reports on the involvement of IDPs in shell formation and virulence of the Flaviviridae family. We found abundant IDPRs in Capsid, NS2B, NS3, NS4A, and NS5 proteins that are involved in mature particle formation and replication. In our view, the intrinsic disorder-focused analysis of ZIKV proteins could be important for the development of disorder-based drugs.
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- Rajanish Giri
- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Mandi, India
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- School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Mandi, India
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South FloridaTampa, FL, USA; Laboratory of Structural Dynamics, Stability and Folding of Proteins, Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of SciencesSaint Petersburg, Russia
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Mollica L, Bessa LM, Hanoulle X, Jensen MR, Blackledge M, Schneider R. Binding Mechanisms of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Theory, Simulation, and Experiment. Front Mol Biosci 2016; 3:52. [PMID: 27668217 PMCID: PMC5016563 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2016.00052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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In recent years, protein science has been revolutionized by the discovery of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). In contrast to the classical paradigm that a given protein sequence corresponds to a defined structure and an associated function, we now know that proteins can be functional in the absence of a stable three-dimensional structure. In many cases, disordered proteins or protein regions become structured, at least locally, upon interacting with their physiological partners. Many, sometimes conflicting, hypotheses have been put forward regarding the interaction mechanisms of IDPs and the potential advantages of disorder for protein-protein interactions. Whether disorder may increase, as proposed, e.g., in the “fly-casting” hypothesis, or decrease binding rates, increase or decrease binding specificity, or what role pre-formed structure might play in interactions involving IDPs (conformational selection vs. induced fit), are subjects of intense debate. Experimentally, these questions remain difficult to address. Here, we review experimental studies of binding mechanisms of IDPs using NMR spectroscopy and transient kinetic techniques, as well as the underlying theoretical concepts and numerical methods that can be applied to describe these interactions at the atomic level. The available literature suggests that the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters characterizing interactions involving IDPs can vary widely and that there may be no single common mechanism that can explain the different binding modes observed experimentally. Rather, disordered proteins appear to make combined use of features such as pre-formed structure and flexibility, depending on the individual system and the functional context.
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- Luca Mollica
- CompuNet, Drug Discovery and Development, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genova, Italy
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- NMR & Molecular Interactions, Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576 - UGSF - Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle Lille, France
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- NMR & Molecular Interactions, Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576 - UGSF - Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle Lille, France
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- Institut de Biologie Structurale, CEA, CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes Grenoble, France
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- NMR & Molecular Interactions, Université de Lille, CNRS, UMR 8576 - UGSF - Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle Lille, France
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Ithuralde RE, Roitberg AE, Turjanski AG. Structured and Unstructured Binding of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein as Revealed by Atomistic Simulations. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:8742-51. [PMID: 27348048 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b02016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are a set of proteins that lack a definite secondary structure in solution. IDPs can acquire tertiary structure when bound to their partners; therefore, the recognition process must also involve protein folding. The nature of the transition state (TS), structured or unstructured, determines the binding mechanism. The characterization of the TS has become a major challenge for experimental techniques and molecular simulations approaches since diffusion, recognition, and binding is coupled to folding. In this work we present atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations that sample the free energy surface of the coupled folding and binding of the transcription factor c-myb to the cotranscription factor CREB binding protein (CBP). This process has been recently studied and became a model to study IDPs. Despite the plethora of available information, we still do not know how c-myb binds to CBP. We performed a set of atomistic biased MD simulations running a total of 15.6 μs. Our results show that c-myb folds very fast upon binding to CBP with no unique pathway for binding. The process can proceed through both structured or unstructured TS's with similar probabilities. This finding reconciles previous seemingly different experimental results. We also performed Go-type coarse-grained MD of several structured and unstructured models that indicate that coupled folding and binding follows a native contact mechanism. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first atomistic MD simulation that samples the free energy surface of the coupled folding and binding processes of IDPs.
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- Raúl Esteban Ithuralde
- Departamento de Química Biológica/Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, IQUIBICEN/INQUIMAE-UBA/CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria , Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Pabellón II, Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida , PO Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, United States
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- Departamento de Química Biológica/Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, IQUIBICEN/INQUIMAE-UBA/CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria , Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Pabellón II, Buenos Aires C1428EGA, Argentina
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Molecular Recognition by Templated Folding of an Intrinsically Disordered Protein. Sci Rep 2016; 6:21994. [PMID: 26912067 PMCID: PMC4766501 DOI: 10.1038/srep21994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2015] [Accepted: 02/04/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins often become structured upon interacting with their partners. The mechanism of this ‘folding upon binding’ process, however, has not been fully characterised yet. Here we present a study of the folding of the intrinsically disordered transactivation domain of c-Myb (c-Myb) upon binding its partner KIX. By determining the structure of the folding transition state for the binding of wild-type and three mutational variants of KIX, we found a remarkable plasticity of the folding pathway of c-Myb. To explain this phenomenon, we show that the folding of c-Myb is templated by the structure of KIX. This adaptive folding behaviour, which occurs by heterogeneous nucleation, differs from the robust homogeneous nucleation typically observed for globular proteins. We suggest that this templated folding mechanism may enable intrinsically disordered proteins to achieve specific and reliable binding with multiple partners while avoiding aberrant interactions.
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Shammas SL, Crabtree MD, Dahal L, Wicky BIM, Clarke J. Insights into Coupled Folding and Binding Mechanisms from Kinetic Studies. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:6689-95. [PMID: 26851275 PMCID: PMC4807256 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.r115.692715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are characterized by a lack of persistent structure. Since their identification more than a decade ago, many questions regarding their functional relevance and interaction mechanisms remain unanswered. Although most experiments have taken equilibrium and structural perspectives, fewer studies have investigated the kinetics of their interactions. Here we review and highlight the type of information that can be gained from kinetic studies. In particular, we show how kinetic studies of coupled folding and binding reactions, an important class of signaling event, are needed to determine mechanisms.
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- Sarah L Shammas
- From the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- From the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- From the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- From the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- From the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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Dyson HJ, Wright PE. Role of Intrinsic Protein Disorder in the Function and Interactions of the Transcriptional Coactivators CREB-binding Protein (CBP) and p300. J Biol Chem 2016; 291:6714-22. [PMID: 26851278 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.r115.692020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The transcriptional coactivators CREB-binding protein (CBP) and p300 undergo a particularly rich set of interactions with disordered and partly ordered partners, as a part of their ubiquitous role in facilitating transcription of genes. CBP and p300 contain a number of small structured domains that provide scaffolds for the interaction of disordered transactivation domains from a wide variety of partners, including p53, hypoxia-inducible factor 1α (HIF-1α), NF-κB, and STAT proteins, and are the targets for the interactions of disordered viral proteins that compete with cellular factors to disrupt signaling and subvert the cell cycle. The functional diversity of the CBP/p300 interactome provides an excellent example of the power of intrinsic disorder to facilitate the complexity of living systems.
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- H Jane Dyson
- From the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037-1000
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- From the Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037-1000
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Gianni S, Dogan J, Jemth P. Coupled binding and folding of intrinsically disordered proteins: what can we learn from kinetics? Curr Opin Struct Biol 2016; 36:18-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.11.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 11/13/2015] [Accepted: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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