Structural highlights
Function
DSBA_ECOLI Required for disulfide bond formation in some periplasmic proteins such as PhoA or OmpA. Acts by transferring its disulfide bond to other proteins and is reduced in the process. DsbA is reoxidized by DsbB. Required for pilus biogenesis. PhoP-regulated transcription is redox-sensitive, being activated when the periplasm becomes more reducing (deletion of dsbA/dsbB, treatment with dithiothreitol). MgrB acts between DsbA/DsbB and PhoP/PhoQ in this pathway.[1] [2]
Publication Abstract from PubMed
A bottleneck in fragment-based lead development is the lack of systematic approaches to elaborate the initial fragment hits, which usually bind with low affinity to their target. Herein, we describe an analysis using X-ray crystallography of a diverse library of compounds prepared using microscale parallel synthesis. This approach yielded an 8-fold increase in affinity and detailed structural information for the resulting complex, providing an efficient and broadly applicable approach to early fragment development.
Rapid Elaboration of Fragments into Leads by X-ray Crystallographic Screening of Parallel Chemical Libraries (REFiLX).,Bentley MR, Ilyichova OV, Wang G, Williams ML, Sharma G, Alwan WS, Whitehouse RL, Mohanty B, Scammells PJ, Heras B, Martin JL, Totsika M, Capuano B, Doak BC, Scanlon MJ J Med Chem. 2020 Jun 24. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00111. PMID:32529824[3]
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References
- ↑ Akiyama Y, Kamitani S, Kusukawa N, Ito K. In vitro catalysis of oxidative folding of disulfide-bonded proteins by the Escherichia coli dsbA (ppfA) gene product. J Biol Chem. 1992 Nov 5;267(31):22440-5. PMID:1429594
- ↑ Lippa AM, Goulian M. Perturbation of the oxidizing environment of the periplasm stimulates the PhoQ/PhoP system in Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol. 2012 Mar;194(6):1457-63. doi: 10.1128/JB.06055-11. Epub 2012 Jan 20. PMID:22267510 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.06055-11
- ↑ Bentley MR, Ilyichova OV, Wang G, Williams ML, Sharma G, Alwan WS, Whitehouse RL, Mohanty B, Scammells PJ, Heras B, Martin JL, Totsika M, Capuano B, Doak BC, Scanlon MJ. Rapid Elaboration of Fragments into Leads by X-ray Crystallographic Screening of Parallel Chemical Libraries (REFiLX). J Med Chem. 2020 Jun 24. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00111. PMID:32529824 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00111
