1t84
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'''Solution structure of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) autoinhibited core domain complexed with (S)-wiskostatin, a small molecule inhibitor''' | '''Solution structure of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) autoinhibited core domain complexed with (S)-wiskostatin, a small molecule inhibitor''' | ||
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[[Category: Rosen, M K.]] | [[Category: Rosen, M K.]] | ||
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Solution structure of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) autoinhibited core domain complexed with (S)-wiskostatin, a small molecule inhibitor
Overview
Current drug discovery efforts focus primarily on proteins with defined enzymatic or small molecule binding sites. Autoregulatory domains represent attractive alternative targets for small molecule inhibitors because they also occur in noncatalytic proteins and because allosteric inhibitors may avoid specificity problems inherent in active site-directed inhibitors. We report here the identification of wiskostatin, a chemical inhibitor of the neural Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (N-WASP). Wiskostatin interacts with a cleft in the regulatory GTPase-binding domain (GBD) of WASP in the solution structure of the complex. Wiskostatin induces folding of the isolated, unstructured GBD into its autoinhibited conformation, suggesting that wiskostatin functions by stabilizing N-WASP in its autoinhibited state. The use of small molecules to bias conformational equilibria represents a potentially general strategy for chemical inhibition of autoinhibited proteins, even in cases where such sites have not been naturally evolved in a target.
About this Structure
1T84 is a Single protein structure of sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Chemical inhibition of N-WASP by stabilization of a native autoinhibited conformation., Peterson JR, Bickford LC, Morgan D, Kim AS, Ouerfelli O, Kirschner MW, Rosen MK, Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2004 Aug;11(8):747-55. Epub 2004 Jul 4. PMID:15235593 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 09:39:09 2008
