Structure-Based Design, Synthesis, and X-ray Crystallography of a High-Affinity Antagonist of the Grb2-SH2 Domain Containing an Asparagine Mimetic

1999 ◽  
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pp. 2358-2363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Furet ◽  
Carlos García-Echeverría ◽  
Brigitte Gay ◽  
Joseph Schoepfer ◽  
Martin Zeller ◽  
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1993 ◽  
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pp. 9925-9938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis A. Holt ◽  
Juan I. Luengo ◽  
Dennis S. Yamashita ◽  
Hye Ja Oh ◽  
Arda L. Konialian ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 182 (4) ◽  
pp. 2141-2151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sivaraman Padavattan ◽  
Sabine Flicker ◽  
Tilman Schirmer ◽  
Christoph Madritsch ◽  
Stefanie Randow ◽  
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Author(s):  
Rajesh Gumpena ◽  
George T. Lountos ◽  
David S. Waugh

The production of high-quality crystals is the main bottleneck in determining the structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography. In addition to being recognized as a very effective solubility-enhancing fusion partner,Escherichia colimaltose-binding protein (MBP) has also been successfully employed as a `fixed-arm' crystallization chaperone in more than 100 cases. Here, it is reported that designed ankyrin-repeat proteins (DARPins) that bind with high affinity to MBP can promote the crystallization of an MBP fusion protein when the fusion protein alone fails to produce diffraction-quality crystals. As a proof of principle, three different co-crystal structures of MBP fused to the catalytic domain of human dual-specificity phosphatase 1 in complex with DARPins are reported.



Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 1322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Fischer ◽  
Symeon M. Koulas ◽  
Anastasia S. Tsagkarakou ◽  
Efthimios Kyriakis ◽  
George A. Stravodimos ◽  
...  

Structure-based design and synthesis of two biphenyl-N-acyl-β-d-glucopyranosylamine derivatives as well as their assessment as inhibitors of human liver glycogen phosphorylase (hlGPa, a pharmaceutical target for type 2 diabetes) is presented. X-ray crystallography revealed the importance of structural water molecules and that the inhibitory efficacy correlates with the degree of disturbance caused by the inhibitor binding to a loop crucial for the catalytic mechanism. The in silico-derived models of the binding mode generated during the design process corresponded very well with the crystallographic data.



2018 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 210-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Angeli ◽  
Lorenzo di Cesare Mannelli ◽  
Elena Lucarini ◽  
Thomas S. Peat ◽  
Carla Ghelardini ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 122 (17) ◽  
pp. 4229-4230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer J. Williams ◽  
Valerie Notenboom ◽  
Jacqueline Wicki ◽  
David R. Rose ◽  
Stephen G. Withers




2010 ◽  
Vol 76 (19) ◽  
pp. 6351-6359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshihiko Kitajima ◽  
Yasunori Chiba ◽  
Yoshifumi Jigami

ABSTRACT The production of selenomethionine (SeMet) derivatives of recombinant proteins allows phase determination by single-wavelength or multiwavelength anomalous dispersion phasing in X-ray crystallography, and this popular approach has permitted the crystal structures of numerous proteins to be determined. Although yeast is an ideal host for the production of large amounts of eukaryotic proteins that require posttranslational modification, the toxic effects of SeMet often interfere with the preparation of protein derivatives containing this compound. We previously isolated a mutant strain (SMR-94) of the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris that is resistant to both SeMet and selenate and demonstrated its applicability for the production of proteins suitable for X-ray crystallographic analysis. However, the molecular basis for resistance to SeMet by the SMR-94 strain remains unclear. Here, we report the characterization of SeMet-resistant mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the identification of a mutant allele of the MUP1 gene encoding high-affinity methionine permease, which confers SeMet resistance. Although the total methionine uptake by the mup1 mutant (the SRY5-7 strain) decreased to 47% of the wild-type level, it was able to incorporate SeMet into the overexpressed epidermal growth factor peptide with 73% occupancy, indicating the importance of the moderate uptake of SeMet by amino acid permeases other than Mup1p for the alleviation of SeMet toxicity. In addition, under standard culture conditions, the mup1 mutant showed higher productivity of the SeMet derivative relative to other SeMet-resistant mutants. Based on these results, we conclude that the mup1 mutant would be useful for the preparation of selenomethionyl proteins for X-ray crystallography.



Author(s):  
Thomas Fischer ◽  
Symeon M. Koulas ◽  
Anastasia S. Tsagkarakou ◽  
Efthimios Kyriakis ◽  
George A. Stravodimos ◽  
...  

Structure-based design and synthesis of two biphenyl-N-acyl-β-D-glucopyranosylamine derivatives as well as their assessment as inhibitors of human liver glycogen phosphorylase (hlGPa, a pharmaceutical target for type 2 diabetes) is presented. X-ray crystallography revealed the importance of structural water molecules and that the inhibitory efficacy correlates with the degree of disturbance caused by the inhibitor binding to a loop crucial for the catalytic mechanism. The in silico derived models of the binding mode generated during the design process corresponded very well with the crystallographic data.





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