Binding or Bending: Distinction of Allosteric Abl Kinase Agonists from Antagonists by an NMR-Based Conformational Assay

Autor: Simona Cotesta, André Strauss, Jürgen Mestan, Xavier Pelle, Sandra W. Cowan-Jacob, Andreas Marzinzik, Wolfgang Jahnke, Pascal Furet, Robert Martin Grotzfeld, Doriano Fabbro, Gabriele Fendrich
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132:7043-7048
ISSN: 1520-5126
0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/ja101837n
Popis: Allosteric inhibitors of Bcr-Abl have emerged as a novel therapeutic option for the treatment of CML. Using fragment-based screening, a search for novel Abl inhibitors that bind to the myristate pocket was carried out. Here we show that not all myristate ligands are functional inhibitors, but that the conformational state of C-terminal helix_I is a structural determinant for functional activity. We present an NMR-based conformational assay to monitor the conformation of this crucial helix_I and show that myristate ligands that bend helix_I are functional antagonists, whereas ligands that bind to the myristate pocket but do not induce this conformational change are kinase agonists. Activation of c-Abl by allosteric agonists has been confirmed in a biochemical assay.
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