Determining Cysteines Available for Covalent Inhibition Across the Human Kinome

Autor: Zheng Zhao, Lei Xie, Philip E. Bourne, Spencer Bliven, Qingsong Liu
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 60:2879-2889
ISSN: 1520-4804
0022-2623
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6b01815
Popis: Covalently bound protein kinase inhibitors have been frequently designed to target noncatalytic cysteines at the ATP binding site. Thus, it is important to know if a given cysteine can form a covalent bond. Here we combine a function-site interaction fingerprint method and DFT calculations to determine the potential of cysteines to form a covalent interaction with an inhibitor. By harnessing the human structural kinome, a comprehensive structure-based binding site cysteine data set was assembled. The orientation of the cysteine thiol group indicates which cysteines can potentially form covalent bonds. These covalent inhibitor easy-available cysteines are located within five regions: P-loop, roof of pocket, front pocket, catalytic-2 of the catalytic loop, and DFG-3 close to the DFG peptide. In an independent test set these cysteines covered 95% of covalent kinase inhibitors. This study provides new insights into cysteine reactivity and preference which is important for the prospective development of covalent kinase inhibitors.
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