Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Department of Structural Biology and Biophysics, UCB Celltech, Slough, United Kingdom.
Acta Crystallogr F Struct Biol Commun. 2021 Aug 1;77(Pt 8):254-261. doi: 10.1107/S2053230X21006658. Epub 2021 Jul 28.
14-3-3 proteins regulate many intracellular processes and their ability to bind in subtly different fashions to their numerous partner proteins provides attractive drug-targeting points for a range of diseases. Schnurri-3 is a suppressor of mouse bone formation and a candidate target for novel osteoporosis therapeutics, and thus it is of interest to determine whether it interacts with 14-3-3. In this work, potential 14-3-3 interaction sites on mammalian Schnurri-3 were identified by an in silico analysis of its protein sequence. Using fluorescence polarization, isothermal titration calorimetry and X-ray crystallography, it is shown that synthetic peptides containing either phosphorylated Thr869 or Ser542 can indeed interact with 14-3-3, with the latter capable of forming an interprotein disulfide bond with 14-3-3σ: a hitherto unreported phenomenon.
14-3-3 蛋白调节许多细胞内过程,其与众多伴侣蛋白结合的能力以微妙不同的方式提供了针对一系列疾病的有吸引力的药物靶点。Schnurri-3 是小鼠骨形成的抑制剂,也是新型骨质疏松症治疗药物的候选靶点,因此确定它是否与 14-3-3 相互作用是很有意义的。在这项工作中,通过对其蛋白质序列的计算机分析,确定了哺乳动物 Schnurri-3 上潜在的 14-3-3 相互作用位点。使用荧光偏振、等温滴定量热法和 X 射线晶体学,结果表明含有磷酸化 Thr869 或 Ser542 的合成肽确实可以与 14-3-3 相互作用,后者能够与 14-3-3σ形成蛋白质间二硫键:这是一个迄今为止尚未报道的现象。