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FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.901603
Keywords
protein kinase; STK17B; p-loop; molecular dynamics simulation; conformational dynamics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82172846]
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This study revealed the conformational dynamics of the phosphate-binding loop (P-loop) in different states of STK17B through molecular dynamics simulation. The interactions between the P-loop and inhibitors were found to contribute to inhibitor selectivity profile. These findings advance our understanding of kinase inhibitor selectivity and have implications for the design of selective inhibitors for other protein kinases.
As a member of the death-associated protein kinase family of serine/threonine kinases, the STK17B has been associated with diverse diseases such as hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the conformational dynamics of the phosphate-binding loop (P-loop) in the determination of inhibitor selectivity profile to the STK17B are less understood. Here, a multi-microsecond length molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of STK17B in the three different states (ligand-free, ADP-bound, and ligand-bound states) was carried out to uncover the conformational plasticity of the P-loop. Together with the analyses of principal component analysis, cross-correlation and generalized correlation motions, secondary structural analysis, and community network analysis, the conformational dynamics of the P-loop in the different states were revealed, in which the P-loop flipped into the ADP-binding site upon the inhibitor binding and interacted with the inhibitor and the C-lobe, strengthened the communication between the N- and C-lobes. These resulting interactions contributed to inhibitor selectivity profile to the STK17B. Our results may advance our understanding of kinase inhibitor selectivity and offer possible implications for the design of highly selective inhibitors for other protein kinases.
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