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COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04720-6
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Dynamic docking simulations reveal the interactions and conformational changes of the intrinsically disordered region of Bim and its cryptic binding site in Bcl-xL, a pro-survival protein involved in cancer progression.
The intrinsically disordered region (IDR) of Bim binds to the flexible cryptic site of Bcl-xL, a pro-survival protein involved in cancer progression that plays an important role in initiating apoptosis. However, their binding mechanism has not yet been elucidated. We have applied our dynamic docking protocol, which correctly reproduced both the IDR properties of Bim and the native bound configuration, as well as suggesting other stable/meta-stable binding configurations and revealed the binding pathway. Although the cryptic site of Bcl-xL is predominantly in a closed conformation, initial binding of Bim in an encounter configuration leads to mutual induced-fit binding, where both molecules adapt to each other; Bcl-xL transitions to an open state as Bim folds from a disordered to an alpha-helical conformation while the two molecules bind each other. Finally, our data provides new avenues to develop novel drugs by targeting newly discovered stable conformations of Bcl-xL. Dynamic docking simulations reveal the interactions and conformational changes of the intrinsically disordered region of Bim and its cryptic binding site in Bcl-xL, a pro-survival protein involved in cancer progression.
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