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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 137, Issue 46, Pages 14640-14652Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b07090
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- bwHPC initiative and bwHPC-C5 project provided through associated computer services of JUSTUS HPC facility at University of Ulm
- Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg (MWK)
- Germany Research Foundation (DFG)
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We target the gatekeeper MET 146 of c-Jun N-terminal kinase 3 (JNK3) to exemplify the applicability of X...s halogen bonds in molecular design using computational, synthetic, structural and biophysical techniques. In a designed series of aminopyrimidine-based inhibitors, we unexpectedly encounter a plateau of affinity. Compared to their QM-calculated interaction energies, particularly bromine and iodine fail to reach the full potential according to the size of their sigma-hole. Instead, mutation of the gatekeeper residue into leucine, alanine, or thereonine reveals that the heavier halides can significantly influence selectivity in the human kinome. Thus, we demonstrate that, although the choice of halogen may not always increase affinity, it can still be relevant for inducing selectivity. Determining the crystal structure of the iodine derivative in complex with JNK3 (4X21) reveals an unusual bivalent halogen/chalcogen bond donated by the ligand and the back-pocket residue MET115. Incipient repulsion from the too short halogen bond increase the flexibility of C-epsilon of MET146, whereas the rest of the residue fails to adapt being fixed by the chalcogen bond. This effect can be useful to induce selectivity, as the necessary combination of methionine residues only occurs in 9.3% of human kinases, while methioine is the predominant gatekeeper (39%).
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