期刊
ARTIFICIAL CELLS NANOMEDICINE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
卷 46, 期 6, 页码 1122-1131出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/21691401.2017.1360327
关键词
Self-binding peptide; c-Src proto-oncogene tyrosine-protein kinase; SH3 domain; polyproline-II helix; rational peptide design; anticancer therapeutics
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31671361, 31200993]
- Science and Technology Project of Sichuan Province [2015JY0252]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [ZYGX2016J186, ZYGX2015Z006]
Proto-oncogene non-receptor tyrosine protein kinase c-Src has been involved in the development, progression and metastasis of a variety of human cancers. This protein contains two self-binding peptide (SBP) sites separately between the SH3 domain and polyproline-II (PPII) helix and between the SH2 domain and C-terminal phosphorylatable tail (CTPT), which are potential targets of anticancer drugs to regulate the kinase activity. Here, we described an integrated protocol to systematically investigate the structural basis, energetic property and dynamics behaviour of PPII binding to SH3, and to rationally design potent peptide ligands to target the SBP site of SH3-PPII interaction. Our study found that the PPII peptide is a non-typical binder that can only interact effectively with its cognate SH3 domain when it is integrated into the full-length c-Src kinase protein; stripping the peptide from the protein would considerably impair SH3 affinity by increasing entropy penalty upon the domain-peptide binding, suggesting that the protein context plays an essential role in the SBP's biological function. Next, we identified that the PPII peptide binds to SH3 domain in a class II manner and, on this basis, we derived a series of modified versions of the wild-type PPII peptide using a structure-based rational strategy. These modified peptide mutants have been structurally optimized with respect to their molecular flexibility and interaction potency with SH3 domain, in order to minimize indirect entropy penalty and to maximize direct binding enthalpy simultaneously. Consequently, several rationally designed peptides were obtained, including PPIIm2 (TSKPQTPGRA), PPIIm5 (KPPTPPRA), PPIIm6 (FPPPPPRA) and PPIIm7 (YPPLPPRA), which exhibit a moderately or considerably increased affinity (K-d=72, 34, 15 and 5.7 mu M, respectively) relative to the wild-type PPII (TSKPQTQGLA) (K-d=160 mu M). These peptides can be used as lead molecular entities to further develop new anticancer therapeutics to regulate c-Src kinase activity by targeting the SBP site of SH3-PPII interaction.
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