Selectivity via Cooperativity: Preferential Stabilization of the p65/14-3-3 interaction with Semi-Synthetic Natural Products

Madita Wolter, Pim de Vink, Joao Filipe Neves, Sonja Srdanovic, Yusuke Higuchi, Nobuo Kato, Andrew J Wilson, Isabelle Landrieu, Luc Brunsveld, Christian Ottmann (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Natural compounds are an important class of potent drug molecules including some retrospectively found to act as stabilizers of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). However, the design of synthetic PPI stabilizers remains an understudied approach. To date, there are limited examples where cooperativity has been utilized to guide the optimization of a PPI stabilizer. The 14-3-3 scaffold proteins provide an excellent platform to explore PPI stabilization because these proteins mediate several hundred PPIs, and a class of natural compounds, the fusicoccanes, are known to stabilize a subset of 14-3-3 protein interactions. 14-3-3 has been reported to negatively regulate the p65 subunit of the NF-κB transcription factor, which qualifies this protein complex as a potential target for drug discovery to control cell proliferation. Here, we report the high-resolution crystal structures of two 14-3-3 binding motifs of p65 in complex with 14-3-3. A semisynthetic natural product derivative, DP-005, binds to an interface pocket of the p65/14-3-3 complex and concomitantly stabilizes it. Cooperativity analyses of this interaction, and other disease relevant 14-3-3-PPIs, demonstrated selectivity of DP-005 for the p65/14-3-3 complex. The adaptation of a cooperative binding model provided a general approach to characterize stabilization and to assay for selectivity of PPI stabilizers.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)11772–11783
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume142
Issue number27
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jul 2020

Funding

FundersFunder number
Wellcome Trust097827/Z/11/A
European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme675179
Université de Lille
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEP/N013573/1
European CommissionH2020-MSCA-ITN-2015
Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek016.150.366, 024.001.035
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
European Regional Development Fund
Institute Pasteur De Lille

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