Room-temperature crystallography reveals altered binding of small-molecule fragments to PTP1B

Abstract Much of our current understanding of how small-molecule ligands interact with proteins stems from X-ray crystal structures determined at cryogenic (cryo) temperature. For proteins alone, room-temperature (RT) crystallography can reveal previously hidden, biologically relevant alternate conformations. However, less is understood about how RT crystallography may impact the conformational landscapes of protein-ligand complexes. Previously we showed that small-molecule fragments cluster in putative allosteric sites using a cryo crystallographic screen of the therapeutic target PTP1B (Keedy*, Hill*, 2018). Here we have performed two RT crystallographic screens of PTP1B using many of the same fragments, representing the largest RT crystallographic screens of a diverse library of ligands to date, and enabling a direct interrogation of the effect of data collection temperature on protein-ligand interactions. We show that at RT, fewer ligands bind, and often more weakly -- but with a variety of temperature-dependent differences, including unique binding poses, changes in solvation, new binding sites, and distinct protein allosteric conformational responses. Overall, this work suggests that the vast body of existing cryogenic-temperature protein-ligand structures may provide an incomplete picture, and highlights the potential of RT crystallography to help complete this picture by revealing distinct conformational modes of protein-ligand systems. Our results may inspire future use of RT crystallography to interrogate the roles of protein-ligand conformational ensembles in biological function..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 23. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mehlman, Tamar (Skaist) [VerfasserIn]
Biel, Justin T. [VerfasserIn]
Azeem, Syeda Maryam [VerfasserIn]
Nelson, Elliot R. [VerfasserIn]
Hossain, Sakib [VerfasserIn]
Dunnett, Louise E. [VerfasserIn]
Paterson, Neil G. [VerfasserIn]
Douangamath, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Talon, Romain [VerfasserIn]
Axford, Danny [VerfasserIn]
Orins, Helen [VerfasserIn]
von Delft, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Keedy, Daniel A. [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2022.11.02.514751

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XBI037783491