Article ; Online: Homo- and Heterodimerization of Proteins in Cell Signaling: Inhibition and Drug Design.
Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology
2017 Volume 111, Page(s) 1–59
Abstract: Protein dimerization controls many physiological processes in the body. Proteins form homo-, hetero-, or oligomerization in the cellular environment to regulate the cellular processes. Any deregulation of these processes may result in a disease state. ... ...
Abstract | Protein dimerization controls many physiological processes in the body. Proteins form homo-, hetero-, or oligomerization in the cellular environment to regulate the cellular processes. Any deregulation of these processes may result in a disease state. Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) can be inhibited by antibodies, small molecules, or peptides, and inhibition of PPI has therapeutic value. PPI drug discovery research has steadily increased in the last decade, and a few PPI inhibitors have already reached the pharmaceutical market. Several PPI inhibitors are in clinical trials. With advancements in structural and molecular biology methods, several methods are now available to study protein homo- and heterodimerization and their inhibition by drug-like molecules. Recently developed methods to study PPI such as proximity ligation assay and enzyme-fragment complementation assay that detect the PPI in the cellular environment are described with examples. At present, the methods used to design PPI inhibitors can be classified into three major groups: (1) structure-based drug design, (2) high-throughput screening, and (3) fragment-based drug design. In this chapter, we have described some of the experimental methods to study PPIs and their inhibition. Examples of homo- and heterodimers of proteins, their structural and functional aspects, and some of the inhibitors that have clinical importance are discussed. The design of PPI inhibitors of epidermal growth factor receptor heterodimers and CD2-CD58 is discussed in detail. |
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MeSH term(s) | Drug Design ; Humans ; Proteins/analysis ; Proteins/antagonists & inhibitors ; Proteins/metabolism ; Signal Transduction/drug effects |
Chemical Substances | Proteins |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2017-10-06 |
Publishing country | Netherlands |
Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
ISSN | 1876-1631 ; 1876-1623 |
ISSN (online) | 1876-1631 |
ISSN | 1876-1623 |
DOI | 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2017.08.003 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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