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Controlling Allosteric Networks in Proteins
Abstract
Allosteric transition, defined as conformational changes induced by ligand binding, is one of the fundamental properties of proteins. Allostery has been observed and characterized in many proteins, and has been recently utilized to control protein function via regulation of protein activity. Here, we review the physical and evolutionary origin of protein allostery, as well as its importance to protein regulation, drug discovery, and biological processes in living systems. We describe recently developed approaches to identify allosteric pathways, connected sets of pairwise interactions that are responsible for propagation of conformational change from the ligand-binding site to a distal functional site. We then present experimental and computational protein engineering approaches for control of protein function by modulation of allosteric sites. As an example of application of these approaches, we describe a synergistic computational and experimental approach to rescue the cystic-fibrosis-associated protein cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, which upon deletion of a single residue misfolds and causes disease. This example demonstrates the power of allosteric manipulation in proteins to both elucidate mechanisms of molecular function and to develop therapeutic strategies that rescue those functions. Allosteric control of proteins provides a tool to shine a light on the complex cascades of cellular processes and facilitate unprecedented interrogation of biological systems.
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“According to the ensemble model, first described in the 1980s (Cooper, 1984; Frauenfelder et al., 1988), the allosteric behavior of a macromolecular system arises from the properties of the native free-energy landscape of the system, and how this land-scape is remodeled by various “perturbations,” such as ligand binding, protonation, or interactions with other proteins (Dokholyan, 2016; Kern and Z”
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“Unraveling the mechanistic underpinning of this behavior should therefore lead to improved understanding of how signaling events are relayed and regulated, and enable their modulation with promising pharmaceutical avenues for targeting human disease (Dokholyan, 2016).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Dokholyan, N. V.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dokholyan, Nikolay V.
- Venue
- Chemical Reviews
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2016-02-19
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 6463-6487
- ISSN
- 0009-2665 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-6890
- OpenAlex
- W2283716387
- Cited by
- 260
- References
- 333
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 48 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 7
- FWCI
- 2.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Chemical Reviews (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01 AI102732)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (5 R01 GM080742)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Hemoglobin structure and function
- Keywords
- protein allostery, allosteric networks, allosteric pathways, ligand-induced conformational change, protein regulation, protein engineering, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator, CFTR, protein misfolding, drug discovery
- MeSH terms
- Allosteric Regulation, Allosteric Site, Humans, Ligands, Proteins, Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator, Protein Structure, Quaternary, Focal Adhesion Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, Molecular Dynamics Simulation
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