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Proteome-wide covalent ligand discovery in native biological systems
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Small molecules are powerful tools for investigating protein function and can serve as leads for new therapeutics. Most human proteins, however, lack small-molecule ligands, and entire protein classes are considered 'undruggable'. Fragment-based ligand discovery can identify small-molecule probes for proteins that have proven difficult to target using high-throughput screening of complex compound libraries. Although reversibly binding ligands are commonly pursued, covalent fragments provide an alternative route to small-molecule probes, including those that can access regions of proteins that are difficult to target through binding affinity alone. Here we report a quantitative analysis of cysteine-reactive small-molecule fragments screened against thousands of proteins in human proteomes and cells. Covalent ligands were identified for >700 cysteines found in both druggable proteins and proteins deficient in chemical probes, including transcription factors, adaptor/scaffolding proteins, and uncharacterized proteins. Among the atypical ligand-protein interactions discovered were compounds that react preferentially with pro- (inactive) caspases. We used these ligands to distinguish extrinsic apoptosis pathways in human cell lines versus primary human T cells, showing that the former is largely mediated by caspase-8 while the latter depends on both caspase-8 and -10. Fragment-based covalent ligand discovery provides a greatly expanded portrait of the ligandable proteome and furnishes compounds that can illuminate protein functions in native biological systems.
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“Although human CASP10 shares some degree of substrate specificity with CASP8 [317] and possibly contributes to extrinsic apoptosis in primary T cells [318]”
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“Covalent inhibitors have been reported to achieve high efficiency through forming covalent bonds with cysteine or other nucleophilic residues in the target protein.”
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“Reactive cysteine residues on proteins have high nucleophilicity, which enables covalent binding with electrophilic small molecules [53, 54].”
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“In this study, more than 700 ligandable cysteines were identified, and information was provided about the proteome-wide selectivity of each covalent fragment in the library.”
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“showing that this approach can rapidly identify compounds that target proteins of biological interest.”
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“The covalent ligands discovered with this approach and their corresponding ligandable sites were used to help elucidate the role of caspase 8 and caspase 10 in extrinsic apoptosis in T cells”
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“We finally observed limited overlap of enantioprobe targets with proteins that demonstrated ligandability in previous chemical proteomic studies using cysteine-26,27 or lysine-reactive28 electrophilic fragments (Fig. 3b)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Backus, K. M., Correia, B. E., Lum, K. M., Forli, S., Horning, B. D., González-Páez, G. E., Chatterjee, S., Lanning, B. R., Teijaro, J. R., Olson, A. J., Wolan, D. W., & Cravatt, B. F.
- Affiliations
- Scripps Research Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Backus, Keriann M.
- Cravatt, Benjamin F.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2016-06-15
- Volume
- 534
- Issue
- 7608
- Pages
- 570-574
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC4919207
- OpenAlex
- W2430132928
- Cited by
- 940
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 109 · 2025: 114 · 2024: 114 · 2023: 134 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 94 · 2020: 87 · 2019: 69 · 2018: 61 · 2017: 54 · 2016: 18
- FWCI
- 31.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (CA-087660, R37CA087660, R01CA087660)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM069832, GM-090294, GM108208, R01GM090294, F32GM108208, R01GM069832)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Click Chemistry and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
- Keywords
- covalent ligands, chemical probes, undruggable proteins, transcription factors, caspase-8, caspase-10, extrinsic apoptotic pathway, T cells, protein function
- MeSH terms
- Cells, Cultured, Cysteine, Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, Enzyme Precursors, Humans, Ligands, Peptide Fragments, T-Lymphocytes, Transcription Factors, Apoptosis, Proteome, Caspase 8, Caspase 10, Small Molecule Libraries
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