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A yeast two-hybrid system for the screening and characterization of small-molecule inhibitors of protein–protein interactions identifies a novel putative Mdm2-binding site in p53

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Wong, Jin Huei, Alfatah, Mohammad, Sin, Mei Fang, Sim, Hong May, Verma, Chandra S., Lane, David P., Arumugam, Prakash·2017·BMC Biology

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BACKGROUND: Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to the growth and survival of cells and serve as excellent targets to develop inhibitors of biological processes such as host-pathogen interactions and cancer cell proliferation. However, isolation of PPI inhibitors is extremely challenging. While several in vitro assays to screen for PPI inhibitors are available, they are often expensive, cumbersome, and require large amounts of purified protein. In contrast, limited in vivo assays are available to screen for small-molecule inhibitors of PPI. METHODS: We have engineered a yeast strain that is suitable for screening of small-molecule inhibitors of protein-protein interaction using the Yeast 2-hybrid Assay. We have optimised and validated the assay using inhibitors of the p53-Mdm2 interaction and identified a hitherto unreported putative Mdm2-binding domain in p53. RESULTS: We report a significantly improved and thoroughly validated yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) assay that can be used in a high throughput manner to screen for small-molecule PPI inhibitors. Using the p53-Mdm2 interaction to optimize the assay, we show that the p53-Mdm2 inhibitor nutlin-3 is a substrate for the yeast ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter Pdr5. By deleting nine ABC transporter-related genes, we generated a ABC9Δ yeast strain that is highly permeable to small molecules. In the ABC9Δ strain, p53-Mdm2 interaction inhibitors, like AMG232 and MI-773, completely inhibited the p53-Mdm2 interaction at nanomolar concentrations in the Y2H assay. In addition, we identified a conserved segment in the core DNA-binding domain of p53 that facilitates stable interaction with Mdm2 in yeast cells and in vitro. CONCLUSION: The Y2H assay can be utilized for high-throughput screening of small-molecule inhibitors of PPIs and to identify domains that stabilize PPIs.

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  • The aforementioned screening assays, as well as scalable methods to discover drug-induced PPIs such as Y2H-based/related assays, may generate the necessary data to include QSAR modeling in the loop of design.

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Authors
Wong, J. H., Alfatah, M., Sin, M. F., Sim, H. M., Verma, C. S., Lane, D. P., & Arumugam, P.
Affiliations
  • Bioinformatics Institute (SG)
  • National University of Singapore (SG)
Corresponding author
Arumugam, Prakash
Venue
BMC Biology
Published
2017-11-09
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
108-108
ISSN
1741-7007 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2767626798
Cited by
45
References
38
Citations by year
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2.29
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journal article
Language
en
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cc-by
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  • BMC Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • National University of Singapore (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Bioinformatics Institute
  • A-STAR (IAF311013)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer-related Molecular Pathways
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
Keywords
protein-protein interaction inhibitors, small molecule inhibitors, yeast two-hybrid, p53-MDM2 interaction, p53 DNA-binding domain, Nutlin-3, high-throughput screening, MDM2
MeSH terms
Binding Sites, Protein Binding, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Tumor Suppressor Protein p53, Two-Hybrid System Techniques, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Small Molecule Libraries

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