Molecular Mechanism of Inhibition of the Human Protein Complex Hsp90-Cdc37, a Kinome Chaperone-Cochaperone, by Triterpene Celastrol
Molecular Mechanism of Inhibition of the Human Protein Complex Hsp90-Cdc37, a Kinome Chaperone-Cochaperone, by Triterpene Celastrol
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200900929
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Schwalbe, Harald
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作者:
Sreeramulu, Sridhar;Gande, Santosh Lakshmi;Schwalbe, Harald
Inhibition of the ATPase activity of the kinome chaperone Hsp90 (kinome= set of all protein kinases in an organism) has long been known as molecular target for anticancer therapy. Cdc37, a cochaperone of Hsp90 in mammalian cells, targets protein kinases and is upregulated in various cancers.[1, 2] The protein–protein complex forms with a KD value of 1.2 μm and is considered to mediate carcinogenesis by stabilizing a variety of different oncogenic kinases in malignant cells. However, Cdc37 as well as Hsp90 can also act alone, at least in yeast. Low-molecular-weight molecules that interfere with Cdc37 or Hsp90 or disrupt the Hsp90–Cdc37 complex have recently been proposed as a new class of anticancer agents.[3, 4] Gene-based expression studies have identified the triterpene celastrol, which represents a new class of non ATP-competitive inhibitors of Hsp90.[5] Immunoprecipitation in a pancreatic cell line and docking experiments suggested that celastrol exerts its antiproliferative activity by binding to the N-terminal domain of Hsp90 (Hsp90N), thereby disrupting the complex between Hsp90N and Cdc37.[6] In vivo, celastrol showed significant inhibition of tumor growth in nude mice with prostate or pancreatic cancer.[6, 7]Herein, we describe in detail how celastrol disrupts the human Hsp90–Cdc37 complex. 1H, 15N-HSQC NMR experiments detect ligand binding to a target through chemical-shift perturbations (CSPs).[8–10] We investigated the effects of celastrol on the complex of 1H, 15N-labeled Hsp90N (23 kDa) with unlabeled full-length Cdc37 (45 kDa)(Figure 1A). As a result of the increased transverse relaxation rates of the protein in complex (approx. 70 kDa), the HSQC spectrum of