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Title | Structural complementarity facilitates E7820-mediated degradation of RBM39 by DCAF15. |
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Journal, issue, pages | Nat Chem Biol, Vol. 16, Issue 1, Page 7-14, Year 2020 |
Publish date | Nov 4, 2019 |
![]() | Tyler B Faust / Hojong Yoon / Radosław P Nowak / Katherine A Donovan / Zhengnian Li / Quan Cai / Nicholas A Eleuteri / Tinghu Zhang / Nathanael S Gray / Eric S Fischer / ![]() |
PubMed Abstract | The investigational drugs E7820, indisulam and tasisulam (aryl-sulfonamides) promote the degradation of the splicing factor RBM39 in a proteasome-dependent mechanism. While the activity critically ...The investigational drugs E7820, indisulam and tasisulam (aryl-sulfonamides) promote the degradation of the splicing factor RBM39 in a proteasome-dependent mechanism. While the activity critically depends on the cullin RING ligase substrate receptor DCAF15, the molecular details remain elusive. Here we present the cryo-EM structure of the DDB1-DCAF15-DDA1 core ligase complex bound to RBM39 and E7820 at a resolution of 4.4 Å, together with crystal structures of engineered subcomplexes. We show that DCAF15 adopts a new fold stabilized by DDA1, and that extensive protein-protein contacts between the ligase and substrate mitigate low affinity interactions between aryl-sulfonamides and DCAF15. Our data demonstrate how aryl-sulfonamides neo-functionalize a shallow, non-conserved pocket on DCAF15 to selectively bind and degrade RBM39 and the closely related splicing factor RBM23 without the requirement for a high-affinity ligand, which has broad implications for the de novo discovery of molecular glue degraders. |
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Methods | EM (single particle) / X-ray diffraction |
Resolution | 2.9 - 10.0 Å |
Structure data | ![]() EMDB-20553: ![]() EMDB-20554: ![]() PDB-6q0r: ![]() PDB-6q0v: ![]() PDB-6q0w: |
Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-OXM: ![]() ChemComp-O6M: ![]() ChemComp-ZN: ![]() ChemComp-HOH: ![]() ChemComp-P7M: ![]() ChemComp-EF6: |
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![]() | LIGASE / Ubiquitin / homeostasis / targeted protein degradation |