ジャーナル: Cell / 年: 2022 タイトル: BacPROTACs mediate targeted protein degradation in bacteria. 著者: Francesca E Morreale / Stefan Kleine / Julia Leodolter / Sabryna Junker / David M Hoi / Stepan Ovchinnikov / Anastasia Okun / Juliane Kley / Robert Kurzbauer / Lukas Junk / Somraj Guha / ...著者: Francesca E Morreale / Stefan Kleine / Julia Leodolter / Sabryna Junker / David M Hoi / Stepan Ovchinnikov / Anastasia Okun / Juliane Kley / Robert Kurzbauer / Lukas Junk / Somraj Guha / David Podlesainski / Uli Kazmaier / Guido Boehmelt / Harald Weinstabl / Klaus Rumpel / Volker M Schmiedel / Markus Hartl / David Haselbach / Anton Meinhart / Markus Kaiser / Tim Clausen / 要旨: Hijacking the cellular protein degradation system offers unique opportunities for drug discovery, as exemplified by proteolysis-targeting chimeras. Despite their great promise for medical chemistry, ...Hijacking the cellular protein degradation system offers unique opportunities for drug discovery, as exemplified by proteolysis-targeting chimeras. Despite their great promise for medical chemistry, so far, it has not been possible to reprogram the bacterial degradation machinery to interfere with microbial infections. Here, we develop small-molecule degraders, so-called BacPROTACs, that bind to the substrate receptor of the ClpC:ClpP protease, priming neo-substrates for degradation. In addition to their targeting function, BacPROTACs activate ClpC, transforming the resting unfoldase into its functional state. The induced higher-order oligomer was visualized by cryo-EM analysis, providing a structural snapshot of activated ClpC unfolding a protein substrate. Finally, drug susceptibility and degradation assays performed in mycobacteria demonstrate in vivo activity of BacPROTACs, allowing selective targeting of endogenous proteins via fusion to an established degron. In addition to guiding antibiotic discovery, the BacPROTAC technology presents a versatile research tool enabling the inducible degradation of bacterial proteins.
EMPIAR-11068 (タイトル: Single particle Data of the activated B. subtilis ClpC arranged as a tetramer of hexamers Data size: 4.9 TB Data #1: Unaligned Multiframe micrographs [micrographs - multiframe])