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29UU

KAT8 MUTANT (KAT6A SURROGATE, MYST-CRYST) IN COMPLEX WITH KAT6A INHIBITOR Example-41

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Summary for 29UU
Entry DOI10.2210/pdb29uu/pdb
Related29TM 29TN 29UT
DescriptorHistone acetyltransferase KAT8, ZINC ION, 7-iodanyl-N-[(2R)-2-(1,3-oxazol-2-yl)-2-phenyl-ethyl]-1,1-bis(oxidanylidene)-2H-1$l^{6},2,4-benzothiadiazine-3-carboxamide, ... (7 entities in total)
Functional Keywordshistone acetyltransferase, small molecule inhibitor, transferase-transferase inhibitor complex, transferase
Biological sourceHomo sapiens (human)
Total number of polymer chains1
Total formula weight33784.00
Authors
Hillig, R.C.,Puetter, V. (deposition date: 2026-04-09, release date: 2026-09-09)
Primary citationPuetter, V.,Bouche, L.,Nowak-Reppel, K.,Ferrara, S.J.,Gradl, S.N.,Korr, D.,Strathdee, C.A.,Ter Laak, A.,Hillig, R.C.
KAT6A-inhibitor co-crystal structures: tackling a challenging crystallization target via two alternative approaches.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol, 2026
Cited by
PubMed Abstract: The histone lysine acetyltransferase KAT6A belongs to the MYST family of lysine acetyltransferases which consists of five isoforms. KAT6A (and its paralog KAT6B) have emerged as a promising epigenetic drug targets in cancer, supported by recent clinical data. As support for our high-throughput screening approach aimed at discovering new inhibitors of KAT6A, we developed a crystallization platform system termed KAT6A in which four surface cysteine residues of KAT6A were mutated to serine. This construct crystallizes readily when in complex with its cofactor AcCoA. The obtained co-crystals were successfully used in a back-soaking approach in which AcCoA was soaked out of the crystals and small-molecule inhibitors were soaked in. In parallel, we explored a previously published surrogate approach termed MYST in which active-site residues of the related, but easier to crystallize, enzyme KAT8 were mutated to those found in KAT6A. By comparing co-crystal structures of the same ligand bound to KAT6A from our Cys-to-Ser approach and to mutated KAT8 (MYST) we found that the KAT8 surrogate approach indeed successfully reproduced the binding mode observed in the KAT6A structure, while delivering structures with significantly higher resolution. The MYST approach was therefore employed to determine the binding modes of two further small-molecule inhibitors, both from our KAT6A inhibitor optimization program and from a competitor lead series. These structures reveal alternative inhibitor conformations at the binding-site entry and the importance of filling a hydrophobic subpocket in the interior of the binding pocket. These insights will aid future efforts towards the development of KAT6A inhibitors as anticancer drugs.
PubMed: 42657771
DOI: 10.1107/S2059798326008545
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