3WGW

Structure of PCNA bound to a small molecule inhibitor

Summary for 3WGW

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb3wgw/pdb
• Descriptor: Proliferating cell nuclear antigen, 4-{4-[(2S)-2-amino-3-hydroxypropyl]-2,6-diiodophenoxy}phenol, SULFATE ION, ... (4 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: dna binding, dna binding protein-inhibitor complex, dna binding protein/inhibitor
• Biological source: Homo sapiens (human)
• Total number of polymer chains: 2
• Total formula weight: 59316.91

Authors

Hashimoto, H. (deposition date: 2013-08-12, release date: 2014-02-05, Last modification date: 2023-11-08)

Primary citation

Inoue, A.,Kikuchi, S.,Hishiki, A.,Shao, Y.,Heath, R.,Evison, B.J.,Actis, M.,Canman, C.E.,Hashimoto, H.,Fujii, N.
A small molecule inhibitor of monoubiquitinated Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen (PCNA) inhibits repair of interstrand DNA cross-link, enhances DNA double strand break, and sensitizes cancer cells to cisplatin.
J.Biol.Chem., 289:7109-7120, 2014

PubMed Abstract: Small molecule inhibitors of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)/PCNA interacting protein box (PIP-Box) interactions, including T2 amino alcohol (T2AA), inhibit translesion DNA synthesis. The crystal structure of PCNA in complex with T2AA revealed that T2AA bound to the surface adjacent to the subunit interface of the homotrimer of PCNA in addition to the PIP-box binding cavity. Because this site is close to Lys-164, which is monoubiquitinated by RAD18, we postulated that T2AA would affect monoubiquitinated PCNA interactions. Binding of monoubiquitinated PCNA and a purified pol η fragment containing the UBZ and PIP-box was inhibited by T2AA in vitro. T2AA decreased PCNA/pol η and PCNA/REV1 chromatin colocalization but did not inhibit PCNA monoubiquitination, suggesting that T2AA hinders interactions of pol η and REV1 with monoubiquitinated PCNA. Interstrand DNA cross-links (ICLs) are repaired by mechanisms using translesion DNA synthesis that is regulated by monoubiquitinated PCNA. T2AA significantly delayed reactivation of a reporter plasmid containing an ICL. Neutral comet analysis of cells receiving T2AA in addition to cisplatin revealed that T2AA significantly enhanced formation of DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) by cisplatin. T2AA promoted colocalized foci formation of phospho-ATM and 53BP1 and up-regulated phospho-BRCA1 in cisplatin-treated cells, suggesting that T2AA increases DSBs. When cells were treated by cisplatin and T2AA, their clonogenic survival was significantly less than that of those treated by cisplatin only. These findings show that the inhibitors of monoubiquitinated PCNA chemosensitize cells by inhibiting repair of ICLs and DSBs.

PubMed: 24474685
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.520429

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.8 Å)