5WF7

Chaetomium thermophilum Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 bound to GSK126

Summary for 5WF7

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb5wf7/pdb
• Descriptor: Polycomb Protein EED, Histone-lysine-N-methyltransferase EZH2, Polycomb protein SUZ12 chimera, ZINC ION, ... (5 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: transferase, epigenetics, complex, inhibitor, transferase-transferase inhibitor complex, transferase/transferase inhibitor
• Biological source: Chaetomium thermophilum (strain DSM 1495 / CBS 144.50 / IMI 039719); More
• Total number of polymer chains: 2
• Total formula weight: 173940.91

Authors

Bratkowski, M.A.,Liu, X. (deposition date: 2017-07-11, release date: 2018-06-27, Last modification date: 2023-10-04)

Primary citation

Bratkowski, M.,Yang, X.,Liu, X.
An Evolutionarily Conserved Structural Platform for PRC2 Inhibition by a Class of Ezh2 Inhibitors.
Sci Rep, 8:9092-9092, 2018

PubMed Abstract: Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) mediates trimethylation of histone H3K27 (H3K27me3), an epigenetic hallmark for repressed chromatin. Overactive mutants of the histone lysine methyltransferase subunit of PRC2, Ezh2, are found in various types of cancers. Pyridone-containing inhibitors such as GSK126 compete with S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) for Ezh2 binding and effectively inhibit PRC2 activity. PRC2 from the thermophilic fungus Chaetomium thermophilum (ct) is functionally similar to the human version in several regards and has the added advantage of producing high-resolution crystal structures, although inhibitor-bound structures of human or human/chameleon PRC2 are also available at up to 2.6 Å resolution. We solved crystal structures of both human and ctPRC2 bound to GSK126 and the structurally similar inhibitor GSK343. While the two organisms feature a disparate degree of inhibitor potency, surprisingly, GSK126 binds in a similar manner in both structures. Structure-guided protein engineering of the drug binding pocket allowed us to introduce humanizing mutations into ctEzh2 to produce a ctPRC2 variant that is more susceptible to GSK126 inhibition. Additional analysis indicated that an evolutionarily conserved structural platform dictates a unique mode of GSK126 binding, suggesting a mechanism of drug selectivity. The existing drug scaffold may thus be used to probe the function and cellular regulation of PRC2 in a wide spectrum of organisms, ranging from fungi to humans.

PubMed: 29904056
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-27175-w

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.5 Å)