Whitesell, Luke and Robbins, Nicole and Huang, David S and McLellan, Catherine A and Shekhar-Guturja, Tanvi and LeBlanc, Emmanuelle V and Nation, Catherine S and Hui, Raymond and Hutchinson, Ashley and Collins, Cathy and Chatterjee, Sharanya and Trilles, Richard and Xie, Jinglin L and Krysan, Damian J and Lindquist, Susan and Porco, John A and Tatu, Utpal and Brown, Lauren E and Pizarro, Juan and Cowen, Leah E (2019) Structural basis for species-selective targeting of Hsp90 in a pathogenic fungus. In: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 10 .
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Abstract
New strategies are needed to counter the escalating threat posed by drug-resistant fungi. The molecular chaperone Hsp90 affords a promising target because it supports survival, virulence and drug-resistance across diverse pathogens. Inhibitors of human Hsp90 under development as anticancer therapeutics, however, exert host toxicities that preclude their use as antifungals. Seeking a route to species-selectivity, we investigate the nucleotide-binding domain (NBD) of Hsp90 from the most common human fungal pathogen, Candida albicans. Here we report structures for this NBD alone, in complex with ADP or in complex with known Hsp90 inhibitors. Encouraged by the conformational flexibility revealed by these structures, we synthesize an inhibitor with >25-fold binding-selectivity for fungal Hsp90 NBD. Comparing co-crystals occupied by this probe vs. anticancer Hsp90 inhibitors revealed major, previously unreported conformational rearrangements. These insights and our probe's species-selectivity in culture support the feasibility of targeting Hsp90 as a promising antifungal strategy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS |
| Publisher: | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Biochemistry |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2019 05:50 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2019 05:50 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/61697 |
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