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Targeting the Genome-Stability Hub Ctf4 by Stapled-Peptide Design.

Accepted version
Peer-reviewed

Type

Article

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Authors

Wu, Yuteng 
Villa, Fabrizio 
Maman, Joseph 
Lau, Yu Heng 
Dobnikar, Lina 

Abstract

The exploitation of synthetic lethality by small-molecule targeting of pathways that maintain genomic stability is an attractive chemotherapeutic approach. The Ctf4/AND-1 protein hub, which links DNA replication, repair, and chromosome segregation, represents a novel target for the synthetic lethality approach. Herein, we report the design, optimization, and validation of double-click stapled peptides encoding the Ctf4-interacting peptide (CIP) of the replicative helicase subunit Sld5. By screening stapling positions in the Sld5 CIP, we identified an unorthodox i,i+6 stapled peptide with improved, submicromolar binding to Ctf4. The mode of interaction with Ctf4 was confirmed by a crystal structure of the stapled Sld5 peptide bound to Ctf4. The stapled Sld5 peptide was able to displace the Ctf4 partner DNA polymerase α from the replisome in yeast extracts. Our study provides proof-of-principle evidence for the development of small-molecule inhibitors of the human CTF4 orthologue AND-1.

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Keywords

Ctf4 protein, chemical biology, chromosome stability, protein-protein interactions, stapled peptides, Amino Acid Motifs, Binding Sites, Crystallography, X-Ray, DNA Polymerase I, DNA-Binding Proteins, Diazonium Compounds, Fluorescence Polarization, Genomic Instability, Humans, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Peptides, Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins

Journal Title

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

Conference Name

Journal ISSN

1433-7851
1521-3773

Volume Title

56

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (104641/Z/14/Z)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K039520/1)
European Research Council (279337)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P020291/1)