Designing drugs and chemical probes with the dualsteric approach

J Zha, J He, C Wu, M Zhang, X Liu… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Traditionally, drugs are monovalent, targeting only one site on the protein surface. This
includes orthosteric and allosteric drugs, which bind the protein at orthosteric and allosteric …

[HTML][HTML] Autoregulation of GPCR signalling through the third intracellular loop

F Sadler, N Ma, M Ritt, Y Sharma, N Vaidehi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The third intracellular loop (ICL3) of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) fold is important
for the signal transduction process downstream of receptor activation,–. Despite this, the lack …

Allosteric communication regulates ligand‐specific GPCR activity

N Ma, AK Nivedha, N Vaidehi - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) are membrane‐bound proteins that are ubiquitously
expressed in many cell types and take part in mediating multiple signaling pathways …

[HTML][HTML] Double drugging of prolyl-tRNA synthetase provides a new paradigm for anti-infective drug development

Y Manickam, N Malhotra, S Mishra, P Babbar… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii and in immunocompromised patients it may
lead to seizures, encephalitis or death. The conserved enzyme prolyl-tRNA synthetase …

Streamlining Design, Engineering, and Applications of Nicotinamide Riboside Kinase for Sustainable Biosynthesis of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide in Flow

F Cheng, XH Wu, H Li, KX Li, Q Guo… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The market demand for β-nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN), an antiaging health product,
is rapidly expanding. Consequently, there is an urgent requirement for an environment …

Orthosteric and allosteric dual targeting of the nuclear receptor RORγt with a bitopic ligand

FA Meijer, GJM Oerlemans, L Brunsveld - ACS Chemical Biology, 2021 - ACS Publications
The RORγt nuclear receptor (NR) is of critical importance for the differentiation and
proliferation of T helper 17 (Th17) cells and their production of the pro-inflammatory cytokine …

Activation Microswitches in Adenosine Receptor A2A Function as Rheostats in the Cell Membrane

N Ma, S Lee, N Vaidehi - Biochemistry, 2020 - ACS Publications
Although multiple components of the cell membrane modulate the stability and activation of
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), insights into the dynamics of GPCR structures come …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian network models identify cooperative GPCR: G protein interactions that contribute to G protein coupling

E Mukhaleva, N Ma, WJC Van Der Velden… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - ASBMB
Cooperative interactions in protein-protein interfaces demonstrate the interdependency or
the linked network-like behavior and their effect on the coupling of proteins. Cooperative …

ER/K-link—Leveraging a native protein linker to probe dynamic cellular interactions

TM Gupte, M Ritt, S Sivaramakrishnan - Methods in enzymology, 2021 - Elsevier
ER/K α-helices are a subset of single alpha helical domains, which exhibit unusual stability
as isolated protein secondary structures. They adopt an elongated structural conformation …

[HTML][HTML] Kinase inhibitors allosterically disrupt a regulatory interaction to enhance PKCα membrane translocation

LG Lippert, N Ma, M Ritt, A Jain, N Vaidehi… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
The eukaryotic kinase domain has multiple intrinsically disordered regions whose
conformation dictates kinase activity. Small molecule kinase inhibitors (SMKIs) rely on …