Raf kinases are important cancer drug targets. Paradoxically, many B-Raf inhibitors induce the activation of Raf kinases. Cryo-electron microscopy structural analysis of a phosphorylated B-Raf kinase domain dimer in complex with dimeric 14-3-3, at a ...
Raf kinases are important cancer drug targets. Paradoxically, many B-Raf inhibitors induce the activation of Raf kinases. Cryo-electron microscopy structural analysis of a phosphorylated B-Raf kinase domain dimer in complex with dimeric 14-3-3, at a resolution of ~3.9 angstroms, shows an asymmetric arrangement in which one kinase is in a canonical "active" conformation. The distal segment of the C-terminal tail of this kinase interacts with, and blocks, the active site of the cognate kinase in this asymmetric arrangement. Deletion of the C-terminal segment reduces Raf activity. The unexpected asymmetric quaternary architecture illustrates how the paradoxical activation of Raf by kinase inhibitors reflects an innate mechanism, with 14-3-3 facilitating inhibition of one kinase while maintaining activity of the other. Conformational modulation of these contacts may provide new opportunities for Raf inhibitor development.
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Cryo-EM structure of a dimeric B-Raf:14-3-3 complex reveals asymmetry in the active sites of B-Raf kinases Kondo, Y.,Ognjenovic, J.,Banerjee, S.,Karandur, D.,Merk, A.,Kulhanek, K.,Wong, K.,Roose, J.P.,Subramaniam, S.,Kuriyan, J. (2019) Science --: --
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Laboratory of Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.,California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. kuriyan@berkeley.edu sriram.subramaniam@ubc.ca.,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada. kuriyan@berkeley.edu sriram.subramaniam@ubc.ca.,Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.,Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.,Divisions of Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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