Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

A structural mechanism for directing corepressor-selective inverse agonism of PPARγ

  • Richard Brust,
  • Jinsai Shang,
  • Jakob Fuhrmann,
  • Sarah A. Mosure,
  • Jared Bass,
  • Andrew Cano,
  • Zahra Heidari,
  • Ian M. Chrisman,
  • Michelle D. Nemetchek,
  • Anne-Laure Blayo,
  • Patrick R. Griffin,
  • Theodore M. Kamenecka,
  • Travis S. Hughes,
  • Douglas J. Kojetin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07133-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) is a target for insulin sensitizing drugs. Here the authors combine NMR, X-ray crystallography and MD simulations and report a structural mechanism for eliciting PPARγ inverse agonism, where coactivator binding is inhibited and corepressor binding promoted, which causes PPARγ repression.