Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Predicting the structural basis of targeted protein degradation by integrating molecular dynamics simulations with structural mass spectrometry

  • Tom Dixon,
  • Derek MacPherson,
  • Barmak Mostofian,
  • Taras Dauzhenka,
  • Samuel Lotz,
  • Dwight McGee,
  • Sharon Shechter,
  • Utsab R. Shrestha,
  • Rafal Wiewiora,
  • Zachary A. McDargh,
  • Fen Pei,
  • Rajat Pal,
  • João V. Ribeiro,
  • Tanner Wilkerson,
  • Vipin Sachdeva,
  • Ning Gao,
  • Shourya Jain,
  • Samuel Sparks,
  • Yunxing Li,
  • Alexander Vinitsky,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Asghar M. Razavi,
  • István Kolossváry,
  • Jason Imbriglio,
  • Artem Evdokimov,
  • Louise Bergeron,
  • Wenchang Zhou,
  • Jagat Adhikari,
  • Benjamin Ruprecht,
  • Alex Dickson,
  • Huafeng Xu,
  • Woody Sherman,
  • Jesus A. Izaguirre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33575-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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The formation of ternary degrader-protein complexes is a key step in the targeted degradation of proteins of interest. Here, the authors explore the structure and dynamics of such complexes applying high-performance computer simulations augmented with experimental data.