Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Increased slow dynamics defines ligandability of BTB domains

  • Vladlena Kharchenko,
  • Brian M. Linhares,
  • Megan Borregard,
  • Iwona Czaban,
  • Jolanta Grembecka,
  • Mariusz Jaremko,
  • Tomasz Cierpicki,
  • Łukasz Jaremko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34599-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here, the authors discover that ligandability of BTB domains correlates with the presence of μs-ms time scale dynamics. This finding suggests that protein dynamics may be a broadly applicable tool in drug discovery to assess the ligandability of novel and challenging targets.