Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Engineering selective competitors for the discrimination of highly conserved protein-protein interaction modules

  • Charlotte Rimbault,
  • Kashyap Maruthi,
  • Christelle Breillat,
  • Camille Genuer,
  • Sara Crespillo,
  • Virginia Puente-Muñoz,
  • Ingrid Chamma,
  • Isabel Gauthereau,
  • Ségolène Antoine,
  • Coraline Thibaut,
  • Fabienne Wong Jun Tai,
  • Benjamin Dartigues,
  • Dolors Grillo-Bosch,
  • Stéphane Claverol,
  • Christel Poujol,
  • Daniel Choquet,
  • Cameron D. Mackereth,
  • Matthieu Sainlos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12528-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Developing inhibitors that target specific protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is challenging. Here, the authors show that target selectivity and PPI blocking can be achieved simultaneously with PPI inhibitors that contain two functional modules, and create a paralog-selective PSD-95 inhibitor as proof-of-concept.