PDBsum entry 6bsd

Transferase/transferase inhibitor

PDB id: 6bsd

Contents

Protein chain

278 a.a.

Ligands

1N1

Waters ×61

References listed in PDB file

Key reference

• Title: What makes a kinase promiscuous for inhibitors?
• Authors: S.M.Hanson, G.Georghiou, M.K.Thakur, W.T.Miller, J.S.Rest, J.D.Chodera, M.A.Seeliger.
• Ref.: Cell Chem Biol, 2019, 26, 390. [DOI no: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2018.11.005]
• PubMed id: 30612951

Abstract

ATP-competitive kinase inhibitors often bind several kinases due to the high conservation of the ATP binding pocket. Through clustering analysis of a large kinome profiling dataset, we found a cluster of eight promiscuous kinases that on average bind more than five times more kinase inhibitors than the other 398 kinases in the dataset. To understand the structural basis of promiscuous inhibitor binding, we determined the co-crystal structure of the receptor tyrosine kinase DDR1 with the type I inhibitors dasatinib and VX-680. Surprisingly, we find that DDR1 binds these type I inhibitors in an inactive conformation typically reserved for type II inhibitors. Our computational and biochemical studies show that DDR1 is unusually stable in this inactive conformation, giving a mechanistic explanation for inhibitor promiscuity. This phenotypic clustering analysis provides a strategy to obtain functional insights not available by sequence comparison alone.