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@ARTICLE{Cong:820508,
author = {Cong, Xiaojing and Cremer, Christian and Nachreiner, Thomas
and Barth, Stefan and Carloni, Paolo},
title = {{E}ngineered human angiogenin mutations in the placental
ribonuclease inhibitor complex for anticancer therapy:
{I}nsights from enhanced sampling simulations},
journal = {Protein science},
volume = {25},
number = {8},
issn = {0961-8368},
address = {Hoboken, NJ},
publisher = {Wiley},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-05801},
pages = {1451 - 1460},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Targeted human cytolytic fusion proteins (hCFPs) represent
a new generation of immunotoxins (ITs) for the specific
targeting and elimination of malignant cell populations.
Unlike conventional ITs, hCFPs comprise a human/humanized
target cell-specific binding moiety (e.g., an antibody or a
fragment thereof) fused to a human proapoptotic protein as
the cytotoxic domain (effector domain). Therefore, hCFPs are
humanized ITs expected to have low immunogenicity. This
reduces side effects and allows long-term application. The
human ribonuclease angiogenin (Ang) has been shown to be a
promising effector domain candidate. However, the
application of Ang-based hCFPs is largely hampered by the
intracellular placental ribonuclease inhibitor (RNH1). It
rapidly binds and inactivates Ang. Mutations altering Ang's
affinity for RNH1 modulate the cytotoxicity of Ang-based
hCFPs. Here we perform in total 2.7 µs replica-exchange
molecular dynamics simulations to investigate some of these
mutations—G85R/G86R (GGRRmut), Q117G (QGmut), and
G85R/G86R/Q117G (GGRR/QGmut). GGRRmut turns out to perturb
greatly the overall Ang-RNH1 interactions, whereas QGmut
optimizes them. Combining QGmut with GGRRmut compensates the
effects of the latter. Our results explain the in vitro
finding that, while Ang GGRRmut-based hCFPs resist RNH1
inhibition remarkably, Ang WT- and Ang QGmut-based ones are
similarly sensitive to RNH1 inhibition, whereas Ang
GGRR/QGmut-based ones are only slightly resistant. This work
may help design novel Ang mutants with reduced affinity for
RNH1 and improved cytotoxicity.},
cin = {IAS-5 / INM-9},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-5-20120330 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-9-20140121},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF3-899)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-899},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000380068700009},
pubmed = {pmid:27110669},
doi = {10.1002/pro.2941},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/820508},
}