ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2016
Structural Plasticity of Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Assists the Lipid Transfer Activity.
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- Discovery of novel cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitors by a multi-stage virtual screening.BMC chemistry · 2024Article
- Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein (CETP) Variations in Relation to Lipid Profiles and Cardiovascular Diseases: An Update.Current pharmaceutical design · 2024Review
- Computational exploration ofFrontiers in chemistry · 2024Article
- Dissecting the Structural Dynamics of Authentic Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein for the Discovery of Potential Lead Compounds: A Theoretical Study.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Structure-based mechanism and inhibition of cholesteryl ester transfer protein.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2023Review
- HDL and Cholesterol Ester Transfer Protein (CETP).Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2022Article
- Human cholesteryl ester transport protein transgene promotes macrophage reverse cholesterol transport in C57BL/6 mice and phospholipid transfer protein gene knockout mice.Journal of physiology and biochemistry · 2021Article
- Dynamics-function relationship in the catalytic domains of N-terminal acetyltransferases.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2020Article
- Characterization of Lipid-Protein Interactions and Lipid-Mediated Modulation of Membrane Protein Function through Molecular Simulation.Chemical reviews · 2019Review
- Structural basis of the lipid transfer mechanism of phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP).Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids · 2018Article
- Cholesteryl ester transfer protein and its inhibitors.Journal of lipid research · 2018Review
- Assessing the mechanisms of cholesteryl ester transfer protein inhibitors.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids · 2017Article
- Tubular lipid binding proteins (TULIPs) growing everywhere.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular cell research · 2017Review
- How cholesteryl ester transfer protein can also be a potential triglyceride transporter.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) mediates the transfer of cholesteryl esters (CEs) and triglycerides between different lipoproteins. Recent studies have shown that blocking the function of CETP can increase the level of HDL cholesterol in blood plasma and suppress the risk of cardiovascular disease. Hence, understanding the structure, dynamics, and mechanism by which CETP transfers the neutral lipids has received tremendous attention in last decade. Although the recent crystal structure has provided direct evidence of the existence of strongly bound CEs in the CETP core, very little is known about the mechanism of CE/triglyceride transfer by CETP. In this study, we explore the large scale dynamics of CETP by means of multimicrosecond molecular dynamics simulations and normal mode analysis, which provided a wealth of detailed information about the lipid transfer mechanism of CETP. Results show that the bound CEs intraconvert between bent and linear conformations in the CETP core tunnel as a consequence of the high degree of conformational flexibility of the protein. During the conformational switching, there occurred a significant reduction in hydrophobic contacts between the CEs and CETP, and a continuous tunnel traversing across the CETP long axis appeared spontaneously. Thus, our results support the recently proposed "tunnel mechanism" of CETP from cryo-EM studies for the transfer of neutral lipids between different lipoproteins. The detailed understanding obtained here could help in devising methods to prevent CETP function as a cardiovascular disease therapeutic.
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