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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2017

Insights into the Effect of the G245S Single Point Mutation on the Structure of p53 and the Binding of the Protein to DNA.

Marco Gaetano Lepre, Sara Ibrahim Omar, Gianvito Grasso, Umberto Morbiducci, Marco Agostino Deriu, Jack A Tuszynski

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Marco Gaetano LepreDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy. s214201@studenti.polito.it.
Sara Ibrahim OmarDepartment of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada. siomar@ualberta.ca.
Gianvito GrassoIstituto Dalle Molle di studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI), Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Centro Galleria 2, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland. gianvito.grasso@supsi.ch.
Umberto MorbiducciDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy. umberto.morbiducci@polito.it.
Marco Agostino DeriuDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, 10129 Torino, Italy. marco.deriu@polito.it.
Jack A TuszynskiDepartment of Oncology, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada. jackt@ualberta.ca.
Politecnico di Torino · ITUniversity of Alberta · CAUniversity of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland · CH

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transcription factor p53 is a potent tumor suppressor dubbed as the "guardian of the genome" because of its ability to orchestrate protective biological outputs in response to a variety of oncogenic stresses. Mutation and thus inactivation of p53 can be found in 50% of human tumors. The majority are missense mutations located in the DNA binding region. Among them, G245S is known to be a structural hotspot mutation. To understand the behaviors and differences between the wild-type and mutant, both a dimer of the wild type p53 (wt-p53) and its G245S mutant (G245S-mp53), complexed with DNA, were simulated using molecular dynamics for more than 1 μs. wt-p53 and G245S-mp53 apo monomers were simulated for 1 μs as well. Conformational analyses and binding energy evaluations performed underline important differences and therefore provide insights to understand the G245S-mp53 loss of function. Our results indicate that the G245S mutation destabilizes several structural regions in the protein that are crucial for DNA binding when found in its apo form and highlight differences in the mutant-DNA complex structure compared to the wt protein. These findings not only provide means that can be applied to other p53 mutants but also serve as structural basis for further studies aimed at the development of cancer therapies based on restoring the function of p53.

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Structure-Activity RelationshipApoptosisCell Line, TumorDNADNA-Binding ProteinsHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationPoint MutationProtein BindingTranscriptional ActivationTumor Suppressor Protein p53DNADNA-Binding ProteinsTP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53functional mode analysisG245S-mp53MD simulationsp53

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