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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2020

Tumorigenic p53 mutants undergo common structural disruptions including conversion to α-sheet structure.

Dennis Bromley, Valerie Daggett

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. An integrated view of p53 dynamics, function, and reactivation.Current opinion in structural biology · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dennis BromleyDivision of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Valerie DaggettDivision of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5116-6102
University of Washington · US

Funding

University of Washington Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Research Training ProgramT15LM007442 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI JOHN H. GENNARI, Andrea L. Hartzler · 2002 to 2026
$19.6M
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF PROTEIN UNFOLDINGR01GM050789 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DAGGETT, VALERIE D · 2000 to 2014
$3.9M
MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF PROTEIN UNFOLDINGR29GM050789 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI DAGGETT, VALERIE D · 1995 to 1999
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NIGMS NIH HHS GMS 50789NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM050789NIGMS NIH HHS R29 GM050789NLM NIH HHS 5T15LM007442NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007442
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The p53 protein is a commonly studied cancer target because of its role in tumor suppression. Unfortunately, it is susceptible to mutation-associated loss of function; approximately 50% of cancers are associated with mutations to p53, the majority of which are located in the central DNA-binding domain. Here, we report molecular dynamics simulations of wild-type (WT) p53 and 20 different mutants, including a stabilized pseudo-WT mutant. Our findings indicate that p53 mutants tend to exacerbate latent structural-disruption tendencies, or vulnerabilities, already present in the WT protein, suggesting that it may be possible to develop cancer therapies by targeting a relatively small set of structural-disruption motifs rather than a multitude of effects specific to each mutant. In addition, α-sheet secondary structure formed in almost all of the proteins. α-Sheet has been hypothesized and recently demonstrated to play a role in amyloidogenesis, and its presence in the reported p53 simulations coincides with the recent re-consideration of cancer as an amyloid disease.

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Molecular Dynamics SimulationMutationHumansProtein DomainsProtein Structure, SecondaryTumor Suppressor Protein p53TP53 protein, humanTumor Suppressor Protein p53aggregationcancermolecular dynamicsvisual analyticsα-sheet

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PMID32715544
PMCPMC7454552
OpenAlexW3045673299

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