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Allostery in Its Many Disguises: From Theory to Applications

  • Shoshana J. Wodak*
  • , Emanuele Paci
  • , Nikolay V. Dokholyan
  • , Igor N. Berezovsky
  • , Amnon Horovitz
  • , Jing Li
  • , Vincent J. Hilser
  • , Ivet Bahar
  • , John Karanicolas
  • , Gerhard Stock
  • , Peter Hamm
  • , Roland H. Stote
  • , Jerome Eberhardt
  • , Yassmine Chebaro
  • , Annick Dejaegere
  • , Marco Cecchini
  • , Jean Pierre Changeux
  • , Peter G. Bolhuis
  • , Jocelyne Vreede
  • , Pietro Faccioli
  • Simone Orioli, Riccardo Ravasio, Le Yan, Carolina Brito, Matthieu Wyart, Paraskevi Gkeka, Ivan Rivalta, Giulia Palermo, J. Andrew McCammon, Joanna Panecka-Hofman, Rebecca C. Wade, Antonella Di Pizio, Masha Y. Niv, Ruth Nussinov, Chung Jung Tsai, Hyunbum Jang, Dzmitry Padhorny, Dima Kozakov, Tom McLeish
*Corresponding author for this work
  • Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
  • University of Leeds
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • National University of Singapore
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Zurich
  • Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire
  • Université de Strasbourg
  • Collège de France
  • University of Amsterdam
  • University of Trento
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
  • University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Sanofi-Aventis
  • École normale supérieure de Lyon
  • University of California at San Diego
  • University of California at Riverside
  • University of Warsaw
  • Heidelberg University 
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Stony Brook University
  • University of York

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Abstract

Allosteric regulation plays an important role in many biological processes, such as signal transduction, transcriptional regulation, and metabolism. Allostery is rooted in the fundamental physical properties of macromolecular systems, but its underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. A collection of contributions to a recent interdisciplinary CECAM (Center Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) workshop is used here to provide an overview of the progress and remaining limitations in the understanding of the mechanistic foundations of allostery gained from computational and experimental analyses of real protein systems and model systems. The main conceptual frameworks instrumental in driving the field are discussed. We illustrate the role of these frameworks in illuminating molecular mechanisms and explaining cellular processes, and describe some of their promising practical applications in engineering molecular sensors and informing drug design efforts. A collection of contributions to a recent interdisciplinary CECAM (Center Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) workshop offers an insightful overview of the understanding of the mechanistic foundations of allostery, gained from computational and experimental analyses of real protein systems and model systems. Various practical applications are illustrated.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)566-578
Number of pages13
JournalStructure
Volume27
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Apr 2019

Funding

FundersFunder number
Centre Européen pour le Calcul Atomic et Moléculaire
Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing IWR
Universität Heidelberg
KGF
Klaus Tschira Stiftung
National Institutes of Health
European Commission
Swiss Industry Science Foundation
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe AISBL
Combination of Collaborative Project and Coordination and Support Actions
Horizon 2020
European Regional Development FundFP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 09ΣΥN 11-675
National Institute of General Medical SciencesR01GM114015, R01GM123247, R01GM031749, R01GM064803, P41GM103712
National Cancer Institute494/16, HHSN261200800001E, ISF-NSFC 2463/16
National Institute on Drug AbuseP30DA035778
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme720270
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilEP/N031431/2
Iowa Science Foundation2463/16
Seventh Framework Programme256533, INFRA-2010-1.2.3
CP-CSARI-261600
Norges IdrettshøgskoleNIG GM31749, R01GM114015, P30DA035778, R01GM123247, R01GM064803, P41GM103712
Polish National Science Centre2016/21/D/NZ1/02806

    Keywords

    • Allostery
    • allosteric drugs
    • allosteric material
    • allosteric switches
    • elastic network models
    • energy landscape
    • molecular dynamics
    • protein conformational changes
    • protein function
    • regulation
    • signal transduction

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