- PMID:
17139078
- Authors:
- Evdokimov AG, Pokross M, Walter R, Mekel M, Cox B, Li C, Bechard R, Genbauffe F, Andrews R, Diven C, Howard B, Rastogi V, Gray J, Maier M, Peters KG
- Title:
- Engineering the catalytic domain of human protein tyrosine phosphatase beta for structure-based drug discovery.
- Journal:
- Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2006 Dec;62(Pt 12):1435-45. Epub 2006, Nov 23.
- Abstract:
- Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) play roles in many biological processes and are considered to be important targets for drug discovery. As inhibitor development has proven challenging, crystal structure-based design will be very helpful to advance inhibitor potency and selectivity. Successful application of protein crystallography to drug discovery heavily relies on high-quality crystal structures of the protein of interest complexed with pharmaceutically interesting ligands. It is very important to be able to produce protein-ligand crystals rapidly and reproducibly for as many ligands as necessary. This study details our efforts to engineer the catalytic domain of human protein tyrosine phosphatase beta (HPTPbeta-CD) with properties suitable for rapid-turnaround crystallography. Structures of apo HPTPbeta-CD and its complexes with several novel small-molecule inhibitors are presented here for the first time.