Crystallization and structure of ebselen bound to cysteine 141 of human inositol monophosphatase (IMPase).
Gareth D. Fenn, Helen Waller-Evans, John R. Atack and Benjamin D. Bax [1]
Molecular Tour
Inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) is inhibited by lithium, the most efficacious treatment for bipolar disorder. Several therapies have been approved, or are going through clinical trials, aimed at the replacement of lithium in the treatment of bipolar disorder. One candidate small molecule is ebselen, a selenium-containing antioxidant, which has been demonstrated to produce lithium-like effects, both in a murine model and in clinical trials.
View of ebselen attached to Cys141 (PDB entry 6zk0):
Chemical structures of ebselen and ring-open ebselen on Cys141 (drawn with Marvin, https://www.chemaxon.com).(c) Final ebselen omit map (Fo-Fc) (3 sigma green, 15 sigma blue). Note peaks on seleniums (blue mesh) are 20.5 and 19.6 sigma in this ebselen omit map. (d) Original DIMPLE (Wojdyr et al., 2013[2]) 2Fo-Fc map (1sigma – light blue), and difference map Fo-Fc (3 sigma - orange). For subunit A the DIMPLE refined structure with waters (small red spheres) refined into the density for the ebselen is shown. For the A' subunit the 'final' coordinates (including ebselen) are shown.
Here we present the crystallization and first structure of human IMPase covalently complexed with ebselen, a 1.47 Å crystal structure (PDB entry 6zk0). In the human-IMPase-complex ebselen, in a ring opened conformation, is covalently attached to Cys141, a residue located away from the active site.
IMPase is a dimeric enzyme and, in the crystal structure, two adjacent dimers share four ebselen molecules, creating a tetramer with ~222 symmetry. In the crystal structure presented in this publication, the active site in the tetramer is still accessible, suggesting that ebselen may function as an allosteric inhibitor, or may block the binding of partner proteins.
Orthogonal views of IMPase dimer showing ebselen on Cys141 and metal ions in the active sites based on the structure of PDB entry 6zk0:
Orthogonal views of IMPase tetramer showing ebselen on Cys141 and metal ions in the active sites based on the structure of PDB entry 6zk0:
Tetramer, 1st orientation. The two subunits in the dimer are shown as green (subunit A) and cyan (subunit B) cartoons with ebselen attached to Cys141A and Cys141B in space-fill. Subunit A' is in yellow and B' in magenta. Metal ions (Mn2+/Na+) at each active site are shown as spheres.
Orthogonal view. This view is along the crystallographic twofold that rotates the A-B dimer (green/cyan) onto the A'-B' dimer (yellow-magenta).
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