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==Room temperature serial crystal structure of Glutaminase C in complex with inhibitor UPGL-00004==
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== Structural highlights ==
<table><tr><td colspan='2'>[[7ren]] is a 4 chain structure with sequence from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens Homo sapiens]. Full crystallographic information is available from [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocashort?id=7REN OCA]. For a <b>guided tour on the structure components</b> use [https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=7REN FirstGlance]. <br>
</td></tr><tr id='method'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Empirical_models|Method:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="methodDat">X-ray diffraction, [[Resolution|Resolution]] 2.8&#8491;</td></tr>
<tr id='ligand'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>[[Ligand|Ligands:]]</b></td><td class="sblockDat" id="ligandDat"><scene name='pdbligand=B4A:2-phenyl-N-{5-[4-({5-[(phenylacetyl)amino]-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl}amino)piperidin-1-yl]-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl}acetamide'>B4A</scene></td></tr>
<tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=7ren FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=7ren OCA], [https://pdbe.org/7ren PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=7ren RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/7ren PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=7ren ProSAT]</span></td></tr>
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== Function ==
[https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/GLSK_HUMAN GLSK_HUMAN] Catalyzes the first reaction in the primary pathway for the renal catabolism of glutamine. Plays a role in maintaining acid-base homeostasis. Regulates the levels of the neurotransmitter glutamate in the brain. Isoform 2 lacks catalytic activity.
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== Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
Cancer cells frequently exhibit uncoupling of the glycolytic pathway from the TCA cycle (i.e., the "Warburg effect") and as a result, often become dependent on their ability to increase glutamine catabolism. The mitochondrial enzyme Glutaminase C (GAC) helps to satisfy this 'glutamine addiction' of cancer cells by catalyzing the hydrolysis of glutamine to glutamate, which is then converted to the TCA-cycle intermediate alpha-ketoglutarate. This makes GAC an intriguing drug target and spurred the molecules derived from bis-2-(5-phenylacetamido-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)ethyl sulfide (the so-called BPTES class of allosteric GAC inhibitors), including CB-839, which is currently in clinical trials. However, none of the drugs targeting GAC are yet approved for cancer treatment and their mechanism of action is not well understood. Here, we shed new light on the underlying basis for the differential potencies exhibited by members of the BPTES/CB-839 family of compounds, which could not previously be explained with standard cryo-cooled X-ray crystal structures of GAC bound to CB-839 or its analogs. Using an emerging technique known as serial room temperature crystallography, we were able to observe clear differences between the binding conformations of inhibitors with significantly different potencies. We also developed a computational model to further elucidate the molecular basis of differential inhibitor potency. We then corroborated the results from our modeling efforts using recently established fluorescence assays that directly read out inhibitor binding to GAC. Together, these findings should aid in future design of more potent GAC inhibitors with better clinical outlook.

New insights into the molecular mechanisms of glutaminase C inhibitors in cancer cells using serial room temperature crystallography.,Milano SK, Huang Q, Nguyen TT, Ramachandran S, Finke A, Kriksunov I, Schuller DJ, Szebenyi DM, Arenholz E, McDermott LA, Sukumar N, Cerione RA, Katt WP J Biol Chem. 2022 Feb;298(2):101535. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101535. Epub 2021, Dec 24. PMID:34954143<ref>PMID:34954143</ref>

From MEDLINE&reg;/PubMed&reg;, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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==See Also==
*[[Glutaminase 3D structures|Glutaminase 3D structures]]
== References ==
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[[Category: Homo sapiens]]
[[Category: Large Structures]]
[[Category: Cerione RA]]
[[Category: Finke A]]
[[Category: Milano SK]]