Mechanism of Competition between Nutlin3 and p53 for Binding with Mdm2

doi:10.1088/0256-307X/34/11/118701

Chin. Phys. Lett.

2017, Vol. 34

Issue (11): 118701 DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/34/11/118701

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mechanism of Competition between Nutlin3 and p53 for Binding with Mdm2

Shu-Xia Liu¹, Shi-Wei Yan^2**

¹College of Nuclear Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
²Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875

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Shu-Xia Liu, Shi-Wei Yan 2017 Chin. Phys. Lett. 34 118701

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Abstract The tumour suppressor p53 is a transcription factor that regulates multiple biological functions including metabolism, DNA repair, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis and senescence. About half of human cancers show a normal TP53 gene and aberrant overexpression of Mdm2. This fact promotes a promising cancer therapeutic strategy by inhibiting the interactions between p53 and Mdm2. Various inhibitors have been designed to achieve this novel approach for cancer therapy. However, the detailed competition mechanism between these inhibitors and the p53 molecule in their binding process to Mdm2 is still unclear. We investigate this competition mechanism between Nutlin3 and p53 using molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that Nutlin3 binds faster than the p53 molecule to Mdm2 to prevent p53 binding to Mdm2 when Nutlin3 and p53 have equal distance from Mdm2. Nutlin3 can also bind to the p53-Mdm2 complex to disturb and weaken the interactions between p53 and Mdm2. Consequently, p53 cannot bind to Mdm2 and its tumour suppression function is reactivated. These results provide the detailed competition mechanism between Nutlin3 and p53 in their binding to Mdm2. Because the binding site of most other inhibitors to Mdm2 is the same as Nutlin3, therefore this competition mechanism can extend to most inhibitors which target the p53-Mdm2 interaction.

Received: 11 July 2017 Published: 25 October 2017

PACS:	87.19.xj	(Cancer)
	87.10.Tf	(Molecular dynamics simulation)
	87.15.km	(Protein-protein interactions)

Fund: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 11675018, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant No 1172008, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No 2015KJJCB01.

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