TY - JOUR T1 - Targeting Phosphopeptide Recognition by the Human BRCA1 Tandem BRCT Domain to Interrupt BRCA1-Dependent Signaling. JF - Cell Chem Biol Y1 - 2018 A1 - Periasamy, Jayaprakash A1 - Kurdekar, Vadiraj A1 - Jasti, Subbarao A1 - Nijaguna, Mamatha B A1 - Boggaram, Sanjana A1 - Hurakadli, Manjunath A A1 - Raina, Dhruv A1 - Kurup, Lokavya Meenakshi A1 - Chintha, Chetan A1 - Manjunath, Kavyashree A1 - Goyal, Aneesh A1 - Sadasivam, Gayathri A1 - Bharatham, Kavitha A1 - Padigaru, Muralidhara A1 - Potluri, Vijay A1 - Venkitaraman, Ashok R AB -

Intracellular signals triggered by DNA breakage flow through proteins containing BRCT (BRCA1 C-terminal) domains. This family, comprising 23 conserved phosphopeptide-binding modules in man, is inaccessible to small-molecule chemical inhibitors. Here, we develop Bractoppin, a drug-like inhibitor of phosphopeptide recognition by the human BRCA1 tandem (t)BRCT domain, which selectively inhibits substrate binding with nanomolar potency in vitro. Structure-activity exploration suggests that Bractoppin engages BRCA1 tBRCT residues recognizing pSer in the consensus motif, pSer-Pro-Thr-Phe, plus an abutting hydrophobic pocket that is distinct in structurally related BRCT domains, conferring selectivity. In cells, Bractoppin inhibits substrate recognition detected by Förster resonance energy transfer, and diminishes BRCA1 recruitment to DNA breaks, in turn suppressing damage-induced G2 arrest and assembly of the recombinase, RAD51. But damage-induced MDC1 recruitment, single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) generation, and TOPBP1 recruitment remain unaffected. Thus, an inhibitor of phosphopeptide recognition selectively interrupts BRCA1 tBRCT-dependent signals evoked by DNA damage.

VL - 25 IS - 6 ER -