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ReviewJournal of molecular biology2022

Allostery: Allosteric Cancer Drivers and Innovative Allosteric Drugs.

Ruth Nussinov, Mingzhen Zhang, Ryan Maloney, Yonglan Liu, Chung-Jung Tsai, Hyunbum Jang

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Review in Journal of molecular biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Origins of allostery in vertebrate hemoglobin evolution.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  10. How residence time works in allosteric drugs.Current opinion in structural biology · 2025
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  11. Tumors and their microenvironments: Learning from pediatric brain pathologies.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Reviews on cancer · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ruth NussinovComputational Structural Biology Section, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in the Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA; Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. Electronic address: NussinoR@mail.nih.gov.
Mingzhen ZhangComputational Structural Biology Section, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in the Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Ryan MaloneyComputational Structural Biology Section, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in the Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Yonglan LiuComputational Structural Biology Section, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in the Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Chung-Jung TsaiComputational Structural Biology Section, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in the Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Hyunbum JangComputational Structural Biology Section, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in the Laboratory of Cancer Immunometabolism, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.

Funding

Protein Structure, Stability, and Amyloid FormationZIABC010440 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSINOV, RUTH · 2009 to 2025
$11.8M
Biomolecular Recognition and Binding MechanismsZIABC010441 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSINOV, RUTH · 2009 to 2025
$9.4M
Protein Structure, Stability, and Amyloid FormationZ01BC010440 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI NUSSINOV, RUTH · 2002 to 2008
$1.4M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 BC010440NCI NIH HHS HHSN261201500003CNCI NIH HHS HHSN261201500003I
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Here, we discuss the principles of allosteric activating mutations, propagation downstream of the signals that they prompt, and allosteric drugs, with examples from the Ras signaling network. We focus on Abl kinase where mutations shift the landscape toward the active, imatinib binding-incompetent conformation, likely resulting in the high affinity ATP outcompeting drug binding. Recent pharmacological innovation extends to allosteric inhibitor (GNF-5)-linked PROTAC, targeting Bcr-Abl1 myristoylation site, and broadly, allosteric heterobifunctional degraders that destroy targets, rather than inhibiting them. Designed chemical linkers in bifunctional degraders can connect the allosteric ligand that binds the target protein and the E3 ubiquitin ligase warhead anchor. The physical properties and favored conformational state of the engineered linker can precisely coordinate the distance and orientation between the target and the recruited E3. Allosteric PROTACs, noncompetitive molecular glues, and bitopic ligands, with covalent links of allosteric ligands and orthosteric warheads, increase the effective local concentration of productively oriented and placed ligands. Through covalent chemical or peptide linkers, allosteric drugs can collaborate with competitive drugs, degrader anchors, or other molecules of choice, driving innovative drug discovery.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsFusion Proteins, bcr-ablNeoplasmsProtein Kinase InhibitorsAllosteric RegulationDrug DiscoveryHumansLigandsMutationProteolysisAntineoplastic AgentsFusion Proteins, bcr-ablLigandsProtein Kinase Inhibitorsallosteric molecular gluesallosteric PROTACautoinhibitionensembleskinase drug discovery

Identifiers

PMID35378118
PMCPMC9398924

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