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6 d’agost de 2025
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Discovery of new protein partners of anterior gradient 2 (AGR2) from cell-cell adhesion pathway using genetically-encoded photo-crosslinker DiZPK

Publicat a: BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY. 127 118225- - 2025-05-13 127(), DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2025.118225

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Ullah, Shafi; Merugu, Siva Bharath; Chen, Shiyao; Zhao, Yaxue; Li, Dawei; Zhou, Huchen
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Guangdong Med Univ, Sch Pharm, Dongguan 523808, Peoples R China - Autor o coautor
Hainan Univ, Hainan Engn Res Ctr Drug Screening & Evaluat, Sch Pharmaceut Sci, Haikou 570228, Peoples R China - Autor o coautor
Hainan Univ, Sch Pharmaceut Sci, Minist Educ, Key Lab Trop Biol Resources, Haikou 570228, Peoples R China - Autor o coautor
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Pharmaceut Sci, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China - Autor o coautor
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Anterior gradient 2 (AGR2) has recently been reported as a tumor biomarker in various cancers including breast, prostate, and lung cancers. Thus, there have been great efforts to unveil the roles of AGR2 as an extracellular signaling molecule and intracellular endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone. However, it remains challenging to capture the whole protein interactome of AGR2 because both weak and transient interacting partners tend to be washed off during purification. In order to capture weak and transient interacting protein partners, a genetically-encoded photo-crosslinker, DiZPK (3-(3-methyl-3H-diazirine-3-yl)-propaminocarbonyl-N epsilon-L-lysine), was introduced at the essential domains of AGR2. Photo-crosslinking reaction of the recombinant mutant AGR2Q85DiZPK was subsequently initiated by UV light (365 nm) in MCF-7 breast cancer cell lysate. After purification and further analysis by LC-MS/MS, we identified a number of AGR2 partner proteins that are involved in the cell-cell adhesion pathway. Namely, they are desmosomes-related proteins including gamma-catenin, desmocollin-1 (DSC-1), desmoglein-1 (DSG-1), desmoplakin (DSP), and plakophillin-1 (PKP-1). Further protein-protein interaction studies, including immunofluorescence and molecular dynamic simulation analysis, especially using gamma-catenin as an example, corroborated with the observation that AGR2 directly interacts with gamma-catenin. We believe the identification of these new protein partners would help to unveil how AGR2 renders its roles in cell adhesion, migration, and ultimately metastasis of cancers, and these proteins are worthy of future in-depth study for the elucidation of AGR2-mediated cellular functions.
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Agr2Beta-cateninBindinCell-cell adhesionDizpkGamma-cateniIsomerase agr2Photo-crosslinker

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Impacte bibliomètric. Anàlisi de la contribució i canal de difusió

El treball ha estat publicat a la revista BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY a causa de la seva progressió i el bon impacte que ha aconseguit en els últims anys, segons l'agència WoS (JCR), s'ha convertit en una referència en el seu camp. A l'any de publicació del treball, 2025, es trobava a la posició 12/57, aconseguint així situar-se com a revista Q1 (Primer Cuartil), en la categoria Chemistry, Organic.

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Aquest treball s'ha realitzat amb col·laboració internacional, concretament amb investigadors de: China.

Hi ha un lideratge significatiu, ja que alguns dels autors pertanyents a la institució apareixen com a primer o últim signant, es pot apreciar en el detall: Primer Autor (Ullah, Shafi) .

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We acknowledge financial support from the Natural Science Foundation of China grant No. 82273797 (HZ) , Startup funding from Hainan University (HZ) , and China Scholarship Council (SU) . The authors acknowledge Professor Peng Chen of Peking University for his generous gift of plasmid pSupAR-Mb-DiZPK-RS and DiZPK, and technical guidelines.
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