The autosomal dominant form of retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) is a blindness-causing conformational disease largely linked to mutations of rhodopsin. Molecular simulations coupled to the graph-based protein structure network (PSN) analysis and in vitro experiments were conducted to determine the effects of 33 adRP rhodopsin mutations on the structure and routing of the opsin protein. The integration of atomic and subcellular levels of analysis was accomplished by the linear correlation between indices of mutational impairment in structure network and in routing. The graph-based index of structural perturbation served also to divide the mutants in four clusters, consistent with their differences in subcellular localization and responses to 9-cis retinal. The stability core of opsin inferred from PSN analysis was targeted by virtual screening of over 300,000 anionic compounds leading to the discovery of a reversible orthosteric inhibitor of retinal binding more effective than retinal in improving routing of three adRP mutants.

A Small Chaperone Improves Folding and Routing of Rhodopsin Mutants Linked to Inherited Blindness / Behnen, Petra; Felline, Angelo; Comitato, Antonella; Di Salvo, Maria Teresa; Raimondi, Francesco; Gulati, Sahil; Kahremany, Shirin; Palczewski, Krzysztof; Marigo, Valeria; Fanelli, Francesca. - In: ISCIENCE. - ISSN 2589-0042. - 4:(2018), pp. 1-19. [10.1016/j.isci.2018.05.001]

A Small Chaperone Improves Folding and Routing of Rhodopsin Mutants Linked to Inherited Blindness

Felline, Angelo;Comitato, Antonella;Marigo, Valeria
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Fanelli, Francesca
2018

Abstract

The autosomal dominant form of retinitis pigmentosa (adRP) is a blindness-causing conformational disease largely linked to mutations of rhodopsin. Molecular simulations coupled to the graph-based protein structure network (PSN) analysis and in vitro experiments were conducted to determine the effects of 33 adRP rhodopsin mutations on the structure and routing of the opsin protein. The integration of atomic and subcellular levels of analysis was accomplished by the linear correlation between indices of mutational impairment in structure network and in routing. The graph-based index of structural perturbation served also to divide the mutants in four clusters, consistent with their differences in subcellular localization and responses to 9-cis retinal. The stability core of opsin inferred from PSN analysis was targeted by virtual screening of over 300,000 anionic compounds leading to the discovery of a reversible orthosteric inhibitor of retinal binding more effective than retinal in improving routing of three adRP mutants.
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A Small Chaperone Improves Folding and Routing of Rhodopsin Mutants Linked to Inherited Blindness / Behnen, Petra; Felline, Angelo; Comitato, Antonella; Di Salvo, Maria Teresa; Raimondi, Francesco; Gulati, Sahil; Kahremany, Shirin; Palczewski, Krzysztof; Marigo, Valeria; Fanelli, Francesca. - In: ISCIENCE. - ISSN 2589-0042. - 4:(2018), pp. 1-19. [10.1016/j.isci.2018.05.001]
Behnen, Petra; Felline, Angelo; Comitato, Antonella; Di Salvo, Maria Teresa; Raimondi, Francesco; Gulati, Sahil; Kahremany, Shirin; Palczewski, Krzysztof; Marigo, Valeria; Fanelli, Francesca
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