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@ARTICLE{Creon:634789,
author = {Creon, Anne and Scheer, Theresa Emilie Sophie and Reinke,
Patrick and Rahmani Mashhour, Aida and Günther, Sebastian
and Niebling, Stephan and Schamoni-Kast, Kira and Uetrecht,
Charlotte and Meents, Alke and Chapman, Henry N. and
Sprenger, Janina and Lane, Thomas},
title = {{S}tatistical crystallography reveals an allosteric network
in {SARS}-{C}o{V}-2 {M} pro},
reportid = {PUBDB-2025-02613},
year = {2025},
abstract = {To interpret and transmit biological signals, proteins use
correlated motions. Experimental determination of these
dynamics with atomic resolution remains a key challenge.
Here, using thousands of crystals of the main protease
(Mpro) from SARS-CoV-2, we were able to infer a model of the
protein’s correlated motions. Mpro is regulated by
concentration, becoming enzymatically active after forming a
homodimer. To understand the correlated motions that enable
dimerization to activate catalysis, we employed our model,
predicting which regions of the dimerization domain are
structurally linked to the active site. Mutations at these
positions, expected to disrupt catalysis, resulted in a
dramatic reduction in activity in one case, a mild effect in
the second, and none in the third. Additional
crystallography and biophysical experiments provide a
mechanistic explanation for these results. Our work suggests
that a statistical crystallography can determine protein
correlated motions and rationalize their biological
function.},
cin = {CFEL-I / FS-CFEL-1-BMX / DOOR ; HAS-User},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)CFEL-I-20161114 /
I:(DE-H253)FS-CFEL-1-BMX-20210408 /
I:(DE-H253)HAS-User-20120731},
pnm = {633 - Life Sciences – Building Blocks of Life: Structure
and Function (POF4-633) / 6G3 - PETRA III (DESY) (POF4-6G3)
/ AIM, DFG project G:(GEPRIS)390715994 - EXC 2056: CUI:
Advanced Imaging of Matter (390715994) / 05K19GU4 - SFX2:
Hochdurchsatz Serielle-Femtosekunden Kristallographie @ EU
XFEL. (BMBF-05K19GU4) / InternLabs-0011 - HIR3X - Helmholtz
International Laboratory on Reliability, Repetition, Results
at the most advanced X-ray Sources $(2020_InternLabs-0011)$
/ ARIADNE - Redefining mass spectrometry – a breakthrough
platform for real-time noninvasive breath analysis with
single ion detection of intact viruses and bacteria and
post-analysis molecular characterization (964553) / SPOCkS
MS - Sampling Protein cOmplex Conformational Space with
native top down Mass Spectrometry (759661)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-633 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-6G3 /
G:(GEPRIS)390715994 / G:(DE-Ds200)BMBF-05K19GU4 /
$G:(DE-HGF)2020_InternLabs-0011$ / G:(EU-Grant)964553 /
G:(EU-Grant)759661},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)P-P11-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)25},
doi = {10.1101/2025.01.28.635305},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/634789},
}