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SUBMITTER: Xin M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4172359 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xin Meiguo M Li Rui R Xie Maohua M Park Dongkyoo D Owonikoko Taofeek K TK Sica Gabriel L GL Corsino Patrick E PE Zhou Jia J Ding Chunyong C White Mark A MA Magis Andrew T AT Ramalingam Suresh S SS Curran Walter J WJ Khuri Fadlo R FR Deng Xingming X
Nature communications 20140917
Bax, a central death regulator, is required at the decisional stage of apoptosis. We recently identified serine 184 (S184) of Bax as a critical functional switch controlling its proapoptotic activity. Here we used the structural pocket around S184 as a docking site to screen the NCI library of small molecules using the UCSF-DOCK programme suite. Three compounds, small-molecule Bax agonists SMBA1, SMBA2 and SMBA3, induce conformational changes in Bax by blocking S184 phosphorylation, facilitating ...[more]