The IPB has once again been recognized for its exemplary actions in terms of equal opportunity-oriented personnel and organizational policies and has received the TOTAL E-QUALITY certification for the…
The Plant Science Student Conference (PSSC) has been organised by students from the two Leibniz institutes, IPK and IPB, every year for the last 20 years. In this interview, Christina Wäsch (IPK) and…
Abhishek, S.; Deeksha, W.; Nethravathi, K. R.; Davari, M. D.; Rajakumara, E.;Allosteric crosstalk in modular proteins: Function fine-tuning and drug designComp Struct Biotechnol J215003-5015(2023)DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.10.013
Modular proteins are regulatory proteins that carry out more than one function. These proteins upregulate or downregulate a biochemical cascade to establish homeostasis in cells. To switch the function or alter the efficiency (based on cellular needs), these proteins require different facilitators that bind to a site different from the catalytic (active/orthosteric) site, aka ‘allosteric site’, and fine-tune their function. These facilitators (or effectors) are allosteric modulators. In this Review, we have discussed the allostery, characterized them based on their mechanisms, and discussed how allostery plays an important role in the activity modulation and function finetuning of proteins. Recently there is an emergence in the discovery of allosteric drugs. We have also emphasized the role, significance, and future of allostery in therapeutic applications.