Unique and Common Agonists Act the Insect Juvenile Hormone Rece and the Human AHR

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F25%3A00603119" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/25:00603119 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022283624005138?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022283624005138?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168883" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jmb.2024.168883</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unique and Common Agonists Act the Insect Juvenile Hormone Rece and the Human AHR

Original language description

Transcription factors of the bHLH-PAS family play vital roles in animal development, physiology, and disease. Two members of the family require binding of low-molecular weight ligands for their activity: the vertebrate aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) and the insect juvenile hormone receptor (JHR). In the fly Drosophila melanogaster, the paralogous proteins GCE and MET constitute the ligand-binding component of JHR complexes. Whilst GCE/MET and AHR are phylogenetically heterologous, their mode of action is similar. JHR is targeted by several synthetic agonists that serve as insecticides disrupting the insect endocrine system. AHR is an important regulator of human endocrine homeostasis, and it responds to environmental pollutants and endocrine disruptors. Whether AHR signaling is affected by compounds that can activate JHR has not been reported. To address this question, we screened a chemical library of 50,000 compounds to identify 93 novel JHR agonists in a reporter system based on Drosophila cells. Of these compounds, 26% modulated AHR signaling in an analogous reporter assay in a human cell line, indicating a significant overlap in the agonist repertoires of the two receptors. To explore the structural features of agonist-dependent activation of JHR and AHR, we compared the ligand-binding cavities and their interactions with selective and common ligands of AHR and GCE. Molecular dynamics modeling revealed ligand-specific as well as conserved side chains within the respective cavities. Significance of predicted interactions was supported through site-directed mutagenesis. The results have indicated that (c) 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10605 - Developmental biology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GX20-05151X" target="_blank" >GX20-05151X: Uncovering of missing genetic components and new chemical regulators of juvenile hormone signaling</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Molecular Biology

ISSN

0022-2836

e-ISSN

1089-8638

Volume of the periodical

437

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

168883

UT code for WoS article

001375189500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85211020814