METHODS FOR SELECTIVELY INHIBITING MOLECULAR CHAPERONE CLIENTS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR USE THEREOF

摘要

The present disclosure relates to a method of identifying an agent-of-interest that alters binding or activity of a client protein to a chaperone, co-chaperone, or chaperone-co-chaperone complex, the method including: determining a three-dimensional (3D) structure of a client protein-of-interest; evaluating the 3D structure of the client protein-of-interest to identify an unstable substructure of the 3D structure of the client protein-of-interest; and determining an amino acid sequence of the unstable substructure of the 3D structure of the client protein-of-interest to identify an agent-of-interest that alters binding or activity of a client protein to a chaperone, co-chaperone, or chaperone-co-chaperone complex.