A structurally minimized yet fully active insulin based on cone-snail venom insulin principles
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Xiong, X; Menting, JG; Disotuar, MM; Smith, NA; Delaine, CA; Ghabash, G; Agrawal, R; Wang, X; He, X; Fisher, SJ; ...Date
2020-06-01Source Title
Nature Structural and Molecular BiologyPublisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUPUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Lawrence, MichaelAffiliation
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Xiong, X., Menting, J. G., Disotuar, M. M., Smith, N. A., Delaine, C. A., Ghabash, G., Agrawal, R., Wang, X., He, X., Fisher, S. J., MacRaild, C. A., Norton, R. S., Gajewiak, J., Forbes, B. E., Smith, B. J., Safavi-Hemami, H., Olivera, B., Lawrence, M. C. & Chou, D. H. -C. (2020). A structurally minimized yet fully active insulin based on cone-snail venom insulin principles. NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, 27 (7), pp.615-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-020-0430-8.Access Status
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Human insulin and its current therapeutic analogs all show propensity, albeit varyingly, to self-associate into dimers and hexamers, which delays their onset of action and makes blood glucose management difficult for people with diabetes. Recently, we described a monomeric, insulin-like peptide in cone-snail venom with moderate human insulin-like bioactivity. Here, with insights from structural biology studies, we report the development of mini-Ins-a human des-octapeptide insulin analog-as a structurally minimal, full-potency insulin. Mini-Ins is monomeric and, despite the lack of the canonical B-chain C-terminal octapeptide, has similar receptor binding affinity to human insulin. Four mutations compensate for the lack of contacts normally made by the octapeptide. Mini-Ins also has similar in vitro insulin signaling and in vivo bioactivities to human insulin. The full bioactivity of mini-Ins demonstrates the dispensability of the PheB24-PheB25-TyrB26 aromatic triplet and opens a new direction for therapeutic insulin development.
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