Title:Structural Basis for Drug Resistance Mechanisms Against EGFR
Volume: 17
Issue: 22
Author(s): Sukriti Goyal, Salma Jamal, Asheesh Shanker and Abhinav Grover*
Affiliation:
- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,India
Keywords:
EGFR, Drug resistance, Kinase, Erlotinib, Gefitinib, NSCLC.
Abstract: Mutations in the kinase domain encoding region of EGFR gene causes drug resistance to
EGFR kinase inhibitors such as erlotinib and gefitinib. This problem can be addressed by a new lead
compound effective against all mutants of EGFR. To predict positions of residues possessing the potential
to render EGFR drug resistant upon mutation, residual positions known to interact with Erlotinib and Gefitinib
were assessed using five parameters (conservation index, binding site RMSD, protein structure
stability and change in ATP and drug binding affinity). Structural screening protocol was followed to
identify novel lead compound. Four positions, Lys 745, Cys 797, Asp 800 and Thr 854, were most likely
observed to acquire drug resistance by altering drug binding affinity without destabilizing the protein and
ATP binding ability. A compound DHO was observed to possess better binding affinity for all EGFR
models in comparison to Erlotinib and Gefitinib, using docking protocol. This information would pave
the way for designing drugs effective against wild-type (WT) EGFR as well as against variant EGFRs
models. Thus, authors report a lead compound as a long-term potential with the ability to inhibit predicted
models of mutant, wild and known SNPs EGFR.
