Structural and mechanistic insights into VEGF receptor 3 ligand binding and activation. Leppänen, V., Tvorogov, D., Kisko, K., Prota, A. E., Jeltsch, M., Anisimov, A., Markovic-Mueller, S., Stuttfeld, E., Goldie, K. N., Ballmer-Hofer, K., & Alitalo, K. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(32):12960–12965, August, 2013. ![Structural and mechanistic insights into VEGF receptor 3 ligand binding and activation [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) and their receptors (VEGFRs) are key drivers of blood and lymph vessel formation in development, but also in several pathological processes. VEGF-C signaling through VEGFR-3 promotes lymphangiogenesis, which is a clinically relevant target for treating lymphatic insufficiency and for blocking tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. The extracellular domain of VEGFRs consists of seven Ig homology domains; domains 1–3 (D1-3) are responsible for ligand binding, and the membrane-proximal domains 4–7 (D4-7) are involved in structural rearrangements essential for receptor dimerization and activation. Here we analyzed the crystal structures of VEGF-C in complex with VEGFR-3 domains D1-2 and of the VEGFR-3 D4-5 homodimer. The structures revealed a conserved ligand-binding interface in D2 and a unique mechanism for VEGFR dimerization and activation, with homotypic interactions in D5. Mutation of the conserved residues mediating the D5 interaction (Thr446 and Lys516) and the D7 interaction (Arg737) compromised VEGF-C induced VEGFR-3 activation. A thermodynamic analysis of VEGFR-3 deletion mutants showed that D3, D4-5, and D6-7 all contribute to ligand binding. A structural model of the VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 D1-7 complex derived from small-angle X-ray scattering data is consistent with the homotypic interactions in D5 and D7. Taken together, our data show that ligand-dependent homotypic interactions in D5 and D7 are essential for VEGFR activation, opening promising possibilities for the design of VEGFR-specific drugs.
@article{leppanen_structural_2013,
title = {Structural and mechanistic insights into {VEGF} receptor 3 ligand binding and activation},
volume = {110},
issn = {0027-8424, 1091-6490},
url = {http://www.pnas.org/content/110/32/12960},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1301415110},
abstract = {Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) and their receptors (VEGFRs) are key drivers of blood and lymph vessel formation in development, but also in several pathological processes. VEGF-C signaling through VEGFR-3 promotes lymphangiogenesis, which is a clinically relevant target for treating lymphatic insufficiency and for blocking tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. The extracellular domain of VEGFRs consists of seven Ig homology domains; domains 1–3 (D1-3) are responsible for ligand binding, and the membrane-proximal domains 4–7 (D4-7) are involved in structural rearrangements essential for receptor dimerization and activation. Here we analyzed the crystal structures of VEGF-C in complex with VEGFR-3 domains D1-2 and of the VEGFR-3 D4-5 homodimer. The structures revealed a conserved ligand-binding interface in D2 and a unique mechanism for VEGFR dimerization and activation, with homotypic interactions in D5. Mutation of the conserved residues mediating the D5 interaction (Thr446 and Lys516) and the D7 interaction (Arg737) compromised VEGF-C induced VEGFR-3 activation. A thermodynamic analysis of VEGFR-3 deletion mutants showed that D3, D4-5, and D6-7 all contribute to ligand binding. A structural model of the VEGF-C/VEGFR-3 D1-7 complex derived from small-angle X-ray scattering data is consistent with the homotypic interactions in D5 and D7. Taken together, our data show that ligand-dependent homotypic interactions in D5 and D7 are essential for VEGFR activation, opening promising possibilities for the design of VEGFR-specific drugs.},
language = {en},
number = {32},
urldate = {2013-12-18},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
author = {Leppänen, Veli-Matti and Tvorogov, Denis and Kisko, Kaisa and Prota, Andrea E. and Jeltsch, Michael and Anisimov, Andrey and Markovic-Mueller, Sandra and Stuttfeld, Edward and Goldie, Kenneth N. and Ballmer-Hofer, Kurt and Alitalo, Kari},
month = aug,
year = {2013},
pmid = {23878260},
keywords = {Receptor tyrosine kinase, signal transduction},
pages = {12960--12965},
}
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