Structural Basis for the Improved RNA Clamping of Amidino-Rocaglates to eIF4A1
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Abstract
High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Eukaryotic initiation factor 4A-1 (eIF4A1) is an ATP-dependent RNA helicase that unwinds 5′-UTR mRNA secondary structures to facilitate cap-dependent translation initiation. Rocaglates, a class of natural products typified by rocaglamide A (RocA), possess antineoplastic and anti-infectious activity mediated by their interaction with eIF4A1. Rocaglates inhibit cap-dependent translation initiation by “clamping” eIF4A1 onto polypurine RNA, which impedes ribosome scanning. A novel class of rocaglate derivatives, amidino-rocaglates (ADRs) which feature an amidine ring fused to the rocaglate core, is particularly effective at promoting eIF4A1–RNA-clamping compared to other rocaglate congeners. Herein, we present the X-ray crystal structure of an ADR in complex with eIF4A1, the nonhydrolyzable ATP ground-state mimic adenylyl-imidodiphosphate (AMPPNP), and poly r(AG) 5 RNA refined to 1.69 Å resolution. The binding pose and interactions of the ADR with eIF4A1 do not differ substantially from those of RocA, prompting an investigation of the basis for enhanced target engagement. Computational modeling suggests that the rigidified ADR scaffold is inherently preorganized in an eIF4A1–RNA binding-competent conformation, thereby avoiding entropic penalties associated with RocA binding. This study illustrates how conformational rigidification of the rocaglate scaffold can be leveraged to improve potency for the development of rocaglates as potential anticancer and anti-infectious agents.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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