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ArticleScience signaling2010

Loops govern SH2 domain specificity by controlling access to binding pockets.

Tomonori Kaneko, Haiming Huang, Bing Zhao, Lei Li, Huadong Liu, Courtney K Voss, Chenggang Wu, Martin R Schiller, Shawn Shun-Cheng Li

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Article in Science signaling, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 152 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tomonori KanekoDepartment of Biochemistry and the Siebens-Drake Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C1.
Haiming Huang
Bing Zhao
Lei Li
Huadong Liu
Courtney K Voss
Chenggang Wu
Martin R Schiller
Shawn Shun-Cheng Li
Western University · CA

Funding

Building motif lexiconsR01GM079689 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS · PI SCHILLER, MARTIN R · 2007 to 2010
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM 079689NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079689
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellular functions require specific protein-protein interactions that are often mediated by modular domains that use binding pockets to engage particular sequence motifs in their partners. Yet, how different members of a domain family select for distinct sequence motifs is not fully understood. The human genome encodes 120 Src homology 2 (SH2) domains (in 110 proteins), which mediate protein-protein interactions by binding to proteins with diverse phosphotyrosine (pTyr)-containing sequences. The structure of the SH2 domain of BRDG1 bound to a peptide revealed a binding pocket that was blocked by a loop residue in most other SH2 domains. Analysis of 63 SH2 domain structures suggested that the SH2 domains contain three binding pockets, which exhibit selectivity for the three positions after the pTyr in a peptide, and that SH2 domain loops defined the accessibility and shape of these pockets. Despite sequence variability in the loops, we identified conserved structural features in the loops of SH2 domains responsible for controlling access to these surface pockets. We engineered new loops in an SH2 domain that altered specificity as predicted. Thus, selective blockage of binding subsites or pockets by surface loops provides a molecular basis by which the diverse modes of ligand recognition by the SH2 domain may have evolved and provides a framework for engineering SH2 domains and designing SH2-specific inhibitors.

Indexed as

src Homology DomainsAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAmino Acid SequenceBinding SitesGenome, HumanHumansLigandsModels, MolecularAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingLigandsSTAP1 protein, human

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PMID20442417
PMCPMC6590088
OpenAlexW2023799737

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