Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24954618›Full record

ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2014

The LxVP and PxIxIT NFAT motifs bind jointly to overlapping epitopes on calcineurin's catalytic domain distant to the regulatory domain.

Maayan Gal, Shuai Li, Rafael E Luna, Koh Takeuchi, Gerhard Wagner

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Calcineurin inhibition may prevent Alzheimer disease in people with Down syndrome.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  8. Calcineurin signaling in the heart: The importance of time and place.Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maayan GalDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Shuai LiDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Rafael E LunaDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Koh TakeuchiDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Gerhard WagnerDepartment of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: gerhard_wagner@hms.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · US

Funding

T CELL SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPTION COMPLEXESP01GM047467 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WAGNER, GERHARD · 1992 to 2017
$28.6M
OverallP41EB002026 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GRIFFIN, ROBERT GUY · 2003 to 2018
$17.9M
STRUCTURE BASIS OF IMMUNE-CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR FUNCTIONR01AI037581 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WAGNER, GERHARD · 1996 to 2021
$6.7M
800 MHz Triple Resonance Observe (TXO) Detection CryoProbeS10RR026417 · NCRR · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WAGNER, GERHARD · 2010 to 2010
$359k
NCRR NIH HHS S10 RR026417NIAID NIH HHS AI37581NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI037581NIBIB NIH HHS EB002026NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB002026NIGMS NIH HHS GM047467NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM047467
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The serine/threonine phosphatase calcineurin (Cn) targets the nuclear factors of activated T cells (NFATs) that activate cytokine genes. Calcium influx activates Cn to dephosphorylate multiple serine residues within the ∼200 residue NFAT regulatory domain, which triggers joint nuclear translocation of NFAT and Cn. The dephosphorylation process relies on the interaction between Cn and the conserved motifs PxIxIT and LxVP, which are located N- and C-terminal to the phosphorylation sites in NFAT's regulatory domain. Here, we show that an NFATc1-derived 15-residue peptide segment containing the conserved LxVP motif binds to an epitope on Cn's catalytic domain (CnA), which overlaps with the previously established PxIxIT binding site on CnA and is distant to the regulatory domain (CnB). Both NFAT motifs partially compete for binding but do not fully displace each other on the CnA epitope, revealing that both segments bind simultaneously to the same epitope on the catalytic domain.

Indexed as

Amino Acid MotifsCatalytic DomainProtein Structure, TertiaryAmino Acid SequenceBinding SitesCalcineurinEpitopesHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMutation, MissenseNFATC Transcription FactorsPeptidesPhosphorylationProtein BindingCalcineurinEpitopesNFATC Transcription FactorsPeptides

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PMID24954618
PMCPMC4102887
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