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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2017

Intramolecular autoinhibition of checkpoint kinase 1 is mediated by conserved basic motifs of the C-terminal kinase-associated 1 domain.

Ryan P Emptage, Megan J Schoenberger, Kathryn M Ferguson, Ronen Marmorstein

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. A C-degron regulates Chk1 kinase by allowing stability of inactive Chk1 and by making it short- lived upon activation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Case report: A germlineFrontiers in oncology · 2024
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  7. Spatiotemporal regulation of MELK during mitosis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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4 authors.

Ryan P EmptageFrom the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, emptage@upenn.edu.
Megan J Schoenbergerthe Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, and.
Kathryn M Fergusonthe Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520.
Ronen MarmorsteinFrom the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, marmor@upenn.edu.

Funding

Targeting the MAP and PI3 Kinase Pathways in MelanomaP01CA114046 · NCI · WISTAR INSTITUTE · PI HERLYN, MEENHARD F, WEERARATNA, ASHANI T · 2008 to 2023
$37.1M
HEMATOPOIESIS TRAINING GRANTT32DK007780 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI TONG, WEI · 1999 to 2023
$6.7M
Investigating KA1 domain-mediated regulation of MARK/PAR1 kinasesF32GM115098 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI EMPTAGE, RYAN P. · 2015 to 2017
$109k
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA114046NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007780NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM115098
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Precise control of the cell cycle allows for timely repair of genetic material prior to replication. One factor intimately involved in this process is checkpoint kinase 1 (Chk1), a DNA damage repair inducing Ser/Thr protein kinase that contains an N-terminal kinase domain and a C-terminal regulatory region consisting of a ∼100-residue linker followed by a putative kinase-associated 1 (KA1) domain. We report the crystal structure of the human Chk1 KA1 domain, demonstrating striking structural homology with other sequentially diverse KA1 domains. Separately purified Chk1 kinase and KA1 domains are intimately associated in solution, which results in inhibition of Chk1 kinase activity. Using truncation mutants and site-directed mutagenesis, we define the inhibitory face of the KA1 domain as a series of basic residues residing on two conserved regions of the primary structure. These findings point to KA1-mediated intramolecular autoinhibition as a key regulatory mechanism of human Chk1, and provide new therapeutic possibilities with which to attack this validated oncology target with small molecules.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceCatalytic DomainCell CycleCheckpoint Kinase 1Crystallography, X-RayDNA RepairEnzyme ActivationHumansModels, MolecularProtein ConformationSequence AlignmentCheckpoint Kinase 1CHEK1 protein, humancell cyclecheckpoint controlcrystal structureDNA damage responseenzyme inactivationenzyme mechanismprotein domainserine/threonine protein kinasestructural biology

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PMID28972186
PMCPMC5704483

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