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ArticleeLife2019

Decoding WW domain tandem-mediated target recognitions in tissue growth and cell polarity.

Zhijie Lin, Zhou Yang, Ruiling Xie, Zeyang Ji, Kunliang Guan, Mingjie Zhang

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Article in eLife, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Zhijie Lin *Division of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Zhou Yang *Division of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Ruiling XieDepartment of Pharmacology and Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6086-8683
Zeyang JiDivision of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Kunliang GuanDepartment of Pharmacology and Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.
Mingjie ZhangDivision of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9404-0190
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · HKPeking University · CNUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION AND GROWTH FACTOR FUNCTIONR01GM051586 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI BROWN, JOAN HELLER · 1994 to 2024
$7.9M
The mTOR and Hippo pathway in cell growth and cancerR35CA196878 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GUAN, KUN-LIANG · 2015 to 2019
$4.0M
Molecular Mechanism and Therapy for Ocular MelanomaR01CA217642 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI BROWN, JOAN HELLER · 2017 to 2022
$2.4M
Asia Foundation for Cancer Research AFCR17SC01NCI NIH HHS R01 CA217642NCI NIH HHS R35 CA196878NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM051586NIH HHS CA196878NIH HHS CA217642NIH HHS DEO15964NIH HHS GM51586Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee AOE-M09-12Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee C6004-17G
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

WW domain tandem-containing proteins such as KIBRA, YAP, and MAGI play critical roles in cell growth and polarity via binding to and positioning target proteins in specific subcellular regions. An immense disparity exists between promiscuity of WW domain-mediated target bindings and specific roles of WW domain proteins in cell growth regulation. Here, we discovered that WW domain tandems of KIBRA and MAGI, but not YAP, bind to specific target proteins with extremely high affinity and exquisite sequence specificity. Via systematic structural biology and biochemistry approaches, we decoded the target binding rules of WW domain tandems from cell growth regulatory proteins and uncovered a list of previously unknown WW tandem binding proteins including β-Dystroglycan, JCAD, and PTPN21. The WW tandem-mediated target recognition mechanisms elucidated here can guide functional studies of WW domain proteins in cell growth and polarity as well as in other cellular processes including neuronal synaptic signaling.

Indexed as

Cell PolarityCell ProliferationProtein TransportWW DomainsAnimalsBrainMiceProtein BindingProtein Interaction MapsProteinsProteinsE. coliHippo signalingKIBRALATSMAGImolecular biophysicsstructural biologyWW domain tandemYAP

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PMID31486770
PMCPMC6744271
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