ReviewThe Journal of biological chemistry
From structure to the dynamic regulation of a molecular switch: A journey over 3 decades.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 100 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Decoding the allosteric grammar of protein kinases: A dual-stream framework integrating protein language models and energy landscape frustration analysis.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026Article
- Selective knockout of PKA regulatory subunits reveal opposite catalytic and metabolic consequences with implications for Alzheimer's disease.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Predicting and Decoding Allosteric Binding Sites Using Protein Language Models and Structure-Based Machine Learning: An Energy Landscape-Guided Explainable AI Framework.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2026Article
- A PKA-selective inhibitor captures an open but more ordered conformation of the PKA catalytic subunit.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Structural mechanism for noncanonical GPCR signaling in the Hedgehog pathway.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2026Article
- KinConfBench: A Curated Benchmark for Cofolding Models on Kinase Conformational States.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Cyclin-E/A/CDK1/2 Kinetic Landscapes Drive Cell Cycle Phase-Specific Progression and Guide Cyclin-E Degradation Strategy.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026Article
- Conformational dynamics in insulin receptor kinase reveal a type III allosteric pocket.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026Article
- Recurrent Acrodysostosis-Related PKA RIα Mutant Reveals a Novel Mechanism of Aberrant PKA Deactivation.Journal of molecular biology · 2025Article
- Crustacean Protein Kinases A and C: Bioinformatic Characterization in Decapods and Other Non-Model Organisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Distinct Allosteric Networks in CDK4 and CDK6 in the Cell Cycle and in Drug Resistance.Journal of molecular biology · 2025Article
- A Critical Look at the Crystal Structures of cAMP-Dependent Protein Kinases.Kinases and phosphatases · 2025Article
- Local and distal changes in dynamics are caused by an L205R Cushing's syndrome mutant in PRKACA.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- DNA Damage and Replication Stress Checkpoints.Annual review of biochemistry · 2025Review
- The Medicago truncatula LYR4 intracellular domain serves as a scaffold in immunity signaling independent of its phosphorylation activity.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Architecture and activation of single-pass transmembrane receptor guanylyl cyclase.Nature structural & molecular biology · 2025Article
- Phospho-relay feedback loops control egress vs. intracellular development in Toxoplasma gondii.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Probing Functional Allosteric States and Conformational Ensembles of the Allosteric Protein Kinase States and Mutants: Atomistic Modeling and Comparative Analysis of AlphaFold2, OmegaFold, and AlphaFlow Approaches and Adaptations.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2024Article
- The structures of protein kinase A in complex with CFTR: Mechanisms of phosphorylation and noncatalytic activation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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Abstract
It is difficult to imagine where the signaling community would be today without the Protein Data Bank. This visionary resource, established in the 1970s, has been an essential partner for sharing information between academics and industry for over 3 decades. We describe here the history of our journey with the protein kinases using cAMP-dependent protein kinase as a prototype. We summarize what we have learned since the first structure, published in 1991, why our journey is still ongoing, and why it has been essential to share our structural information. For regulation of kinase activity, we focus on the cAMP-binding protein kinase regulatory subunits. By exploring full-length macromolecular complexes, we discovered not only allostery but also an essential motif originally attributed to crystal packing. Massive genomic data on disease mutations allows us to now revisit crystal packing as a treasure chest of possible protein:protein interfaces where the biological significance and disease relevance can be validated. It provides a new window into exploring dynamic intrinsically disordered regions that previously were deleted, ignored, or attributed to crystal packing. Merging of crystallography with cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, NMR, and millisecond molecular dynamics simulations is opening a new world for the signaling community where those structure coordinates, deposited in the Protein Data Bank, are just a starting point!
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