Structural highlights
Function
[1433S_HUMAN] Adapter protein implicated in the regulation of a large spectrum of both general and specialized signaling pathways. Binds to a large number of partners, usually by recognition of a phosphoserine or phosphothreonine motif. Binding generally results in the modulation of the activity of the binding partner. When bound to KRT17, regulates protein synthesis and epithelial cell growth by stimulating Akt/mTOR pathway (By similarity). p53-regulated inhibitor of G2/M progression.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
Supramolecular chemistry has recently emerged as a promising way to modulate protein functions, but devising molecules that will interact with a protein in the desired manner is difficult as many competing interactions exist in a biological environment (with solvents, salts or different sites for the target biomolecule). We now show that lysine-specific molecular tweezers bind to a 14-3-3 adapter protein and modulate its interaction with partner proteins. The tweezers inhibit binding between the 14-3-3 protein and two partner proteins-a phosphorylated (C-Raf) protein and an unphosphorylated one (ExoS)-in a concentration-dependent manner. Protein crystallography shows that this effect arises from the binding of the tweezers to a single surface-exposed lysine (Lys214) of the 14-3-3 protein in the proximity of its central channel, which normally binds the partner proteins. A combination of structural analysis and computer simulations provides rules for the tweezers' binding preferences, thus allowing us to predict their influence on this type of protein-protein interactions.
Molecular tweezers modulate 14-3-3 protein-protein interactions.,Bier D, Rose R, Bravo-Rodriguez K, Bartel M, Ramirez-Anguita JM, Dutt S, Wilch C, Klarner FG, Sanchez-Garcia E, Schrader T, Ottmann C Nat Chem. 2013 Mar;5(3):234-9. doi: 10.1038/nchem.1570. Epub 2013 Feb 17. PMID:23422566[1]
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References
- ↑ Bier D, Rose R, Bravo-Rodriguez K, Bartel M, Ramirez-Anguita JM, Dutt S, Wilch C, Klarner FG, Sanchez-Garcia E, Schrader T, Ottmann C. Molecular tweezers modulate 14-3-3 protein-protein interactions. Nat Chem. 2013 Mar;5(3):234-9. doi: 10.1038/nchem.1570. Epub 2013 Feb 17. PMID:23422566 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1570
