Structural basis for the recognition of regulatory subunits by the catalytic subunit of protein phosphatase 1

Autor: David Barford, Patricia T.W. Cohen, Marie Pierre Egloff, Philip Cohen, Greg Moorhead, Deborah F. Johnson
Rok vydání: 1997
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Zdroj: The EMBO journal. 16(8)
ISSN: 0261-4189
Popis: The diverse forms of protein phosphatase 1 in vivo result from the association of its catalytic subunit (PP1c) with different regulatory subunits, one of which is the G‐subunit (G M ) that targets PP1c to glycogen particles in muscle. Here we report the structure, at 3.0 A resolution, of PP1c in complex with a 13 residue peptide (G M[63–75] ) of G M . The residues in G M[63–75] that interact with PP1c are those in the Arg/Lys–Val/Ile–Xaa–Phe motif that is present in almost every other identified mammalian PP1‐binding subunit. Disrupting this motif in the G M[63–75] peptide and the M 110[1–38] peptide (which mimics the myofibrillar targeting M 110 subunit in stimulating the dephosphorylation of myosin) prevents these peptides from interacting with PP1. A short peptide from the PP1‐binding protein p53BP2 that contains the RVXF motif also interacts with PP1c. These findings identify a recognition site on PP1c, invariant from yeast to humans, for a critical structural motif on regulatory subunits. This explains why the binding of PP1 to its regulatory subunits is mutually exclusive, and suggests a novel approach for identifying the functions of PP1‐binding proteins whose roles are unknown.
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