Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2003
Abstract
Protein tyrosine kinases (PTK) are key enzymes of mammalian signal transduction. For the fidelity of signal transduction, each PTK phosphorylates only one or a few proteins on specific Tyr residues. Substrate specificity is thought to be mediated by PTK–substrate docking interactions and recognition of the phosphorylation site sequence by the kinase active site. However, a substrate-docking site has not been determined on any PTK. C-terminal Src kinase (Csk) is a PTK that specifically phosphorylates Src family kinases on a C-terminal Tyr. In this study, by sequence alignment and site-specific mutagenesis, we located a substrate-docking site on Csk. Mutations in the docking site disabled Csk to phosphorylate, regulate, and complex with Src but only moderately affected its general kinase activity. A peptide mimicking the docking site potently inhibited (IC50 = 21 μM) Csk phosphorylation of Src but only moderately inhibited (IC50 = 422 μM) its general kinase activity. Determination of the substrate-docking site provides the structural basis of substrate specificity in Csk and a model for understanding substrate specificity in other PTKs.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Sungsoo, Xiaofeng Lin, Nguyen Hai Nam, Keykavous Parang, and Gongqin Sun. "Determination of the substrate-docking site of protein tyrosine kinase C-terminal Src kinase." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100, no. 25 (2003): 14707-14712.
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2534493100
Copyright
National Academy of Sciences
Comments
This article was originally published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 100, issue 25, in 2003. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2534493100