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PLOS ONE
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091934
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- American Cancer Society [RSG-08-067-01-LIB]
- National Institute of Health [R01GM100910]
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-AC02-98CH10886]
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The mitogen-activation protein kinase ERK2 is tightly regulated by multiple phosphatases, including those of the kinase interaction motif (KIM) PTP family (STEP, PTPSL and HePTP). Here, we use small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) to show that the ERK2: STEP complex is compact and that residues outside the canonical KIM motif of STEP contribute to ERK2 binding. Furthermore, we analyzed the interaction of PTPSL with ERK2 showing that residues outside of the canonical KIM motif also contribute to ERK2 binding. The integration of this work with previous studies provides a quantitative and structural map of how the members of a single family of regulators, the KIM-PTPs, differentially interact with their corresponding MAPKs, ERK2 and p38 alpha.
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