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FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00270
Keywords
protein phosphorylation; proteinprotein interactions; allosteric regulation; protein disorder; multisite phosphorylation
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [13J03101] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Phosphorylation offers a dynamic way to regulate protein activity and subcellular localization, which is achieved through its reversibility and fast kinetics. Adding or removing a dianionic phosphate group somewhere on a protein often changes the proteins structural properties, its stability and dynamics. Moreover, the majority of signaling pathways involve an extensive set of proteinprotein interactions, and phosphorylation can be used to regulate and modulate proteinprotein binding. Losses of phosphorylation sites, as a result of disease mutations, might disrupt protein binding and deregulate signal transduction. In this paper we focus on the effects of phosphorylation on protein stability, dynamics, and binding. We describe several physico-chemical mechanisms of protein regulation through phosphorylation and pay particular attention to phosphorylation in protein complexes and phosphorylation in the context of disorderorder and orderdisorder transitions. Finally we assess the role of multiple phosphorylation sites in a protein molecule, their possible cooperativity and function.
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