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CELL
Volume 163, Issue 1, Pages 187-201Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.08.057
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- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP)/ERC Grant (KINOMEDRIFT)
- Lundbeck Foundation Fellow
- Human Frontier Science Program
- Ludwig Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship
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Protein kinases control cellular responses to environmental cues by swift and accurate signal processing. Breakdowns in this high-fidelity capability are a driving force in cancer and other diseases. Thus, our limited understanding of which amino acids in the kinase domain encode substrate specificity, the so-called determinants of specificity (DoS), constitutes a major obstacle in cancer signaling. Here, we systematically discover several DoS and experimentally validate three of them, named the alpha C1, alpha C3, and APE-7 residues. We demonstrate that DoS form sparse networks of non-conserved residues spanning distant regions. Our results reveal a likely role for inter-residue allostery in specificity and an evolutionary decoupling of kinase activity and specificity, which appear loaded on independent groups of residues. Finally, we uncover similar properties driving SH2 domain specificity and demonstrate how the identification of DoS can be utilized to elucidate a greater understanding of the role of signaling networks in cancer (Creixell et al., 2015 [this issue of Cell]).
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