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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 62, Issue 11, Pages 1594-1607Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00096
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The ERM family proteins and merlin participate in scaffolding and signaling events at the cell cortex. By screening the FERM domains of these proteins against a phage library, they discovered novel interaction motifs and binding sites. They defined distinct binding sites and provided a molecular understanding of how peptides with distinct motifs bind to different sites on the moesin FERM phosphotyrosine binding-like subdomain.
The ERM (ezrin, radixin,and moesin) family of proteins and therelated protein merlin participate in scaffolding and signaling eventsat the cell cortex. The proteins share an N-terminal FERM [band four-point-one(4.1) ERM] domain composed of three subdomains (F1, F2, and F3) withbinding sites for short linear peptide motifs. By screening the FERMdomains of the ERMs and merlin against a phage library that displayspeptides representing the intrinsically disordered regions of thehuman proteome, we identified a large number of novel ligands. Wedetermined the affinities for the ERM and merlin FERM domains interactingwith 18 peptides and validated interactions with full-length proteinsthrough pull-down experiments. The majority of the peptides containedan apparent Yx-[FILV] motif; others show alternative motifs. We defineddistinct binding sites for two types of similar but distinct bindingmotifs (YxV and FYDF) using a combination of Rosetta FlexPepDock computationalpeptide docking protocols and mutational analysis. We provide a detailedmolecular understanding of how the two types of peptides with distinctmotifs bind to different sites on the moesin FERM phosphotyrosinebinding-like subdomain and uncover interdependencies between the differenttypes of ligands. The study expands the motif-based interactomes ofthe ERMs and merlin and suggests that the FERM domain acts as a switchableinteraction hub.
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