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BIOMOLECULES
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom13111564
Keywords
phosphorylation; post-translational modification; local change in protein structure; three-dimensional protein structure
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Protein modifications can affect protein structure and function. Phosphorylation, a common modification, can cause local structural changes in proteins. This study compared protein structural changes in different amino acid residues near the modification site and found that phosphorylation can lead to pronounced local structural changes.
Modification of the protein after synthesis (PTM) often affects protein function as supported by numerous studies. However, there is no consensus about the degree of structural protein changes after modification. For phosphorylation of serine, threonine, and tyrosine, which is a common PTM in the biology of living organisms, we consider topical issues related to changes in the geometric parameters of a protein (Rg, RMSD, C alpha displacement, SASA). The effect of phosphorylation on protein geometry was studied both for the whole protein and at the local level (i.e., in different neighborhoods of the modification site). Heterogeneity in the degree of protein structural changes after phosphorylation was revealed, which allowed for us to isolate a group of proteins having pronounced local structural changes in the neighborhoods of up to 15 amino acid residues from the modification site. This is a comparative study of protein structural changes in neighborhoods of 3-15 amino acid residues from the modified site. Amino acid phosphorylation in proteins with pronounced local changes caused switching from the inactive functional state to the active one.
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