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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 42, Issue 49, Pages 14416-14426Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi035089a
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- NCI NIH HHS [P30 CA68485] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [P50 ES00267] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM62112] Funding Source: Medline
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NDR, a nuclear serine/threonine kinase, belongs to the subfamily of Dbf2 kinases that is critical to the morphology and proliferation of cells. The activity of NDR kinase is modulated in a Ca2+/S100B-dependent manner by phosphorylation of Ser281 in the catalytic domain and Thr444 in the C-terminal regulatory domain. S100B, which is a member of the S100 subfamily of EF-hand proteins, binds to a basic/hydrophobic sequence at the junction of the N-terminal regulatory and catalytic domains (NDR62-87). Unlike calmodulin-dependent kinases, regulation of NDR by S100B is not associated with direct autoinhibition of the active site, but rather involves a conformational change in the catalytic domain triggered by Ca2+/S100B binding to the junction region. To gain further insight into the mechanism of activation of the kinase, studies have been carried out on Ca2+/S100B in complex with the intact N-terminal regulatory domain, NDR1-87. Multidimensional heteronuclear NMR analysis showed that the binding mode and stoichiometry of a peptide fragment of NDR (NDR62-87) is the same as for the intact N-terminal regulatory domain. The solution structure of Ca2+/S100B and NDR62-87 has been determined. One target molecule is found to associate with each subunit of the S100B dimer. The peptide adopts three turns of helix in the bound state, and the complex is stabilized by both hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions. These structural studies, in combination with available biochemical data, have been used to develop a model for calcium-induced activation of NDR kinase by S100B.
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