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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 276, Issue 8, Pages 5892-5899Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M005822200
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RSKB, a p90 ribosomal S6 protein kinase with two catalytic domains, is activated by p38- and extracellular signal-regulated kinase mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. The sequences between the two catalytic domains and of the C-terminal extension contain elements that control RSKB activity. The C-terminal extension of RSRB presents a putative bipartite (713)KRX(14)KRRKQKLRS(737) nuclear location signal. The distinct cytoplasmic and nuclear locations of various C-terminal truncation mutants supported the hypothesis that the nuclear location signal was essential to direct RSKB to the nuclear compartment;. The (725)APLA-KRRKQKLRS(737) sequence also was essential for the intermolecular association of RSKB with p38. The activation of RSKB through p38 could be dissociated from p38 docking, because RSRB truncated at Ser(681) strongly responded to p38 pathway activity. Interestingly, Delta (725-772)-RSKB was nearly nonresponsive to p38. Sequence alignment with the autoinhibitory C-terminal extension of Ca+2/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase I predicted a conserved regulatory (708)AFN(710) motif. Alanine mutation of the key Phe(709) residue resulted in strongly elevated basal level RSKB activity. A regulatory role also was assigned to Thr(687), which is located in a mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphorylation consensus site. These findings support that the RSKB C-terminal extension contains elements that control activation threshold, subcellular location, and p38 docking.
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