Journal
BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 159, Issue 1, Pages 41-47Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2011.05.001
Keywords
Isothermal titration calorimetry; Backbone 15N relaxation; Binding diversity; Hub protein
Funding
- NSF [MCB 0818896]
- AHA [09PRE2250819]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0818896] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A highly conserved and ubiquitous protein known as LC8 binds over twenty different partners, characteristic of a molecular hub (Barbar, 2008 Biochemistry, 47,503-508). Structural studies of LC8 complexes with binding partners having diverse recognition sequences show that the same binding groove of LC8 accommodates the various binding motifs. Here we use thermodynamics and dynamics measurements of LC8 complexes to group LC8 binding partners in two categories: those whose binding is enthalpically driven and those that are entropically favored. Peptides that are enthalpically driven completely silence the millisecond-microsecond relaxation signal, suggesting a significant rigidifying of the binding groove, while peptides in the entropically favored group exhibit the same conformational dynamics as the free protein, suggesting that the peptide sits loosely in the binding groove and so retains flexibility of the groove, and presumably of the bound peptide. The inherent disorder in the LC8 binding groove and in LC8 binding partners allows both types of binding, accounts for the lack of a conserved recognition consensus motif and underlies the binding specificity and broad selectivity observed in LC8 binding. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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