期刊
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
卷 438, 期 1, 页码 169-174出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.07.047
关键词
p21-activated kinases (PAKs); Auto-inhibition; Intrinsically unstructured protein (IUP); Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC); NMR spectroscopy; X-ray crystallography
资金
- Ministry of Education (MOE) of Singapore Tier 2 [MOE2011-T2-1-096]
- MOE [R-154-000-388-112]
Six human PAM members are classified into groups I (PAKs 1-3) and II (PAK4-6). Previously, only group I PAKs were thought to be auto-inhibited but very recently PAK4, the prototype of group II PAKs, has also been shown to be auto-inhibited by its N-terminal regulatory domain. However, the complete auto-inhibitory domain (AID) sequence remains undefined and the mechanism underlying its auto-inhibition is largely elusive. Here, the N-terminal regulatory domain of PAK4 sufficient for auto-inhibiting and binding Cdc42/Rac was characterized to be intrinsically unstructured, but nevertheless we identified the entire AID sequence by NMR. Strikingly, an AID peptide was derived by deleting the binding-unnecessary residues, which has a Kd of 320 nM to the PAK4 catalytic domain. Consequently, the PAK4 crystal structure complexed with the entire AID has been determined, which reveals that the complete kinase cleft is occupied by 20 AID residuescomposed of an N-terminal a-helix and a previously-identified pseudosu-bstrate motif, thus achieving auto-inhibition. Our study reveals that PAK4 is auto-inhibited by a novel mechanism which is completely different from that for PAK1, thus bearing critical implications for design of inhibitors specific for group II PAKs. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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