Phosphorylation Effects on Flanking Charged Residues
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- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 224 (1) , 115-123
Abstract
1H‐NMR and 31P‐NMR spectroscopy were employed to assess the electrostatic consequences of phosphorylation of single and multiple tyrosine residues in peptides derived from the core and tail autophosphorylation regions of the human insulin receptor tyrosine‐kinase domain. In both peptides, phosphorylation was accompanied by changes in the resonances from basic side‐chains; those from acidic residues were unaffected. Tyrosine phosphorylation caused increases of up to one in the pKa values of histidine residues situated up to eight residues away in the primary sequence. Titration curve analysis by Hill plots suggested some cooperativity of histidine and phosphate ionizations. Behaviour closely analogous to that of the insulin receptor tail peptide was observed during changes in phosphorylation of the intact insulin receptor kinase domain, suggesting that the electrostatic dissemination effects seen for the isolated peptide are retained by the peptide sequence in the context of the much larger protein. Similar changes in the behaviour of basic residues were also observed upon tyrosine phosphorylation of a cdc2‐derived peptide, suggesting that this potential of phosphorylation events to propagate directed structural changes may find a widespread utility in the activation of protein kinases and in the transduction of phosphorylation‐based signalling.Keywords
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