TY - JOUR
T1 - Structure and mutagenesis of the Dbl homology domain
AU - Aghazadeh, Behzad
AU - Zhu, Kejin
AU - Kubiseski, Terrance J.
AU - Liu, Grace A.
AU - Pawson, Tony
AU - Zheng, Yi
AU - Rosen, Michael K.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Y. Min Chook and J. Goldberg for discussion and critical reading of the manuscript; J.Goldberg and S. Bagrodia and R. Cerione for communicating results prior to publication; L. Kay for generously providing many of the NMR pulse sequences used in this study; M. Clore for advice; A. Majumdar and Y. Gosser for assistance with NMR data acquisition; J. Hubbard for computer system support and S. Freihaut for expert administrative assistance. B.A. is supported by a grant from the U.S. Army Breast Cancer Program. M.K.R. gratefully acknowledges support from the National Institutes of Health (PECASE program), Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation and Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research.
PY - 1998/12
Y1 - 1998/12
N2 - Guanine nucleotide exchange factors in the Dbl family activate Rho GTPases by accelerating dissociation of bound GDP, promoting acquisition of the GTP-bound state. Dbl proteins possess a ~200 residue catalytic Dbl- homology (DH) domain, that is arranged in tandem with a C-terminal pleckstrin homology (PH) domain in nearly all cases. Here we report the solution structure of the DH domain of human PAK-interacting exchange protein (βPIX). The domain is composed of 11 α-helices that form a flattened, elongated bundle. The structure explains a large body of mutagenesis data, which, along with sequence comparisons, identify the GTPase interaction site as a surface formed by three conserved helices near the center of one face of the domain. Proximity of the site to the DH C-terminus suggests a means by which PH- ligand interactions may be coupled to DH-GTPase interactions to regulate signaling through the Dbl proteins in vivo.
AB - Guanine nucleotide exchange factors in the Dbl family activate Rho GTPases by accelerating dissociation of bound GDP, promoting acquisition of the GTP-bound state. Dbl proteins possess a ~200 residue catalytic Dbl- homology (DH) domain, that is arranged in tandem with a C-terminal pleckstrin homology (PH) domain in nearly all cases. Here we report the solution structure of the DH domain of human PAK-interacting exchange protein (βPIX). The domain is composed of 11 α-helices that form a flattened, elongated bundle. The structure explains a large body of mutagenesis data, which, along with sequence comparisons, identify the GTPase interaction site as a surface formed by three conserved helices near the center of one face of the domain. Proximity of the site to the DH C-terminus suggests a means by which PH- ligand interactions may be coupled to DH-GTPase interactions to regulate signaling through the Dbl proteins in vivo.
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U2 - 10.1038/4209
DO - 10.1038/4209
M3 - Review article
C2 - 9846881
AN - SCOPUS:0031788635
SN - 1072-8368
VL - 5
SP - 1098
EP - 1107
JO - Nature Structural Biology
JF - Nature Structural Biology
IS - 12
ER -