ACS Chemical Biology
ACS Chemical Biology
5 years ago

Site-Specific Phosphorylation of PSD-95 PDZ Domains Reveals Fine-Tuned Regulation of Protein–Protein Interactions

Site-Specific Phosphorylation of PSD-95 PDZ Domains Reveals Fine-Tuned Regulation of Protein–Protein Interactions
Hannah Wapenaar, Fei Ye, Mark E. Bowen, Louise Albertsen, Kristian Strømgaard, Stine B. Pedersen, Griffin E. Moran, Lina Bartels, Brié Levesque, Søren W. Pedersen, Mingjie Zhang
The postsynaptic density protein of 95 kDa (PSD-95) is a key scaffolding protein that controls signaling at synapses in the brain through interactions of its PDZ domains with the C-termini of receptors, ion channels, and enzymes. PSD-95 is highly regulated by phosphorylation. To explore the effect of phosphorylation on PSD-95, we used semisynthetic strategies to introduce phosphorylated amino acids at four positions within the PDZ domains and examined the effects on interactions with a large set of binding partners. We observed complex effects on affinity. Most notably, phosphorylation at Y397 induced a significant increase in affinity for stargazin, as confirmed by NMR and single molecule FRET. Additionally, we compared the effects of phosphorylation to phosphomimetic mutations, which revealed that phosphomimetics are ineffective substitutes for tyrosine phosphorylation. Our strategy to generate site-specifically phosphorylated PDZ domains provides a detailed understanding of the role of phosphorylation in the regulation of PSD-95 interactions.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.7b00361

DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.7b00361

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