ASPP proteins discriminate between PP1 catalytic subunits through their SH3 domain and the PP1 C-tail

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08686-0

Authors: M. Teresa Bertran (The Francis Crick Institute) , Stephane Mouilleron (The Francis Crick Institute) , Yanxiang Zhou (The Francis Crick Institute) , Rakhi Bajaj (University of Arizona) , Federico Uliana (ETH Zürich) , Ganesan Senthil Kumar (University of Arizona) , Audrey Van Drogen (ETH Zürich) , Rebecca Lee (The Francis Crick Institute (LIF)) , Jennifer J. Banerjee (The Francis Crick Institute) , Simon Hauri (ETH Zürich) , Nicola O’reilly (The Francis Crick Institute) , Matthias Gstaiger (ETH Zürich) , Rebecca Page (University of Arizona) , Wolfgang Peti (University of Arizona) , Nicolas Tapon (The Francis Crick Institute)
Co-authored by industrial partner: No

Type: Journal Paper
Journal: Nature Communications , VOL 10

State: Published (Approved)
Published: February 2019
Diamond Proposal Number(s): 9826

Abstract: Serine/threonine phosphatases such as PP1 lack substrate specificity and associate with a large array of targeting subunits to achieve the requisite selectivity. The tumour suppressor ASPP (apoptosis-stimulating protein of p53) proteins associate with PP1 catalytic subunits and are implicated in multiple functions from transcriptional regulation to cell junction remodelling. Here we show that Drosophila ASPP is part of a multiprotein PP1 complex and that PP1 association is necessary for several in vivo functions of Drosophila ASPP. We solve the crystal structure of the human ASPP2/PP1 complex and show that ASPP2 recruits PP1 using both its canonical RVxF motif, which binds the PP1 catalytic domain, and its SH3 domain, which engages the PP1 C-terminal tail. The ASPP2 SH3 domain can discriminate between PP1 isoforms using an acidic specificity pocket in the n-Src domain, providing an exquisite mechanism where multiple motifs are used combinatorially to tune binding affinity to PP1.

Journal Keywords: Drosophila; Enzyme mechanisms; Hydrolases; NMR spectroscopy; Post-translational modifications

Diamond Keywords: Enzymes

Subject Areas: Biology and Bio-materials, Chemistry


Instruments: I02-Macromolecular Crystallography

Added On: 06/03/2019 11:04

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Discipline Tags:

Biochemistry Catalysis Chemistry Structural biology Life Sciences & Biotech

Technical Tags:

Diffraction Macromolecular Crystallography (MX)