Calculation of centralities in protein kinase A Kornev, Alexandr P; Aoto, Phillip C; Taylor, Susan S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS,
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Topological analysis of protein residue networks (PRNs) is a common method that can help to understand the roles of individual residues. Here, we used protein kinase A as a study object and asked ...what already known functionally important residues can be detected by network analysis. Along several traditional approaches to weight edges in PRNs we used local spatial pattern (LSP) alignment that assigns high weights to edges only if CαCβ vectors for the corresponding residues retain their mutual positions and orientation. Our results show that even short molecular dynamic simulations of 10 to 20 ns can give convergent values for betweenness and degree centralities calculated from the LSP-based PRNs. Using these centralities, we were able to clearly distinguish a group of residues that are highly conserved in protein kinases and play important functional and regulatory roles. In comparison, traditional methods based on cross-correlation and linear mutual information were much less efficient for this particular task. These results call for reevaluation of the current methods to generate PRNs.
PKA: Lessons learned after twenty years Taylor, Susan S.; Zhang, Ping; Steichen, Jon M. ...
Biochimica et biophysica acta,
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The first protein kinase structure, solved in 1991, revealed the fold that is shared by all members of the eukaryotic protein kinase superfamily and showed how the conserved sequence motifs cluster ...mostly around the active site. This structure of the PKA catalytic (C) subunit showed also how a single phosphate integrated the entire molecule. Since then the EPKs have become a major drug target, second only to the G-protein coupled receptors. Although PKA provided a mechanistic understanding of catalysis that continues to serve as a prototype for the family, by comparing many active and inactive kinases we subsequently discovered a hydrophobic spine architecture that is a characteristic feature of all active kinases. The ways in which the regulatory spine is dynamically assembled is the defining feature of each protein kinase. Protein kinases have thus evolved to be molecular switches, like the G-proteins, and unlike metabolic enzymes which have evolved to be efficient catalysis. PKA also shows how the dynamic tails surround the core and serve as essential regulatory elements. The phosphorylation sites in PKA, introduced both co- and post-translationally, are very stable. The resulting C-subunit is then packaged as an inhibited holoenzyme with cAMP-binding regulatory (R) subunits so that PKA activity is regulated exclusively by cAMP, not by the dynamic turnover of an activation loop phosphate. We could not understand activation and inhibition without seeing structures of R:C complexes; however, to appreciate the structural uniqueness of each R2:C2 holoenzyme required solving structures of tetrameric holoenzymes. It is these tetrameric holoenzymes that are localized to discrete sites in the cell, typically by A Kinase Anchoring Proteins where they create discrete foci for PKA signaling. Understanding these dynamic macromolecular complexes is the challenge that we now face. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Inhibitors of Protein Kinases (2012).
•We discovered a hydrophobic spine architecture in protein kinases.•This architecture defines highly dynamic nature of protein kinases.•We report diverse quaternary structures for different isoforms of protein kinase A.
Structures of set of serine-threonine and tyrosine kinases were investigated by the recently developed bioinformatics tool Local Spatial Patterns (LSP) alignment. We report a set of conserved motifs ...comprised mostly of hydrophobic residues. These residues are scattered throughout the protein sequence and thus were not previously detected by traditional methods. These motifs traverse the conserved protein kinase core and play integrating and regulatory roles. They are anchored to the F-helix, which acts as an organizing "hub" providing precise positioning of the key catalytic and regulatory elements. Consideration of these discovered structures helps to explain previously inexplicable results.
Dynamic allostery-based molecular workings of kinase Ahuja, Lalima G.; Aoto, Phillip C.; Kornev, Alexandr P. ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS,
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A dense interplay between structure and dynamics underlies the working of proteins, especially enzymes. Protein kinases are molecular switches that are optimized for their regulation rather than ...catalytic turnover rates. Using long-simulations dynamic allostery analysis, this study describes an exploration of the dynamic kinase:peptide complex. We have used protein kinase A (PKA) as a model system as a generic prototype of the protein kinase superfamily of signaling enzymes. Our results explain the role of dynamic coupling of active-site residues that must work in coherence to provide for a successful activation or inhibition response from the kinase. Amino acid networks-based community analysis allows us to ponder the conformational entropy of the kinase:nucleotide:peptide ternary complex. We use a combination of 7 peptides that include 3 types of PKA-binding partners: Substrates, products, and inhibitors. The substrate peptides provide for dynamic insights into the enzyme:substrate complex, while the product phospho-peptide allows for accessing modes of enzyme: product release. Mapping of allosteric communities onto the PKA structure allows us to locate the more unvarying and flexible dynamic regions of the kinase. These distributions, when correlated with the structural elements of the kinase core, allow for a detailed exploration of key dynamics-based signatures that could affect peptide recognition and binding at the kinase active site. These studies provide a unique dynamic allostery-based perspective to kinase:peptide complexes that have previously been explored only in a structural or thermodynamic context.
The surface comparison of different serine-threonine and tyrosine kinases reveals a set of 30 residues whose spatial positions are highly conserved. The comparison between active and inactive ...conformations identified the residues whose positions are the most sensitive to activation. Based on these results, we propose a model of protein kinase activation. This model explains how the presence of a phosphate group in the activation loop determines the position of the catalytically important aspartate in the AspPhe-Gly motif. According to the model, the most important feature of the activation is a "spine" formation that is dynamically assembled in all active kinases. The spine is comprised of four hydrophobic residues that we detected in a set of 23 eukaryotic and prokaryotic kinases. It spans the molecule and plays a coordinating role in activated kinases. The spine is disordered in the inactive kinases and can explain how stabilization of the whole molecule is achieved upon phosphorylation.
Kinases and Pseudokinases: Lessons from RAF Shaw, Andrey S.; Kornev, Alexandr P.; Hu, Jiancheng ...
Molecular and cellular biology,
05/2014, Letnik:
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Protein kinases are thought to mediate their biological effects through their catalytic activity. The large number of pseudokinases in the kinome and an increasing appreciation that they have ...critical roles in signaling pathways, however, suggest that catalyzing protein phosphorylation may not be the only function of protein kinases. Using the principle of hydrophobic spine assembly, we interpret how kinases are capable of performing a dual function in signaling. Its first role is that of a signaling enzyme (classical kinases; canonical), while its second role is that of an allosteric activator of other kinases or as a scaffold protein for signaling in a manner that is independent of phosphoryl transfer (classical pseudokinases; noncanonical). As the hydrophobic spines are a conserved feature of the kinase domain itself, all kinases carry an inherent potential to play both roles in signaling. This review focuses on the recent lessons from the RAF kinases that effectively toggle between these roles and can be "frozen" by introducing mutations at their hydrophobic spines.
Since publication of the crystal structure of protein kinase (PK)A three decades ago, a structural portrait of the conserved kinase core has been drawn. The next challenge is to elucidate structures ...of full-length kinases and to address the intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) that typically flank the core as well as the small linear motifs (SLiMs) that are embedded within the IDRs. It is increasingly apparent that unstructured regions integrate the kinase catalytic chassis into multienzyme-based regulatory networks. The extracellular signal-regulated kinase–ribosomal S6 PK–phosphoinositide-dependent kinase (ERK–RSK–PDK) complex is an excellent example to demonstrate how IDRs and SLiMs govern communication between four different kinase catalytic cores to mediate activation and how in molecular terms these promote the formation of kinase heterodimers in a context dependent fashion.
PKs contain IDRs flanking their structured kinase domain cores, which are organized into multienzyme cascades with the help of SLiMs and phosphoswitches.
Because of a common catalytic chassis, there may only be a limited number of ways for activator: receiver kinase complexes to form, albeit this could be promoted and regulated by IDRs in different ways.
p90RSK activation requires the coordinated activation of four different kinase domains where the role of SLiMs and phosphoswitches in the assembly of kinase heterodimers is biochemically well explored.
The full functionality of a given PK core can only be understood in the context of the full-length kinase and its complexes.
IDR-mediated interactions may directly be targeted as an alternative to control phosphorylation-based signaling.
Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is a large multidomain protein, and LRRK2 mutants are recognized risk factors for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Although the precise mechanisms that control LRRK2 ...regulation and function are unclear, the importance of the kinase domain is strongly implicated, since 2 of the 5 most common familial LRRK2 mutations (G2019S and I2020T) are localized to the conserved DFGψ motif in the kinase core, and kinase inhibitors are under development. Combining the concept of regulatory (R) and catalytic (C) spines with kinetic and cell-based assays, we discovered a major regulatory mechanism embedded within the kinase domain and show that the DFG motif serves as a conformational switch that drives LRRK2 activation. LRRK2 is quite unusual in that the highly conserved Phe in the DFGψ motif, which is 1 of the 4 R-spine residues, is replaced with tyrosine (DY2018GI). A Y2018F mutation creates a hyperactive phenotype similar to the familial mutation G2019S. The hydroxyl moiety of Y2018 thus serves as a “brake” that stabilizes an inactive conformation; simply removing it destroys a key hydrogen-bonding node. Y2018F, like the pathogenic mutant I2020T, spontaneously forms LRRK2-decorated microtubules in cells, while the wild type and G2019S require kinase inhibitors to form filaments. We also explored 3 different mechanisms that create kinase-dead pseudokinases, including D2017A, which further emphasizes the highly synergistic role of key hydrophobic and hydrophilic/charged residues in the assembly of active LRRK2. We thus hypothesize that LRRK2 harbors a classical protein kinase switch mechanism that drives the dynamic activation of full-length LRRK2.
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