Publication Date:
2006-01-21
Description:
Scaffold proteins organize signaling proteins into pathways and are often viewed as passive assembly platforms. We found that the Ste5 scaffold has a more active role in the yeast mating pathway: A fragment of Ste5 allosterically activated autophosphorylation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase Fus3. The resulting form of Fus3 is partially active-it is phosphorylated on only one of two key residues in the activation loop. Unexpectedly, at a systems level, autoactivated Fus3 appears to have a negative regulatory role, promoting Ste5 phosphorylation and a decrease in pathway transcriptional output. Thus, scaffolds not only direct basic pathway connectivity but can precisely tune quantitative pathway input-output properties.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bhattacharyya, Roby P -- Remenyi, Attila -- Good, Matthew C -- Bashor, Caleb J -- Falick, Arnold M -- Lim, Wendell A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Feb 10;311(5762):822-6. Epub 2006 Jan 19.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California-San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-2240, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16424299" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Allosteric Regulation
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Amino Acid Motifs
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Binding Sites
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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Down-Regulation
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Enzyme Activation
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*MAP Kinase Signaling System
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Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Models, Biological
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Models, Molecular
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Mutation
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Pheromones/*physiology
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Phosphorylation
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Protein Binding
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Protein Structure, Tertiary
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics/*metabolism
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Transcription, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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