title: Recognition of unique carboxyl-terminal motifs by distinct PDZ domains.
abstract: The oriented peptide library technique was used to investigate the peptide-binding specificities of nine PDZ domains. Each PDZ domain selected peptides with hydrophobic residues at the carboxyl terminus. Individual PDZ domains selected unique optimal motifs defined primarily by the carboxyl terminal three to seven residues of the peptides. One family of PDZ domains, including those of the Discs Large protein, selected peptides with the consensus motif Glu-(Ser/Thr)-Xxx-(Val/Ile) (where Xxx represents any amino acid) at the carboxyl terminus. In contrast, another family of PDZ domains, including those of LIN-2, p55, and Tiam-1, selected peptides with hydrophobic or aromatic side chains at the carboxyl terminal three residues. On the basis of crystal structures of the PSD-95-3 PDZ domain, the specificities observed with the peptide library can be rationalized.
authors.affiliation: Division of Signal Transduction, Beth Israel Hospital, and Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Songyang
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Fanning
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Marfatia
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Chishti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Crompton
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Cantley
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D020662:Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; D051528:Guanylate Kinases; D015801:Helminth Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D016547:Kinesins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009218:Myosins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D009703:Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D019151:Peptide Library; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D000075684:T-Lymphoma Invasion and Metastasis-inducing Protein 1
chemical_list: C095516:AFDN protein, human; D020662:Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors; D015801:Helminth Proteins; C097978:Lin-2 protein, C elegans; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D019151:Peptide Library; D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins; D000075684:T-Lymphoma Invasion and Metastasis-inducing Protein 1; C087334:TIAM1 protein, human; C033652:postsynaptic density proteins; D009703:Nucleoside-Phosphate Kinase; D051528:Guanylate Kinases; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; D009218:Myosins; D016547:Kinesins