title: A site of interaction between pleckstrin's PH domains and G beta gamma.
abstract: Pleckstrin is a 40 kDa substrate for protein kinase C found in platelets and neutrophils. Based upon its sequence, pleckstrin contains two of the recently-described PH domains that are thought to be binding motifs for phosphatidyl 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and/or G protein beta gamma heterodimers (G beta gamma). In the present studies we have examined the interaction between pleckstrin and G beta gamma by incubating pleckstrin fusion proteins with lysates from human platelets. In this analysis, both the N-terminal and C-terminal PH domains from pleckstrin bound G beta gamma in vitro, as did peptides containing as little as the first 30 residues of the C-terminal pleckstrin PH domain. Introduction of a point mutation into this region, analogous to the mutation in the Btk PH domain that causes X-linked immunodeficiency disease (XID) in mice, dramatically disrupted this interaction. We propose that pleckstrin may interact with G beta gamma, and that one potential site for this interaction involves the first 30 residues of pleckstrin's C-terminal PH domain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA. abramsc@mail.med.upenn.edu
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Abrams
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Brass
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000378:metabolism; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D019281:Dimerization; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D005982:Glutathione Transferase / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D017354:Point Mutation; D011485:Protein Binding; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001798:Blood Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; C039077:platelet protein P47; D005982:Glutathione Transferase; D019204:GTP-Binding Proteins