title: Peptide recognition by PTB and PDZ domains.
abstract: Protein tyrosine binding (PTB) and 'post synaptic density disc-large zo-1' (PDZ) domains bind to short peptidic ligands by augmentation of one of the domain's beta sheets and other recognition mechanisms. The two domain classes have a superficial resemblance to each other, even though no sequential homology exists. The structural bases of the interactions are well understood for the few domains now experimentally determined, and ligand-target pairs can probably be identified in favorable cases by analogy with the known domains. For both PTB and PDZ classes, functional activities are still not fully defined: it is possible that these domain classes, along with pleckstrin homology domains, have multiple roles.
authors.affiliation: Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021-6399, USA. cowburn@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
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authors.lastname: Cowburn
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D019000:Phosphotyrosine / Q000378:metabolism*; D011485:Protein Binding; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D018909:src Homology Domains
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011506:Proteins; D019000:Phosphotyrosine