title: Pleckstrin homology domain as an inositol compound binding module.
abstract: Many of the proteins that participate in cell signalling contain structural modules involved in regulatory interactions between components of signal transduction cascades. One of such modules is the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain, a region of approximately 120 amino acids that can form an electrostatically polarized tertiary structure. Several molecules such as inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate/phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate, the betagamma-subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins and protein kinase C have been proposed as common ligands for the PH domain. Through these potential interactions, the PH domain has been proposed to play a role in membrane recruitment of proteins containing the PH domain, thus targeting them to appropriate cellular compartment or enabling them to interact with other components of the signal transduction pathway. In this review, we mainly focus on membrane targeting through the binding to inositol phosphates/phosphoinositides.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hirata
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanematsu
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yagisawa
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D007295:Inositol Phosphates / Q000378:metabolism*; D008024:Ligands; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism; D010750:Phosphoproteins; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D015398:Signal Transduction; D055672:Static Electricity
chemical_list: D001798:Blood Proteins; D007295:Inositol Phosphates; D008024:Ligands; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D010750:Phosphoproteins; C039077:platelet protein P47