title: A MAPK scaffold lends a helping hand.
abstract: The scaffold proteins of signaling pathways are thought to act as passive tethering devices bringing together catalytic components of signaling cascades. Good et al. (2009) now reveal that in the budding yeast the scaffold protein Ste5 acts as an allosteric activator of the mitogen-activated protein kinase Fus3, rendering it competent to be a kinase substrate for signal transmission.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Markus A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Seeliger
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kuriyan
mesh_terms: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing / Q000378:metabolism*; D000494:Allosteric Regulation; D004789:Enzyme Activation; D020935:MAP Kinase Signaling System; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism*; D012441:Saccharomyces cerevisiae / Q000378:metabolism*; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D048868:Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; C080321:STE5 protein, S cerevisiae; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; C075580:FUS3 protein, S cerevisiae; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases