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Mol. Cell. Biol., 10 1995, 5627-5634, Vol 15, No. 10
Z Weng, RJ Rickles, S Feng, S Richard, AS Shaw, SL Schreiber and JS Brugge
SH3 domains mediate intracellular protein-protein interactions through the
recognition of proline-rich sequence motifs on cellular proteins.
Structural analysis of the Src SH3 domain (Src SH3) complexed with
proline-rich peptide ligands revealed three binding sites involved in this
interaction: two hydrophobic interactions (between aliphatic proline
dipeptides in the SH3 ligand and highly conserved aromatic residues on the
surface of the SH3 domain), and one salt bridge (between Asp-99 of Src and
an Arg three residues upstream of the conserved Pro-X-X-Pro motif in the
ligand). We examined the importance of the arginine binding site of SH3
domains by comparing the binding properties of wild-type Src SH3 and Abl
SH3 with those of a Src SH3 mutant containing a mutated arginine binding
site (D99N) and Abl SH3 mutant constructs engineered to contain an arginine
binding site (T98D and T98D/F91Y). We found that the D99N mutation
diminished binding to most Src SH3-binding proteins in whole cell extracts;
however, there was only a moderate reduction in binding to a small subset
of Src SH3- binding proteins (including the Src substrate p68). p68 was
shown to contain two Arg-containing Asp-99-dependent binding sites and one
Asp- 99-independent binding site which lacks an Arg. Moreover, substitution
of Asp for Thr-98 in Abl SH3 changed the binding specificity of this domain
and conferred the ability to recognize Arg-containing ligands.(ABSTRACT
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Structure-function analysis of SH3 domains: SH3 binding specificity altered by single amino acid substitutions
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