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Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases
Catalytic signaling outputs of protein kinases are dynamically regulated by an array of structural mechanisms, including allosteric interactions mediated by intrinsically disordered segments flanking the conserved catalytic domain. The doublecortin-like kinases (DCLKs) are a family of microtubule-as...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10602587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37883155 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87958 |
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author | Venkat, Aarya Watterson, Grace Byrne, Dominic P O'Boyle, Brady Shrestha, Safal Gravel, Nathan Fairweather, Emma E Daly, Leonard A Bunn, Claire Yeung, Wayland Aggarwal, Ishan Katiyar, Samiksha Eyers, Claire E Eyers, Patrick A Kannan, Natarajan |
author_facet | Venkat, Aarya Watterson, Grace Byrne, Dominic P O'Boyle, Brady Shrestha, Safal Gravel, Nathan Fairweather, Emma E Daly, Leonard A Bunn, Claire Yeung, Wayland Aggarwal, Ishan Katiyar, Samiksha Eyers, Claire E Eyers, Patrick A Kannan, Natarajan |
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description | Catalytic signaling outputs of protein kinases are dynamically regulated by an array of structural mechanisms, including allosteric interactions mediated by intrinsically disordered segments flanking the conserved catalytic domain. The doublecortin-like kinases (DCLKs) are a family of microtubule-associated proteins characterized by a flexible C-terminal autoregulatory ‘tail’ segment that varies in length across the various human DCLK isoforms. However, the mechanism whereby these isoform-specific variations contribute to unique modes of autoregulation is not well understood. Here, we employ a combination of statistical sequence analysis, molecular dynamics simulations, and in vitro mutational analysis to define hallmarks of DCLK family evolutionary divergence, including analysis of splice variants within the DCLK1 sub-family, which arise through alternative codon usage and serve to ‘supercharge’ the inhibitory potential of the DCLK1 C-tail. We identify co-conserved motifs that readily distinguish DCLKs from all other calcium calmodulin kinases (CAMKs), and a ‘Swiss Army’ assembly of distinct motifs that tether the C-terminal tail to conserved ATP and substrate-binding regions of the catalytic domain to generate a scaffold for autoregulation through C-tail dynamics. Consistently, deletions and mutations that alter C-terminal tail length or interfere with co-conserved interactions within the catalytic domain alter intrinsic protein stability, nucleotide/inhibitor binding, and catalytic activity, suggesting isoform-specific regulation of activity through alternative splicing. Our studies provide a detailed framework for investigating kinome-wide regulation of catalytic output through cis-regulatory events mediated by intrinsically disordered segments, opening new avenues for the design of mechanistically divergent DCLK1 modulators, stabilizers, or degraders. |
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spelling | pubmed-106025872023-10-27 Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases Venkat, Aarya Watterson, Grace Byrne, Dominic P O'Boyle, Brady Shrestha, Safal Gravel, Nathan Fairweather, Emma E Daly, Leonard A Bunn, Claire Yeung, Wayland Aggarwal, Ishan Katiyar, Samiksha Eyers, Claire E Eyers, Patrick A Kannan, Natarajan eLife Computational and Systems Biology Catalytic signaling outputs of protein kinases are dynamically regulated by an array of structural mechanisms, including allosteric interactions mediated by intrinsically disordered segments flanking the conserved catalytic domain. The doublecortin-like kinases (DCLKs) are a family of microtubule-associated proteins characterized by a flexible C-terminal autoregulatory ‘tail’ segment that varies in length across the various human DCLK isoforms. However, the mechanism whereby these isoform-specific variations contribute to unique modes of autoregulation is not well understood. Here, we employ a combination of statistical sequence analysis, molecular dynamics simulations, and in vitro mutational analysis to define hallmarks of DCLK family evolutionary divergence, including analysis of splice variants within the DCLK1 sub-family, which arise through alternative codon usage and serve to ‘supercharge’ the inhibitory potential of the DCLK1 C-tail. We identify co-conserved motifs that readily distinguish DCLKs from all other calcium calmodulin kinases (CAMKs), and a ‘Swiss Army’ assembly of distinct motifs that tether the C-terminal tail to conserved ATP and substrate-binding regions of the catalytic domain to generate a scaffold for autoregulation through C-tail dynamics. Consistently, deletions and mutations that alter C-terminal tail length or interfere with co-conserved interactions within the catalytic domain alter intrinsic protein stability, nucleotide/inhibitor binding, and catalytic activity, suggesting isoform-specific regulation of activity through alternative splicing. Our studies provide a detailed framework for investigating kinome-wide regulation of catalytic output through cis-regulatory events mediated by intrinsically disordered segments, opening new avenues for the design of mechanistically divergent DCLK1 modulators, stabilizers, or degraders. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10602587/ /pubmed/37883155 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87958 Text en © 2023, Venkat, Watterson, Byrne et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Computational and Systems Biology Venkat, Aarya Watterson, Grace Byrne, Dominic P O'Boyle, Brady Shrestha, Safal Gravel, Nathan Fairweather, Emma E Daly, Leonard A Bunn, Claire Yeung, Wayland Aggarwal, Ishan Katiyar, Samiksha Eyers, Claire E Eyers, Patrick A Kannan, Natarajan Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases |
title | Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases |
title_full | Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases |
title_fullStr | Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases |
title_full_unstemmed | Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases |
title_short | Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases |
title_sort | mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in dclk family kinases |
topic | Computational and Systems Biology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10602587/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37883155 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.87958 |
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