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Dynamic Allostery in PLC gamma 1 and Its Modulation by a Cancer Mutation Revealed by MD Simulation and NMR

Koss, H; Bunney, TD; Esposito, D; Martins, M; Katan, M; Driscoll, PC; (2018) Dynamic Allostery in PLC gamma 1 and Its Modulation by a Cancer Mutation Revealed by MD Simulation and NMR. Biophysical Journal , 115 (1) pp. 31-45. 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.05.031. Green open access

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Abstract

Phosphatidylinositol phospholipase Cγ (PLCγ) is an intracellular membrane-associated second-messenger signaling protein activated by tyrosine kinases such as fibroblast growth factor receptor 1. PLCγ contains the regulatory γ-specific array (γSA) comprising a tandem Src homology 2 (SH2) pair, an SH3 domain, and a split pleckstrin homology domain. Binding of an activated growth factor receptor to γSA leads to Tyr783 phosphorylation and consequent PLCγ activation. Several disease-relevant mutations in γSA have been identified; all lead to elevated phospholipase activity. In this work, we describe an allosteric mechanism that connects the Tyr783 phosphorylation site to the nSH2-cSH2 junction and involves dynamic interactions between the cSH2-SH3 linker and cSH2. Molecular dynamics simulations of the tandem SH2 protein suggest that Tyr783 phosphorylation is communicated to the nSH2-cSH2 junction by modulating cSH2 binding to sections of the cSH2-SH3 linker. NMR chemical shift perturbation analyses for designed tandem SH2 constructs reveal combined fast and slow dynamic processes that can be attributed to allosteric communication involving these regions of the protein, establishing an example in which complex N-site exchange can be directly inferred from 1H,15N-HSQC spectra. Furthermore, in tandem SH2 and γSA constructs, molecular dynamics and NMR results show that the Arg687Trp mutant in PLCγ1 (equivalent to the cancer mutation Arg665Trp in PLCγ2) perturbs the dynamic allosteric pathway. This combined experimental and computational study reveals a rare example of multistate kinetics involved in a dynamic allosteric process that is modulated in the context of a disease-relevant mutation. The allosteric influences and the weakened binding of the cSH2-SH3 linker to cSH2 should be taken into account in any more holistic investigation of PLCγ regulation.

Type: Article
Title: Dynamic Allostery in PLC gamma 1 and Its Modulation by a Cancer Mutation Revealed by MD Simulation and NMR
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.05.031
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2018.05.031
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Structural and Molecular Biology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10053139
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