scholarly journals In-depth and 3-Dimensional Exploration of the Budding Yeast Phosphoproteome

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Charles Lanz ◽  
Kumar Yugandhar ◽  
Shagun Gupta ◽  
Ethan Sanford ◽  
Vitor Faça ◽  
...  

AbstractPhosphorylation is one of the most dynamic and widespread post-translational modifications regulating virtually every aspect of eukaryotic cell biology. Here we present a comprehensive phosphoproteomic dataset for budding yeast, comprised of over 30,000 high confidence phosphorylation sites identified by mass spectrometry. This single dataset nearly doubles the size of the known phosphoproteome in budding yeast and defines a set of cell cycle-regulated phosphorylation events. With the goal of enhancing the identification of functional phosphorylation events, we performed computational positioning of phosphorylation sites on available 3D protein structures and systematically identified events predicted to regulate protein complex architecture. Results reveal a large number of phosphorylation sites mapping to or near protein interaction interfaces, many of which result in steric or electrostatic “clashes” predicted to disrupt the interaction. Phosphorylation site mutants experimentally validate our predictions and support a role for phosphorylation in negatively regulating protein-protein interactions. With the advancement of Cryo-EM and the increasing number of available structures, our approach should help drive the functional and spatial exploration of the phosphoproteome.

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minghui Wang ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Binghua Wang ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Ao Li

Protein phosphorylation is catalyzed by kinases which regulate many aspects that control death, movement, and cell growth. Identification of the phosphorylation site-specific kinase-substrate relationships (ssKSRs) is important for understanding cellular dynamics and provides a fundamental basis for further disease-related research and drug design. Although several computational methods have been developed, most of these methods mainly use local sequence of phosphorylation sites and protein-protein interactions (PPIs) to construct the prediction model. While phosphorylation presents very complicated processes and is usually involved in various biological mechanisms, the aforementioned information is not sufficient for accurate prediction. In this study, we propose a new and powerful computational approach named KSRPred for ssKSRs prediction, by introducing a novel phosphorylation site-kinase network (pSKN) profiles that can efficiently incorporate the relationships between various protein kinases and phosphorylation sites. The experimental results show that the pSKN profiles can efficiently improve the prediction performance in collaboration with local sequence and PPI information. Furthermore, we compare our method with the existing ssKSRs prediction tools and the results demonstrate that KSRPred can significantly improve the prediction performance compared with existing tools.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Cheng ◽  
Weihua Zhang ◽  
Jianlin Hu ◽  
Ziyang Zhang ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
...  

Abstract Background ICE1 (inducer of CBF expression 1), a MYC-like bHLH transcriptional activator, plays an important role in plant under cold stress via regulating transcriptional expression of downstream cold-responsive genes. Ubiquitination-proteasome pathway mediated by high expression of osmotically responsive gene1 (HOS1) can effectively induce the degradation of ICE1 and decrease the expression of expression of CBFs and their downstream genes under cold stress response in Arabidopsis , but the knowledge about ubiquitination regulation of ICE1 by HOS1 is still unknown in woody plants.Results The complete EcaICE1 gene and a new E3 ubiquitin ligase gene EcaHOS1 were amplified from the tissue culture seedlings of Eucalyptus camaldulensis . Yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) and BiFC assay results showed that EcaICE1 can interact with EcaHOS1 protein in the nucleus, and further Y2H assay demonstrated that the 126-185 amino acid region at the N-terminus of EcaICE1 protein was indispensable for its interaction with EcaHOS1 protein. Moreover, we found that the amino acids at positions 143, 145, 158 and 184 within the key interaction region were the potential phosphorylation sites of EcaICE1 based on bioinformatics analysis, and that only the substitution of Serine (Ser) 158 by Alanine (Ala) blocked the protein-protein interactions between EcaICE1 and EcaHOS1 by Y2H and β-galactosidase assays using site-direct mutagenesis. Overexpression of EcaICE1 and its mutations in Arabidopsis could significantly increase POD and SOD activities with a reduction for MDA content and up-regulate four cold-responsive genes ( CBF3 , KIN1 , COR15 and COR47A ) in the transgenic lines.Conclusion We first reported that EcaICE1 could interact with EcaHOS1 protein in Eucalyptus , and identified Ser 158 of EcaICE1 as the key phosphorylation site for its interaction with EcaHOS1 protein.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Watson ◽  
Jean-Marc Schwartz ◽  
Chiara Francavilla

AbstractMass spectrometry-based quantitative phosphoproteomics has become an essential approach in the study of cellular processes such as cell signaling. Commonly used methods to analyze phosphoproteomics datasets depend on generic, gene-centric annotations such as Gene Ontology terms and do not account for the function of a protein in a given phosphorylation state. Thus, analysis of phosphoproteomics data is hampered by a lack of phosphorylated site-specific annotations. Here, we propose a method that combines shotgun phosphoproteomics data, protein-protein interactions and functional annotations from ontologies or pathway databases into a heterogeneous multilayer network. Phosphorylation sites are then associated to potential functions using a random walk on heterogeneous network (RWHN) algorithm. We validated our approach using a dataset modelling the MAPK/ERK pathway and were able to associate differentially regulated sites on the same protein to their previously described functions. Random permutation analysis proved that these associations were not random and were determined by the network topology. We then applied the RWHN algorithm to two previously published datasets; the algorithm was able to reproduce the experimentally validated conclusions from the publications, and associate phosphorylation sites with both new and known functions based on their regulatory patterns. The approach described here provides a robust, phosphorylation site-centric method to analyzing phosphoproteomics data and identifying potential context-specific functions for sites with similar phosphorylation profiles.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Cheng ◽  
Weihua Zhang ◽  
Jianlin Hu ◽  
Ziyang Zhang ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
...  

AbstractICE1 (inducer of CBF expression 1), a MYC-like bHLH transcriptional activator, plays an important role in plant under cold stress via regulating transcriptional expression of downstream cold-responsive genes. Ubiquitination-proteasome pathway mediated by high expression of osmotically responsive gene1 (HOS1) can effectively induce the degradation of ICE1 and decrease the expression of expression of CBFs and their downstream genes under cold stress response in Arabidopsis, but the knowledge about ubiquitination regulation of ICE1 by HOS1 is still limited in woody plants. In this study, a complete open reading frame of EcaICE1 gene and EcaHOS1 was amplified from the tissue culture seedlings of Eucalyptus camaldulensis. Yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) and BiFC assay results showed that EcaICE1 can interact with EcaHOS1 protein in the nucleus, and further Y2H assay demonstrated that the 126-185 amino acid region at the N-terminus of EcaICE1 protein was indispensable for its interaction with EcaHOS1 protein. Moreover, we found that the amino acids at positions 143, 145, 158 and 184 within the key interaction region were the potential phosphorylation sites of EcaICE1 based on bioinformatics analysis, and that only the substitution of Serine (Ser) 158 by Alanine (Ala) blocked the protein-protein interactions between EcaICE1 and EcaHOS1 by Y2H and β-galactosidase assays using site-direct mutagenesis. In summary, we first reported that EcaICE1 could interact with EcaHOS1 protein in Eucalyptus, and identified Ser 158 of EcaICE1 as the key phosphorylation site for its interaction with EcaHOS1 protein.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Song Yang ◽  
Kasey Jividen ◽  
Teddy Kamata ◽  
Natalia Dworak ◽  
Luke Oostdyk ◽  
...  

AbstractAndrogen signaling through the androgen receptor (AR) directs gene expression in both normal and prostate cancer cells. Androgen regulates multiple aspects of the AR life cycle, including its localization and post-translational modification, but understanding how modifications are read and integrated with AR activity has been difficult. Here, we show that ADP-ribosylation regulates AR through a nuclear pathway mediated by Parp7. We show that Parp7 mono-ADP-ribosylates agonist-bound AR, and that ADP-ribosyl-cysteines within the N-terminal domain mediate recruitment of the E3 ligase Dtx3L/Parp9. Molecular recognition of ADP-ribosyl-cysteine is provided by tandem macrodomains in Parp9, and Dtx3L/Parp9 modulates expression of a subset of AR-regulated genes. Parp7, ADP-ribosylation of AR, and AR-Dtx3L/Parp9 complex assembly are inhibited by Olaparib, a compound used clinically to inhibit poly-ADP-ribosyltransferases Parp1/2. Our study reveals the components of an androgen signaling axis that uses a writer and reader of ADP-ribosylation to regulate protein-protein interactions and AR activity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Harrington ◽  
Jordan M. Fletcher ◽  
Tamara Heermann ◽  
Derek N. Woolfson ◽  
Petra Schwille

AbstractModules that switch protein-protein interactions on and off are essential to develop synthetic biology; for example, to construct orthogonal signaling pathways, to control artificial protein structures dynamically, and for protein localization in cells or protocells. In nature, the E. coli MinCDE system couples nucleotide-dependent switching of MinD dimerization to membrane targeting to trigger spatiotemporal pattern formation. Here we present a de novo peptide-based molecular switch that toggles reversibly between monomer and dimer in response to phosphorylation and dephosphorylation. In combination with other modules, we construct fusion proteins that couple switching to lipid-membrane targeting by: (i) tethering a ‘cargo’ molecule reversibly to a permanent membrane ‘anchor’; and (ii) creating a ‘membrane-avidity switch’ that mimics the MinD system but operates by reversible phosphorylation. These minimal, de novo molecular switches have potential applications for introducing dynamic processes into designed and engineered proteins to augment functions in living cells and add functionality to protocells.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Miaomiao Bai ◽  
Dongdong Ti ◽  
Qian Mei ◽  
Jiejie Liu ◽  
Xin Yan ◽  
...  

The human body is a complex structure of cells, which are exposed to many types of stress. Cells must utilize various mechanisms to protect their DNA from damage caused by metabolic and external sources to maintain genomic integrity and homeostasis and to prevent the development of cancer. DNA damage inevitably occurs regardless of physiological or abnormal conditions. In response to DNA damage, signaling pathways are activated to repair the damaged DNA or to induce cell apoptosis. During the process, posttranslational modifications (PTMs) can be used to modulate enzymatic activities and regulate protein stability, protein localization, and protein-protein interactions. Thus, PTMs in DNA repair should be studied. In this review, we will focus on the current understanding of the phosphorylation, poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation, ubiquitination, SUMOylation, acetylation, and methylation of six typical PTMs and summarize PTMs of the key proteins in DNA repair, providing important insight into the role of PTMs in the maintenance of genome stability and contributing to reveal new and selective therapeutic approaches to target cancers.


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. e1008988
Author(s):  
Nikolina ŠoŠtarić ◽  
Vera van Noort

Post-translational modifications (PTMs) play a vital, yet often overlooked role in the living cells through modulation of protein properties, such as localization and affinity towards their interactors, thereby enabling quick adaptation to changing environmental conditions. We have previously benchmarked a computational framework for the prediction of PTMs’ effects on the stability of protein-protein interactions, which has molecular dynamics simulations followed by free energy calculations at its core. In the present work, we apply this framework to publicly available data on Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein structures and PTM sites, identified in both normal and stress conditions. We predict proteome-wide effects of acetylations and phosphorylations on protein-protein interactions and find that acetylations more frequently have locally stabilizing roles in protein interactions, while the opposite is true for phosphorylations. However, the overall impact of PTMs on protein-protein interactions is more complex than a simple sum of local changes caused by the introduction of PTMs and adds to our understanding of PTM cross-talk. We further use the obtained data to calculate the conformational changes brought about by PTMs. Finally, conservation of the analyzed PTM residues in orthologues shows that some predictions for yeast proteins will be mirrored to other organisms, including human. This work, therefore, contributes to our overall understanding of the modulation of the cellular protein interaction networks in yeast and beyond.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atilio O. Rausch ◽  
Maria I. Freiberger ◽  
Cesar O. Leonetti ◽  
Diego M. Luna ◽  
Leandro G. Radusky ◽  
...  

Once folded natural protein molecules have few energetic conflicts within their polypeptide chains. Many protein structures do however contain regions where energetic conflicts remain after folding, i.e. they have highly frustrated regions. These regions, kept in place over evolutionary and physiological timescales, are related to several functional aspects of natural proteins such as protein-protein interactions, small ligand recognition, catalytic sites and allostery. Here we present FrustratometeR, an R package that easily computes local energetic frustration on a personal computer or a cluster. This package facilitates large scale analysis of local frustration, point mutants and MD trajectories, allowing straightforward integration of local frustration analysis in to pipelines for protein structural analysis.Availability and implementation: https://github.com/proteinphysiologylab/frustratometeR


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