Site-specific phosphorylation of Lys-Ser-Pro repeat peptides from neurofilament H by cyclin-dependent kinase 5: structural basis for substrate recognition

Biochemistry
P SharmaH C Pant

Abstract

Recent work has shown that high molecular weight neurofilament (NF) proteins are phosphorylated in their carboxy-terminal tail portion by the enzyme cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK-5). The tail domain of neurofilaments contains 52 tripeptide repeats, viz. Lys-Ser-Pro, which mainly exist as KSPXK and KSPXXX motifs (X = amino acid). CDK-5 specifically phosphorylates the serine residues within the KSPXK sites. We probed the structural basis for this type of substrate selectivity by studying the conformation of synthetic peptides containing either KSPXK or KSPXXX repeats designed from native neurofilament sequences. Synthetic peptides with KSPXK repeats were phosphorylated on serine with a recombinant CDK-5/p25 complex whereas those with KSPXXX repeats were unreactive in this system. Circular dichroism (CD) studies in 50% TFE/H2O revealed a predominantly helical conformation for the KSPXXX-containing peptides, whereas the CD spectra for KSPXK-containing peptides indicated the presence of a high population of extended structures in water and 50% TFE solutions. However, detailed NMR analysis of one such peptide which included two such KSPXK repeats suggested a turn-like conformation encompassing the first KSPXK repeat. Restrained mole...Continue Reading

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