Phosphorylation of the dimeric cytoplasmic domain of the phytosulfokine receptor, PSKR1
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Muleya, V.Marondedze, Claudius

Wheeler, J. I.
Thomas, Ludivine
Mok, Y.-F.
Griffin, M. D. W.
Manallack, D. T.
Kwezi, L.
Lilley, K. S.
Gehring, Christoph A

Irving, H. R.
KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionBioscience Core Lab
Bioscience Program
Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC)
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BAS/1/1013-01-01Date
2016-08-03Online Publication Date
2016-08-03Print Publication Date
2016-10-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622902
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Phytosulfokines (PSKs) are plant peptide hormones that co-regulate plant growth, differentiation and defense responses. PSKs signal through a plasma membrane localized leucine-rich repeat receptor-like kinase (phytosulfokine receptor 1, PSKR1) that also contains a functional cytosolic guanylate cyclase with its cyclase catalytic center embedded within the kinase domain. To functionally characterize this novel type of overlapping dual catalytic function, we investigated the phosphorylation of PSKR1 in vitro Tandem mass spectrometry of the cytoplasmic domain of PSKR1 (PSKR1cd) revealed at least 11 phosphorylation sites (8 serines, 2 threonines and 1 tyrosine) within the PSKR1cd. Phosphomimetic mutations of three serine residues (Ser686, Ser696 and Ser698) in tandem at the juxta-membrane position resulted in enhanced kinase activity in the on-mutant that was suppressed in the off-mutant, but both mutations reduced guanylate cyclase activity. Both the on and off phosphomimetic mutations of the phosphotyrosine (Tyr888) residue in the activation loop suppressed kinase activity, while neither mutation affected guanylate cyclase activity. Size exclusion and analytical ultracentrifugation analysis of the PSKR1cd suggest that it is reversibly dimeric in solution, which was further confirmed by biflourescence complementation. Taken together, these data suggest that in this novel type of receptor domain architecture, specific phosphorylation and dimerization are possibly essential mechanisms for ligand-mediated catalysis and signaling.Citation
Muleya V, Marondedze C, Wheeler JI, Thomas L, Mok Y-F, et al. (2016) Phosphorylation of the dimeric cytoplasmic domain of the phytosulfokine receptor, PSKR1. Biochemical Journal 473: 3081–3098. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bcj20160593.Sponsors
Support from the Australian Research Council's Discovery funding scheme [project numbers DP0878194 and DP110104164] and the National Research Foundation South Africa [grant numbers 78843; IRF2009021800047] is gratefully acknowledged. V.M. was supported by a scholarship from the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. M.D.W.G. is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship [DP110103528] and the CR Roper Fellowship. C.G. was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology [KAUST; BAS/1/1013-01-01]. The mass spectrometry was performed using equipment purchased via a Wellcome Trust grant [099135/Z/12/Z].Publisher
Portland Press Ltd.Journal
Biochemical JournalPubMed ID
27487840Additional Links
http://www.biochemj.org/content/473/19/3081ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1042/bcj20160593
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