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Identification of Kinase-substrate Pairs Using High Throughput Screening
Published on: August 29, 2015
Increasing the kinase specificity of k252a by protein surface recognition
Tanya L Schneider1, Rebecca S Mathew, Kevin P Rice
1Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, USA.
Abstract:
[reaction: see text] Here we describe a miniature protein (1) that presents the cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) recognition epitope found within the heat-stable Protein Kinase Inhibitor protein (PKI) and a miniature protein conjugate (1-K252a) in which 1 is joined covalently to the high-affinity but nonselective kinase inhibitor K252a. Miniature protein 1 recognizes PKA with an affinity that rivals that of PKI and, in the context of 1-K252a, leads to a dramatic increase in kinase specificity.
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