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J Biol Chem ; 294(37): 13755-13768, 2019 09 13.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31346033

ABSTRACT

Protection of neuronal homeostasis is a major goal in the management of neurodegenerative diseases. Microtubule-associated Ser/Thr kinase 2 (MAST2) inhibits neurite outgrowth, and its inhibition therefore represents a potential therapeutic strategy. We previously reported that a viral protein (G-protein from rabies virus) capable of interfering with protein-protein interactions between the PDZ domain of MAST2 and the C-terminal moieties of its cellular partners counteracts MAST2-mediated suppression of neurite outgrowth. Here, we designed peptides derived from the native viral protein to increase the affinity of these peptides for the MAST2-PDZ domain. Our strategy involved modifying the length and flexibility of the noninteracting sequence linking the two subsites anchoring the peptide to the PDZ domain. Three peptides, Neurovita1 (NV1), NV2, and NV3, were selected, and we found that they all had increased affinities for the MAST2-PDZ domain, with Kd values decreasing from 1300 to 60 nm, while target selectivity was maintained. A parallel biological assay evaluating neurite extension and branching in cell cultures revealed that the NV peptides gradually improved neural activity, with the efficacies of these peptides for stimulating neurite outgrowth mirroring their affinities for MAST2-PDZ. We also show that NVs can be delivered into the cytoplasm of neurons as a gene or peptide. In summary, our findings indicate that virus-derived peptides targeted to MAST2-PDZ stimulate neurite outgrowth in several neuron types, opening up promising avenues for potentially using NVs in the management of neurodegenerative diseases.


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Neurites/metabolism , Neuronal Outgrowth/drug effects , PDZ Domains/physiology , Central Nervous System Stimulants/metabolism , Humans , Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells , Microtubules/metabolism , Neurons/metabolism , Peptides/metabolism , Peptides/pharmacology , Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs , Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism , Rabies virus , Structure-Activity Relationship , Viral Proteins/metabolism , Viral Proteins/pharmacology
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Nat Methods ; 12(8): 787-93, 2015 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26053890

ABSTRACT

Many protein interactions are mediated by small linear motifs interacting specifically with defined families of globular domains. Quantifying the specificity of a motif requires measuring and comparing its binding affinities to all its putative target domains. To this end, we developed the high-throughput holdup assay, a chromatographic approach that can measure up to 1,000 domain-motif equilibrium binding affinities per day. After benchmarking the approach on 210 PDZ-peptide pairs with known affinities, we determined the affinities of two viral PDZ-binding motifs derived from human papillomavirus E6 oncoproteins for 209 PDZ domains covering 79% of the human 'PDZome'. We obtained sharply sequence-dependent binding profiles that quantitatively describe the PDZome recognition specificity of each motif. This approach, applicable to many categories of domain-ligand interactions, has wide potential for quantifying the specificities of interactomes.


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High-Throughput Screening Assays , PDZ Domains , Protein Interaction Mapping/methods , Proteins/chemistry , Amino Acid Motifs , Chromatography , DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry , Humans , Kinetics , Ligands , Oncogene Proteins, Viral/chemistry , Protein Conformation , Proteome , Repressor Proteins/chemistry , Systems Biology
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