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. 1992 Nov 1;287(Pt 3):791–795. doi: 10.1042/bj2870791

A protonated histidine residue in a phosphorylation site for cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase. Comparison of a synthetic peptide with the exposed linking region in the multienzyme polypeptide CAD.

E A Carrey 1
PMCID: PMC1133077  PMID: 1359877

Abstract

The multienzyme polypeptide CAD is phosphorylated at two sites by cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent protein kinase. Site 2 has two interesting features: it is located in a 'linking region' between two discretely folded enzyme domains, and a histidine, instead of the more usual arginine, is found three positions N-terminal to the phosphorylated serine. A synthetic peptide corresponding to the sequence around site 2 has an extended or random structure in solution, and the proton n.m.r. chemical shift of the histidine residues can be titrated against pH in the range 6.0-8.0. The peptide is phosphorylated more rapidly by cAMP-dependent protein kinase at lower pH values, indicating that the protonated histidine side chain corresponds to the arginine in the consensus recognition sequence for the kinase. Kemptide, a specific synthetic substrate for the kinase, was phosphorylated with a higher affinity and at a similar rate at all pH values. CAD was a better substrate than the synthetic peptide, and labelling was not affected by the pH of the incubation conditions. The results indicate that the phosphorylation site in the interdomain linker is sufficiently exposed to the solvent to ensure accessibility to the kinase, but that secondary or tertiary structure in the intact protein allows the histidine residue to remain protonated at physiological pH and enhances recognition of the phosphorylatable serine residue.

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