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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Traffic. 2012 Jan 13;13(4):511–519. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2011.01321.x

Table 1.

The clathrin-binding motifs.

adaptor motif clathrin HC location1 key clathrin HC residues1 examples sequence motif
TD site 1: clathrin-box motif LØXØ[DE] TD groove between blades 1 & 2 Ile80
Thr87
Gln89
Phe91
Lys96
Lys98

amphiphysin
β-arrestin 1
AP-2 β2 subunit
S.c.2 Ent1/2p
S.c. Yap1802p
S.c. Apl2p (AP-1 β1)

LLDLD
LIEFE
LLNLD
LIDL*4
LIDM*
LLDLD
TD site 2: W-box motif PWXXW top of β-propeller Phe27
Gln152
Ile154
Ile170
amphiphysin
SNX9
PWDLW
PWSAW
TD site 3: β-arrestin 1L site [LI][LI]GXL TD groove between blades 4 & 5 R188
Q192
β-arrestin 1L
AP-2 β2 subunit
LLGDL
LLGDL
TD site 4 unknown TD exposed surface of blade 7 Glu11 unknown not available
ankle unknown non linear? CHC1R1/2 Cys682
Gly710
GGA1 Thr613 +
Asn622
1

See Figure 1D and 1E for the relative positioning of the four TD interaction surfaces.

2

The locations of the colored side chains are indicated in Figure 1D and 1E.

3

S.c. is Saccharomyces cerevisiae

4

The * symbol indicates the extreme C-terminus of the protein.