Structural analyses of the PKA RIIβ holoenzyme containing the oncogenic DnaJB1-PKAc fusion protein reveal protomer asymmetry and fusion-induced allosteric …

TW Lu, PC Aoto, JH Weng, C Nielsen, JN Cash… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
When the J-domain of the heat shock protein DnaJB1 is fused to the catalytic (C) subunit of
cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA), replacing exon 1, this fusion protein, JC subunit …

Molecular insights into the mechanisms of SUN1 oligomerization in the nuclear envelope

Z Jahed, D Fadavi, UT Vu, E Asgari, GWG Luxton… - Biophysical journal, 2018 - cell.com
The LINC complex is found in a wide variety of organisms and is formed by the transluminal
interaction between outer-and inner-nuclear-membrane KASH and SUN proteins …

Two PKA RIα holoenzyme states define ATP as an isoform-specific orthosteric inhibitor that competes with the allosteric activator, cAMP

TW Lu, J Wu, PC Aoto, JH Weng… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Protein kinase A (PKA) holoenzyme, comprised of a cAMP-binding regulatory (R)-subunit
dimer and 2 catalytic (C)-subunits, is the master switch for cAMP-mediated signaling. Of the …

Conserved salt-bridge competition triggered by phosphorylation regulates the protein interactome

JJ Skinner, S Wang, J Lee, C Ong… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Phosphorylation is a major regulator of protein interactions; however, the mechanisms by
which regulation occurs are not well understood. Here we identify a salt-bridge competition …

Structures of the PKA RIα holoenzyme with the FLHCC driver J-PKAcα or wild-type PKAcα

B Cao, TW Lu, JAM Fiesco, M Tomasini, L Fan… - Structure, 2019 - cell.com
Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FLHCC) is driven by J-PKAcα, a kinase fusion
chimera of the J domain of DnaJB1 with PKAcα, the catalytic subunit of protein kinase A …

A divergent protein kinase A regulatory subunit essential for morphogenesis of the human pathogen Leishmania

R Fischer Weinberger, S Bachmaier, V Ober… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Parasitic protozoa of the genus Leishmania cycle between the phagolysosome of
mammalian macrophages, where they reside as rounded intracellular amastigotes, and the …

Activation of PKA via asymmetric allosteric coupling of structurally conserved cyclic nucleotide binding domains

Y Hao, JP England, L Bellucci, E Paci… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cyclic nucleotide-binding (CNB) domains allosterically regulate the activity of proteins with
diverse functions, but the mechanisms that enable the cyclic nucleotide-binding signal to …

Protonation-induced dynamic allostery in PDZ domain: evidence of perturbation-independent universal response network

A Kumawat, S Chakrabarty - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dynamic allostery is a relatively new paradigm where certain external perturbations may
lead to modulation of conformational dynamics at a distant part of a protein without …

Discovery and Synthesis of a Naturally Derived Protein Kinase Inhibitor that Selectively Inhibits Distinct Classes of Serine/Threonine Kinases

L Du, BAP Wilson, N Li, R Shah, M Dalilian… - Journal of Natural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The DNAJB1–PRKACA oncogenic gene fusion results in an active kinase enzyme, J-PKAcα,
that has been identified as an attractive antitumor target for fibrolamellar hepatocellular …

Switching of the folding-energy landscape governs the allosteric activation of protein kinase A

JP England, Y Hao, L Bai, V Glick… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Protein kinases are dynamic molecular switches that sample multiple conformational states.
The regulatory subunit of PKA harbors two cAMP-binding domains [cyclic nucleotide-binding …