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Figure 3.
FIGURE 3. The phosphorylation sites of GRK1. a, the RH-kinase core of GRK1. The structure corresponds to that of crystal form I (with composite C-terminal extension; see Fig. 2). The Ser^5, Thr^8, Ser^21, Ser^488, and Thr^489 phosphorylation sites are drawn as stick models. The expected position of the membrane plane is indicated. Top inset, the Ser^488 and Thr^489 phosphorylation sites correspond to the AGC kinase turn motif. Bottom inset, interaction of Thr(P)^8 with the RH domain. Gln^73 and Glu^93 form direct hydrogen bonds, whereas Lys^69 and Lys^90 complement the charge of the phosphate moiety. These crystals grew at pH 4.35, and so either Glu^93 or the phosphate group could be protonated. b, tandem mass spectrometry spectra of phosphopeptides from GRK1[535]-His[6] (Pool A, pretreated with 4 mM ATP and 2 mM MgCl[2]). Both Ser^5 and Thr^8 sites were identified in a single peptide. The Ser^5 site was also readily observed in endogenous GRK1, as were the previously observed phosphorylation sites at Ser^21, Ser^488, and Thr^489 (supplemental Fig. S7).