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Figure 4.
Figure 4. Titration Experiments for the Phosphorylated Ligand Variants
(A) Bar representation showing the average chemical-shift changes observed for the amide domain residues upon addition of the peptides PY (brown), PY1phosYa (green), and PY1phosYb (yellow) with respect to the free domain. PY was measured at a ratio of 1:2.5 domain:ligand; PY1phosYa and PY1phosYb were measured at ratios of 1:7 and 1:2.5, respectively. The inset corresponds to the HSQC region displaying the N[ epsilon ]H peaks of arginines (nitrogen chemical shift is folded). Black signals correspond to the reference spectrum. The final point of the PY titration is plotted in brown, PY1phosYa titration is shown in green, and PY1phosYb is shown in yellow. Although the addition of peptide PY induces changes mainly in R19 (on the left), the presence of a tyrosine phosphorylated in PY1phosYa also affects the resonance of R28.
(B) Amide changes observed upon addition of peptides PY2phosY (green) and PY2phosS (orange) corresponding to the second PPxY motif present in LMP2A. Changes induced by PY are plotted as a reference. Changes were not followed to saturation. The inset corresponds to the HSQC region displaying the N[ epsilon ]H peaks of arginines as in (A). Tyrosine phosphorylation of the second PPxY motif present in LMP2A also induces changes in R28, but in this case the changes observed in R19 are smaller than those observed for the PY and PY1phosYa peptides. We attribute these differences to the absence of negatively charged residues preceding the PPxY motif in both PY2phosS and PY2phosY peptides.
(C) Model based on the minimum-energy structure of ItchWW3 in complex with PY peptide, showing that the phosphotyrosine in the PPxY motif can be accommodated in the complex.