Decoding Protein-Protein Interactions through Combinatorial Chemistry: Sequence Specificity of SHP-1, SHP-2, and SHIP SH2 Domains
文摘
A general, combinatorial library method for the rapid identification of high-affinity peptideligands of protein modular domains is reported. The validity of this method has been demonstrated bydetermining the sequence specificity of four Src homology 2 (SH2) domains derived from protein tyrosinephosphatase SHP-1 and SHP-2 and inositol phosphatase SHIP. A phosphotyrosyl (pY) peptide librarywas screened against the SH2 domains, and the beads that carry high-affinity ligands of the SH2 domainswere identified and peptides were sequenced by partial Edman degradation and mass spectrometry. Theresults reveal that the N-terminal SH2 domain of SHP-2 is capable of recognizing four different classesof pY peptides. Binding competition studies suggest that the four classes of pY peptides all bind to thesame site on the SH2 domain surface. The C-terminal SH2 domains of SHP-1 and SHP-2 and the SHIPSH2 domain each bind to pY peptides of a single consensus sequence. Database searches using theconsensus sequences identified most of the known as well as many potential interacting proteins of SHP-1and/or SHP-2. Several proteins are found to bind to the SH2 domains of SHP-1 and SHP-2 through anew, nonclassical ITIM motif, (V/I/L)XpY(M/L/F)XP, which corresponds to the class IV peptides selectedfrom the pY library. The combinatorial library method should be generally applicable to other proteindomains.