SH3 is a ubiquitous domain mediating protein-protein interactions. Recent solution NMR structural studies have shown that a proline-rich peptide is capable of binding to the human vinexin SH3 domain. Here, an orthogonal amber tRNA/tRNA synthetase pair for (15)N/(19)F-trifluoromethyl-phenylalanine ((15)N/(19)F-tfmF) has been applied to achieve site-specific labeling of SH3 at three different sit...

Membrane-associated guanylate kinases (MAGUKs), such as PSD-95, are modular scaffolds that organize signaling complexes at synapses and other cell junctions. MAGUKs contain PDZ domains, which recruit signaling proteins, as well as a Src homology 3 (SH3) and a guanylate kinase-like (GK) domain, implicated in scaffold oligomerization. The crystal structure of the SH3-GK module from PSD-95 reveals...

Let Φ ∈ Rm×n be a sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform [KN] with s non-zeroes per column. For T a subset of the unit sphere, ε ∈ (0, 1/2) given, we study settings for m, s required to ensure E Φ sup x∈T ∣∣‖Φx‖22 − 1∣∣ < ε, i.e. so that Φ preserves the norm of every x ∈ T simultaneously and multiplicatively up to 1 + ε. In particular, our most general theorem shows that it suffices to set m = ...

The SH3 domain of the PI3 kinase (PI3-SH3 or PI3K-SH3) readily aggregates into fibrils in vitro and has served as an important model system in the investigation of the molecular properties and mechanism of formation of amyloid fibrils. We describe the molecular conformation of PI3-SH3 in amyloid fibril form as revealed by magic-angle spinning (MAS) solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) s...

A current model for the regulation of the Src protein-tyrosine kinase proposes that the COOH-terminal phosphotyrosine, Tyr-527, binds to the Src homology 2 (SH2) region in an intramolecular interaction that represses the kinase domain. This model is consistent with the activation of Src by mutations in the SH2 domain or COOH terminus. Mutations in the SH3 domain also activate Src, although this...

The crystal structure of an alpha-spectrin Src-homology 3 (SH3) domain mutant has been refined at 1.12 A resolution. This X-ray structure is at the highest resolution achieved so far for an SH3 domain. The structure allows the identification of a complete set of specific interactions and is useful for the elucidation of relations between structure and pH-dependent thermodynamic stability in a s...

Spectrins are major components of the membrane skeleton. This protein scaffold is implicated in membrane stabilization, cell spreading, establishment of cell polarity and location of specific membrane proteins. Understanding the diversity of these functions requires to better characterize the complex interactions of these molecules with other cellular proteins through the study of specific modu...