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Crystal Structure of Caskin1/CASK complex reveals the molecular basis of the binding specificity of CASK_CAMK domain and its binding partners

Wang, Y.; Chen, Q.; Jiang, R.; Ye, X.; Wan, J.; Li, J.; Liu, W.

2022-01-17 biochemistry
10.1101/2022.01.16.476467 bioRxiv
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CASK is a unique scaffold protein in the synapse system. It links numerous proteins to the pre- or post-synaptic region and is critical to the homeostasis of synaptic vesicles. The N-terminus of CASK is a calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CAMK) domain, which has diverse functions and interacts with downstream proteins to form a scaffold platform. Caskin1 is one of the brain-specific adaptor proteins of CASK. Previous studies showed that CASK_CAMK domain interacts with Caskin1 CID domain with relatively low affinity. In this study, we re-visit this interaction by remapping the interaction boundary and solving their complex structure. Based on the structure, we systematically compared the interactions between CASK_CAMK and other binding partners. Our results showed that CAMK domain occupies the CID peptide by using its C-lobe groove (between the 1 and 2) and there is a highly conserved signature motif ({zeta}-x-{psi}-W-{psi}-x-R) in the CID domain, where {zeta} is acidic side chain containing residues, x is any amino acid residue, {psi} is hydrophobic residues, W is for tryptophan, and R is arginine. These findings allowed us to identify several new potential cytoplasmic binding partners for CASK_CAMK.

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