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SUBMITTER: McCleverty CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2206669 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCleverty Clare J CJ Lin Diane C DC Liddington Robert C RC
Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society 20070501 6
Tensin is a cytoskeletal protein that links integrins to the actin cytoskeleton at sites of cell-matrix adhesion. Here we describe the crystal structure of the phosphotyrosine-binding (PTB) domain of tensin1, and show that it binds integrins in an NPxY-dependent fashion. Alanine mutagenesis of both the PTB domain and integrin tails supports a model of integrin binding similar to that of the PTB-like domain of talin. However, we also show that phosphorylation of the NPxY tyrosine, which disrupts ...[more]