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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Bardwell AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4646321 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of biological chemistry 20150914 44
MAPKs bind to many of their upstream regulators and downstream substrates via a short docking motif (the D-site) on their binding partner. MAPKs that are in different families (e.g. ERK, JNK, and p38) can bind selectively to D-sites in their authentic substrates and regulators while discriminating against D-sites in other pathways. Here we demonstrate that the short hydrophobic region at the distal end of the D-site plays a critical role in determining the high selectivity of JNK MAPKs for docki ...[more]