14-3-3 proteins are abundant binding proteins involved in many biologically important processes. 14-3-3 proteins bind to other proteins in a phosphorylation-dependent manner and function as scaffold molecules modulating the activity of their binding partners. In this work, we studied the conformational changes of 14-3-3 C-terminal stretch, a region implicated in playing a role in the regulation of 14-3-3. Time-resolved fluorescence and molecular dynamics were used to investigate structural changes of the C-terminal stretch induced by phosphopeptide binding and phosphorylation at Thr232, a casein kinase I phosphorylation site located within this region. A tryptophan residue placed at position 242 was exploited as an intrinsic fluorescence probe of the C-terminal stretch dynamics. Other tryptophan residues were mutated to phenylalanine. Time-resolved fluorescence measurements revealed that phosphopeptide binding changes the conformation and increases the flexibility of 14-3-3zeta C-terminal stretch, demonstrating that this region is directly involved in ligand binding. Phosphorylation of 14-3-3zeta at Thr232 resulted in inhibition of phosphopeptide binding and suppression of 14-3-3-mediated enhancement of serotonin N-acetyltransferase activity. Time-resolved fluorescence of Trp242 also revealed that phosphorylation at Thr232 induces significant changes of the C-terminal stretch conformation. In addition, molecular dynamic simulations suggest that phosphorylation at Thr232 induces a more extended conformation of 14-3-3zeta C-terminal stretch and changes its interaction with the rest of the 14-3-3 molecule. These results indicate that the conformation of the C-terminal stretch plays an important role in the regulation of 14-3-3 binding properties.

Department of Physical and Macromolecular Chemistry Faculty of Science Charles University 128 43 Prague Czech Republic

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