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Protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) is an essential enzyme for every eukaryotic cell and catalyzes more than half of all protein dephosphorylations at serine and threonine residues. The free catalytic subunit of PP1 shows little substrate selectivity but is tightly regulated in vivo by a large variety of structurally unrelated PP1-interacting proteins (PIPs). PIPs form highly specific dimeric or trimeric PP1 holoenzymes by acting as substrates, inhibitors, and/or substrate-specifiers. The surface of PP1 contains many binding sites for short PP1-docking motifs that are combined by PIPs to create a PP1-binding code that is universal, specific, degenerate, nonexclusive, and dynamic. These properties of the PP1-binding code can be used for the rational design of small molecules that disrupt subsets of PP1 holoenzymes and have a therapeutic potential.

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Shannah Boens, Kathelijne Szekér, Aleyde Van Eynde, Mathieu Bollen. Interactor-guided dephosphorylation by protein phosphatase-1. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2013;1053:271-81


PMID: 23860659

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