Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

A litmus test for classifying recognition mechanisms of transiently binding proteins

  • Kalyan S. Chakrabarti,
  • Simon Olsson,
  • Supriya Pratihar,
  • Karin Giller,
  • Kerstin Overkamp,
  • Ko On Lee,
  • Vytautas Gapsys,
  • Kyoung-Seok Ryu,
  • Bert L. de Groot,
  • Frank Noé,
  • Stefan Becker,
  • Donghan Lee,
  • Thomas R. Weikl,
  • Christian Griesinger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31374-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The authors provide a litmus test for the recognition mechanism of transiently binding proteins based on nuclear magnetic resonance and find a conformational selection binding mechanism through concentration-dependent kinetics of ubiquitin and SH3.