Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Classification of the human phox homology (PX) domains based on their phosphoinositide binding specificities

  • Mintu Chandra,
  • Yanni K.-Y. Chin,
  • Caroline Mas,
  • J. Ryan Feathers,
  • Blessy Paul,
  • Sanchari Datta,
  • Kai-En Chen,
  • Xinying Jia,
  • Zhe Yang,
  • Suzanne J. Norwood,
  • Biswaranjan Mohanty,
  • Andrea Bugarcic,
  • Rohan D. Teasdale,
  • W. Mike Henne,
  • Mehdi Mobli,
  • Brett M. Collins

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09355-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Phox homology (PX) domains are membrane interacting domains that bind to various lipids. Here authors screen all human PX domains systematically for their phospholipid preferences and define four classes and provide the basis for defining and predicting functional PX-membrane interactions.