PMID- 30507144 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190730 LR - 20231213 IS - 1520-4995 (Electronic) IS - 0006-2960 (Print) IS - 0006-2960 (Linking) VI - 57 IP - 51 DP - 2018 Dec 26 TI - Structural Basis for Graded Inhibition of CREB:DNA Interactions by Multisite Phosphorylation. PG - 6964-6972 LID - 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b01092 [doi] AB - Phosphorylation of the kinase inducible domain (KID) of the cyclic AMP response element binding transcription factor (CREB) regulates its function through several mechanisms. Transcriptional activation occurs following phosphorylation at serine 133, but multisite phosphorylation in a neighboring region termed the CK cassette, residues 108-117, results in inhibition of CREB-mediated transcription. A molecular-level understanding of the mechanism of these opposing reactions has been lacking, in part because of the difficulty of preparing multiply phosphorylated CREB in vitro. By substituting a single residue, we have generated an engineered mammalian CREB in which the CK cassette can be phosphorylated in vitro by casein kinases and have characterized its interactions with cyclic AMP response element DNA. Phosphorylation of the CK cassette promotes an intramolecular interaction between the KID domain and the site of DNA binding, the basic region of the C-terminal basic leucine zipper (bZip) domain. Competition between the phosphorylated KID domain and DNA for bZip binding results in a decreased affinity of CREB for DNA. The binding free energy calculated from the dissociation constant is directly proportional to the number of phosphate groups in the CK cassette, indicating that the DNA binding is regulated by a rheostat-like mechanism. The rheostat is modulated by variation of the concentration of cations such as Mg(2+) and by alternative isoforms such as the natural CREB isoform that lacks residues 162-272. Multisite phosphorylation of CREB represents a versatile mechanism by which transcription can be tuned to meet the variable needs of the cell. FAU - Shnitkind, Sergey AU - Shnitkind S AD - Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology , The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 North Torrey Pines Road , La Jolla , California 92037 , United States. FAU - Martinez-Yamout, Maria A AU - Martinez-Yamout MA AD - Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology , The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 North Torrey Pines Road , La Jolla , California 92037 , United States. FAU - Dyson, H Jane AU - Dyson HJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6855-3398 AD - Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology , The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 North Torrey Pines Road , La Jolla , California 92037 , United States. FAU - Wright, Peter E AU - Wright PE AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1368-0223 AD - Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology , The Scripps Research Institute , 10550 North Torrey Pines Road , La Jolla , California 92037 , United States. LA - eng GR - R01 CA214054/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20181213 PL - United States TA - Biochemistry JT - Biochemistry JID - 0370623 RN - 0 (Creb1 protein, rat) RN - 0 (Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein) RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) RN - I38ZP9992A (Magnesium) MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Amino Acid Substitution MH - Animals MH - Binding Sites MH - Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein/*chemistry/genetics/*metabolism MH - DNA/genetics/*metabolism MH - Fluorescence Polarization MH - Magnesium/pharmacology MH - Mutagenesis, Site-Directed MH - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular MH - Phosphorylation MH - Protein Binding MH - Protein Domains MH - Protein Engineering MH - Rats PMC - PMC6474821 MID - NIHMS1001423 EDAT- 2018/12/07 06:00 MHDA- 2019/07/31 06:00 PMCR- 2019/12/26 CRDT- 2018/12/04 06:00 PHST- 2018/12/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/07/31 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/12/04 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/12/26 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b01092 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biochemistry. 2018 Dec 26;57(51):6964-6972. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b01092. Epub 2018 Dec 13.