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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 18
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-10-9
pubmed:abstractText
PDZ domains are protein-protein recognition modules that play a central role in organizing diverse cell signaling assemblies. These domains specifically recognize short C-terminal peptide motifs, but can also recognize internal sequences that structurally mimic a terminus. PDZ domains can therefore be used in combination to bind an array of target proteins or to oligomerize into branched networks. Several PDZ-domain-containing proteins play an important role in the transport, localization and assembly of supramolecular signaling complexes. Examples of such PDZ-mediated assemblies exist in Drosophila photoreceptor cells and at mammalian synapses. The predominance of PDZ domains in metazoans indicates that this highly specialized scaffolding module probably evolved in response to the increased signaling needs of multicellular organisms.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Drosophila Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Insect Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Ligands, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Macromolecular Substances, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Membrane Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nerve Tissue Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Phosphoproteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Tumor Suppressor Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/discs large 1 protein, Drosophila, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/postsynaptic density proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/zonula occludens-1 protein
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0021-9533
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
114
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3219-31
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Amino Acid Motifs, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Caenorhabditis elegans, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Drosophila Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Drosophila melanogaster, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Insect Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Macromolecular Substances, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Models, Chemical, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Phosphoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Sequence Homology, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:11591811-Tumor Suppressor Proteins
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Mechanism and role of PDZ domains in signaling complex assembly.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0450, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review