Abstract
Post-translationally modified proteins make up the majority of the proteome and establish, to a large part, the impressive level of functional diversity in higher, multi-cellular organisms. Most eukaryotic post-translational protein modifications (PTMs) denote reversible, covalent additions of small chemical entities such as phosphate-, acyl-, alkyl- and glycosyl-groups onto selected subsets of modifiable amino acids. In turn, these modifications induce highly specific changes in the chemical environments of individual protein residues, which are readily detected by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy. In the following, we provide a concise compendium of NMR characteristics of the main types of eukaryotic PTMs: serine, threonine, tyrosine and histidine phosphorylation, lysine acetylation, lysine and arginine methylation, and serine, threonine O-glycosylation. We further delineate the previously uncharacterized NMR properties of lysine propionylation, butyrylation, succinylation, malonylation and crotonylation, which, altogether, define an initial reference frame for comprehensive PTM studies by high-resolution NMR spectroscopy.
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We would like to thank Rachel Klevit, Olga Vinogradova, Tanja Mittag and Julie Forman-Kay for providing original NMR spectra for reproduction in this manuscript. F.X.T. acknowledges support from the Association pour la Researche contre le Cancer (ARC). P.S. acknowledges funding by an Emmy Noether research grant (SE1794/1-1) from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). R. W. K. acknowledges support from NIH core grant P30CA21765 (to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) and 5R01CA082491 (to R. W. K.), and the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC) of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We further express our gratitude to Angela Gronenborn and Georges Mer for expert advice and stimulating discussions in the course of writing the paper.
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Theillet, FX., Smet-Nocca, C., Liokatis, S. et al. Cell signaling, post-translational protein modifications and NMR spectroscopy. J Biomol NMR 54, 217–236 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10858-012-9674-x
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