A Journey from Phosphotyrosine to Phosphohistidine and Beyond

Overview

Journal Mol Cell

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2022 Jun 2

PMID 35654043

Authors

Tony Hunter

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Abstract

Protein phosphorylation is a reversible post-translational modification. Nine of the 20 natural amino acids in proteins can be phosphorylated, but most of what we know about the roles of protein phosphorylation has come from studies of serine, threonine, and tyrosine phosphorylation. Much less is understood about the phosphorylation of histidine, lysine, arginine, cysteine, aspartate, and glutamate, so-called non-canonical phosphorylations. Phosphohistidine (pHis) was discovered 60 years ago as a mitochondrial enzyme intermediate; since then, evidence for the existence of histidine kinases and phosphohistidine phosphatases has emerged, together with examples where protein function is regulated by reversible histidine phosphorylation. pHis is chemically unstable and has thus been challenging to study. However, the recent development of tools for studying pHis has accelerated our understanding of the multifaceted functions of histidine phosphorylation, revealing a large number of proteins that are phosphorylated on histidine and implicating pHis in a wide range of cellular processes.

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