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. 1999 May 14;274(20):14163-9.
doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.20.14163.

Shared and unique determinants of the erythropoietin (EPO) receptor are important for binding EPO and EPO mimetic peptide

S A Middleton  1 , F P Barbone, D L Johnson, R L Thurmond, Y You, F J McMahon, R Jin, O Livnah, J Tullai, F X Farrell, M A Goldsmith, I A Wilson, L K Jolliffe
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Shared and unique determinants of the erythropoietin (EPO) receptor are important for binding EPO and EPO mimetic peptide

S A Middleton et al. J Biol Chem. .
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Abstract

We have shown previously that Phe93 in the extracellular domain of the erythropoietin (EPO) receptor (EPOR) is crucial for binding EPO. Substitution of Phe93 with alanine resulted in a dramatic decrease in EPO binding to the Escherichia coli-expressed extracellular domain of the EPOR (EPO-binding protein or EBP) and no detectable binding to full-length mutant receptor expressed in COS cells. Remarkably, Phe93 forms extensive contacts with a peptide ligand in the crystal structure of the EBP bound to an EPO-mimetic peptide (EMP1), suggesting that Phe93 is also important for EMP1 binding. We used alanine substitution of EBP residues that contact EMP1 in the crystal structure to investigate the function of these residues in both EMP1 and EPO binding. The three largest hydrophobic contacts at Phe93, Met150, and Phe205 and a hydrogen bonding interaction at Thr151 were examined. Our results indicate that Phe93 and Phe205 are important for both EPO and EMP1 binding, Met150 is not important for EPO binding but is critical for EMP1 binding, and Thr151 is not important for binding either ligand. Thus, Phe93 and Phe205 are important binding determinants for both EPO and EMP1, even though these ligands share no sequence or structural homology, suggesting that these residues may represent a minimum epitope on the EPOR for productive ligand binding.

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