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1.
Proteins ; 87(5): 425-429, 2019 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30788856

ABSTRACT

Tandem beta zippers are modular complexes formed between repeated linear motifs and tandemly arrayed domains of partner proteins in which ß-strands form upon binding. Studies of such complexes, formed by LIM domain proteins and linear motifs in their intrinsically disordered partners, revealed spacer regions between the linear motifs that are relatively flexible but may affect the overall orientation of the binding modules. We demonstrate that mutation of a solvent exposed side chain in the spacer region of an LHX4-ISL2 complex has no significant effect on the structure of the complex, but decreases binding affinity, apparently by increasing flexibility of the linker.


Subject(s)
DNA, Intergenic/ultrastructure , DNA-Binding Proteins/ultrastructure , LIM-Homeodomain Proteins/ultrastructure , Transcription Factors/ultrastructure , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Binding Sites/genetics , DNA, Intergenic/chemistry , DNA, Intergenic/genetics , DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry , DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics , LIM-Homeodomain Proteins/chemistry , LIM-Homeodomain Proteins/genetics , Mice , Models, Molecular , Multiprotein Complexes/chemistry , Multiprotein Complexes/genetics , Multiprotein Complexes/ultrastructure , Mutation/genetics , Protein Binding/genetics , Protein Structure, Secondary , Protein Structure, Tertiary , Sequence Homology, Amino Acid , Transcription Factors/chemistry , Transcription Factors/genetics
2.
J Clin Invest ; 125(8): 2979-94, 2015 Aug 03.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26214525

ABSTRACT

Heterozygous germline mutations in the zinc finger transcription factor GATA2 have recently been shown to underlie a range of clinical phenotypes, including Emberger syndrome, a disorder characterized by lymphedema and predisposition to myelodysplastic syndrome/acute myeloid leukemia (MDS/AML). Despite well-defined roles in hematopoiesis, the functions of GATA2 in the lymphatic vasculature and the mechanisms by which GATA2 mutations result in lymphedema have not been characterized. Here, we have provided a molecular explanation for lymphedema predisposition in a subset of patients with germline GATA2 mutations. Specifically, we demonstrated that Emberger-associated GATA2 missense mutations result in complete loss of GATA2 function, with respect to the capacity to regulate the transcription of genes that are important for lymphatic vessel valve development. We identified a putative enhancer element upstream of the key lymphatic transcriptional regulator PROX1 that is bound by GATA2, and the transcription factors FOXC2 and NFATC1. Emberger GATA2 missense mutants had a profoundly reduced capacity to bind this element. Conditional Gata2 deletion in mice revealed that GATA2 is required for both development and maintenance of lymphovenous and lymphatic vessel valves. Together, our data unveil essential roles for GATA2 in the lymphatic vasculature and explain why a select catalogue of human GATA2 mutations results in lymphedema.


Subject(s)
GATA2 Transcription Factor/metabolism , Lymphatic Vessels/embryology , Lymphedema/embryology , Mutation , Animals , Enhancer Elements, Genetic , Forkhead Transcription Factors/genetics , Forkhead Transcription Factors/metabolism , GATA2 Transcription Factor/genetics , Gene Deletion , Homeodomain Proteins/genetics , Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism , Humans , K562 Cells , Lymphatic Vessels/pathology , Lymphedema/genetics , Lymphedema/pathology , Mice , NFATC Transcription Factors/genetics , NFATC Transcription Factors/metabolism , Tumor Suppressor Proteins/genetics , Tumor Suppressor Proteins/metabolism
3.
PLoS One ; 9(10): e109108, 2014.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25310299

ABSTRACT

LIM-domain only protein 4 (LMO4) is a widely expressed protein with important roles in embryonic development and breast cancer. It has been reported to bind many partners, including the transcription factor Deformed epidermal autoregulatory factor-1 (DEAF1), with which LMO4 shares many biological parallels. We used yeast two-hybrid assays to show that DEAF1 binds both LIM domains of LMO4 and that DEAF1 binds the same face on LMO4 as two other LMO4-binding partners, namely LIM domain binding protein 1 (LDB1) and C-terminal binding protein interacting protein (CtIP/RBBP8). Mutagenic screening analysed by the same method, indicates that the key residues in the interaction lie in LMO4LIM2 and the N-terminal half of the LMO4-binding domain in DEAF1. We generated a stable LMO4LIM2-DEAF1 complex and determined the solution structure of that complex. Although the LMO4-binding domain from DEAF1 is intrinsically disordered, it becomes structured on binding. The structure confirms that LDB1, CtIP and DEAF1 all bind to the same face on LMO4. LMO4 appears to form a hub in protein-protein interaction networks, linking numerous pathways within cells. Competitive binding for LMO4 therefore most likely provides a level of regulation between those different pathways.


Subject(s)
Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/metabolism , LIM Domain Proteins/metabolism , Nuclear Proteins/metabolism , DNA-Binding Proteins , Humans , Protein Binding , Protein Structure, Tertiary , Transcription Factors , Two-Hybrid System Techniques
4.
J Biol Chem ; 289(32): 21844-55, 2014 Aug 08.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24920672

ABSTRACT

The nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) complex is a widely conserved transcriptional co-regulator that harbors both nucleosome remodeling and histone deacetylase activities. It plays a critical role in the early stages of ES cell differentiation and the reprogramming of somatic to induced pluripotent stem cells. Abnormalities in several NuRD proteins are associated with cancer and aging. We have investigated the architecture of NuRD by determining the structure of a subcomplex comprising RbAp48 and MTA1. Surprisingly, RbAp48 recognizes MTA1 using the same site that it uses to bind histone H4, showing that assembly into NuRD modulates RbAp46/48 interactions with histones. Taken together with other results, our data show that the MTA proteins act as scaffolds for NuRD complex assembly. We further show that the RbAp48-MTA1 interaction is essential for the in vivo integration of RbAp46/48 into the NuRD complex.


Subject(s)
Histone Deacetylases/chemistry , Mi-2 Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase Complex/chemistry , Repressor Proteins/chemistry , Retinoblastoma-Binding Protein 4/chemistry , Amino Acid Sequence , Animals , Chromatin Assembly and Disassembly , Conserved Sequence , Crystallography, X-Ray , Histone Deacetylases/genetics , Histone Deacetylases/metabolism , Histones/metabolism , Humans , Mi-2 Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase Complex/genetics , Mi-2 Nucleosome Remodeling and Deacetylase Complex/metabolism , Models, Molecular , Molecular Sequence Data , Nuclear Proteins/chemistry , Nuclear Proteins/genetics , Nuclear Proteins/metabolism , Nucleosomes/metabolism , Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs , Repressor Proteins/genetics , Repressor Proteins/metabolism , Retinoblastoma-Binding Protein 4/genetics , Retinoblastoma-Binding Protein 4/metabolism , Retinoblastoma-Binding Protein 7/chemistry , Retinoblastoma-Binding Protein 7/genetics , Retinoblastoma-Binding Protein 7/metabolism , Sequence Homology, Amino Acid , Trans-Activators , Transcription Factors/chemistry , Transcription Factors/genetics , Transcription Factors/metabolism
5.
Biomol NMR Assign ; 6(1): 31-4, 2012 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21643835

ABSTRACT

LMO4 is a broadly expressed LIM-only protein that is involved in neural tube development and implicated in breast cancer. Here we report backbone and side chain NMR assignments for an engineered intramolecular complex of the N-terminal LIM domain from LMO4 tethered to residues 641-685 of C-terminal binding protein interacting protein (CtIP/RBBP8).


Subject(s)
Carrier Proteins/chemistry , LIM-Homeodomain Proteins/chemistry , Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular , Amino Acid Sequence , Carrier Proteins/metabolism , LIM-Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism , Molecular Sequence Data
6.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 108(35): 14443-8, 2011 Aug 30.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21844373

ABSTRACT

The control of red blood cell and megakaryocyte development by the regulatory protein GATA1 is a paradigm for transcriptional regulation of gene expression in cell lineage differentiation and maturation. Most GATA1-regulated events require GATA1 to bind FOG1, and essentially all GATA1-activated genes are cooccupied by a TAL1/E2A/LMO2/LDB1 complex; however, it is not known whether FOG1 and TAL1/E2A/LMO2/LDB1 are simultaneously recruited by GATA1. Our structural data reveal that the FOG1-binding domain of GATA1, the N finger, can also directly contact LMO2 and show that, despite the small size (< 50 residues) of the GATA1 N finger, both FOG1 and LMO2 can simultaneously bind this domain. LMO2 in turn can simultaneously contact both GATA1 and the DNA-binding protein TAL1/E2A at bipartite E-box/WGATAR sites. Taken together, our data provide the first structural snapshot of multiprotein complex formation at GATA1-dependent genes and support a model in which FOG1 and TAL1/E2A/LMO2/LDB1 can cooccupy E-box/WGATAR sites to facilitate GATA1-mediated activation of gene activation.


Subject(s)
DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry , GATA1 Transcription Factor/chemistry , Metalloproteins/chemistry , Nuclear Proteins/chemistry , Transcription Factors/chemistry , Transcription, Genetic , Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing , Binding, Competitive , DNA/metabolism , DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism , GATA1 Transcription Factor/metabolism , LIM Domain Proteins , Metalloproteins/metabolism , Models, Anatomic , Nuclear Proteins/metabolism , Protein Structure, Quaternary , Protein Structure, Tertiary , Proto-Oncogene Proteins , Transcription Factors/metabolism
7.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun ; 354(1): 197-202, 2007 Mar 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17214969

ABSTRACT

CtIP is a tumor suppressor that interacts with Retinoblastoma protein (Rb) to regulate the G1/S-phase transition of the cell cycle. Despite its large size (897 residues) CtIP has few known structured regions. Rather it contains several linear motifs that interact with known binding partners, including an LXCXE motif that binds the pocket domain of Rb-family proteins. This LXCXE motif lies at the C-terminus of the only known structured domain, an N-terminal coiled-coil dimerization domain (DD; residues 45-160). Yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) and GST-pulldown analyses showed that CtIP requires the LXCXE motif to bind the Rb-pocket. Although isothermal titration calorimetry data indicates that the LXCXE motif is the sole determinant of binding affinity for the Rb-pocket domain (K(A) approximately 10(6)M(-1)), Y2H data indicates that the DD is required to stabilize the interaction in vivo. Thus dimerization may increase the apparent stability of the proteins and/or the lifetime of the complexes.


Subject(s)
Carrier Proteins/chemistry , Carrier Proteins/metabolism , Nuclear Proteins/chemistry , Nuclear Proteins/metabolism , Retinoblastoma Protein/chemistry , Retinoblastoma Protein/metabolism , Amino Acid Motifs , Amino Acid Sequence , Binding Sites , Dimerization , Endodeoxyribonucleases , Molecular Sequence Data , Protein Binding , Protein Interaction Mapping , Protein Structure, Tertiary , Structure-Activity Relationship
8.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 103(52): 19683-8, 2006 Dec 26.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17179049

ABSTRACT

Allosteric regulation is a fundamental mechanism of biological control. Here, we investigated the allosteric mechanism by which GTP inhibits cross-linking activity of transglutaminase 2 (TG2), a multifunctional protein, with postulated roles in receptor signaling, extracellular matrix assembly, and apoptosis. Our findings indicate that at least two components are involved in functionally coupling the allosteric site and active center of TG2, namely (i) GTP binding to mask a conformationally destabilizing switch residue, Arg-579, and to facilitate interdomain interactions that promote adoption of a compact, catalytically inactive conformation and (ii) stabilization of the inactive conformation by an uncommon H bond between a cysteine (Cys-277, an active center residue) and a tyrosine (Tyr-516, a residue located on a loop of the beta-barrel 1 domain that harbors the GTP-binding site). Although not essential for GTP-mediated inhibition of cross-linking, this H bond enhances the rate of formation of the inactive conformer.


Subject(s)
GTP-Binding Proteins/chemistry , GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Guanosine Triphosphate/chemistry , Guanosine Triphosphate/metabolism , Transglutaminases/chemistry , Transglutaminases/metabolism , Allosteric Regulation , Animals , Arginine/genetics , Arginine/metabolism , Binding Sites , Cysteine/genetics , Cysteine/metabolism , Disulfides/metabolism , GTP-Binding Proteins/genetics , Hydrogen Bonding , Models, Molecular , Mutation/genetics , Protein Binding , Protein Glutamine gamma Glutamyltransferase 2 , Protein Structure, Tertiary , Rats , Transglutaminases/genetics , Tyrosine/genetics , Tyrosine/metabolism , Water/chemistry
9.
Protein Sci ; 15(11): 2612-8, 2006 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17001033

ABSTRACT

The study of protein-protein interactions can be hampered by the instability of one or more of the protein complex components. In this study, we showed that intein-mediated cyclization can be used to engineer an artificial intramolecular cyclic protein complex between two interacting proteins: the largely unstable LIM-only protein 4 (LMO4) and an unstructured domain of LIM domain binding protein 1 (ldb1). The X-ray structure of the cyclic complex is identical to noncyclized versions of the complex. Chemical and thermal denaturation assays using intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence and dynamic light scattering were used to compare the relative stabilities of the cyclized complex, the intermolecular (or free) complex, and two linear versions of the intramolecular complex (in which the interacting domains of LMO4 and ldb1 were fused, via a flexible linker, in either orientation). In terms of resistance to denaturation, the cyclic complex is the most stable variant and the intermolecular complex is the least stable; however, the two linear intramolecular variants show significant differences in stability. These differences appear to be related to the relative contact order (the average distance in sequence between residues that make contacts within a structure) of key binding residues at the interface of the two proteins. Thus, the restriction of the more stable component of a complex may enhance stability to a greater extent than restraining less stable components.


Subject(s)
Cyclization , Inteins/physiology , Multiprotein Complexes/chemistry , Protein Denaturation/physiology , Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing , Crystallography, X-Ray , DNA-Binding Proteins/chemistry , Homeodomain Proteins/chemistry , LIM Domain Proteins , Models, Biological , Models, Molecular , Protein Binding , Protein Conformation , Protein Structure, Tertiary , Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry , Recombinant Fusion Proteins/isolation & purification , Transcription Factors/chemistry , Trypsin/metabolism
10.
J Biol Chem ; 281(18): 12603-9, 2006 May 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16522628

ABSTRACT

Transglutaminase type 2 (TG2; also known as G(h)) is a multifunctional protein involved in diverse cellular processes. It has two well characterized enzyme activities: receptor-stimulated signaling that requires GTP binding and calcium-activated transamidation or cross-linking that is inhibited by GTP. In addition to the GDP binding residues identified from the human TG2 crystal structure (Liu, S., Cerione, R. A., and Clardy, J. (2002) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 99, 2743-2747), we have previously implicated Ser171 in GTP binding, as binding is lost with glutamate substitution (Iismaa, S. E., Wu, M.-J., Nanda, N., Church, W. B., and Graham, R. M. (2000) J. Biol. Chem. 275, 18259-18265). Here, we have shown that alanine substitution of homologous residues in rat TG2 (Phe174 in the core domain or Arg476, Arg478, or Arg579 in barrel 1) does not affect TG activity but reduces or abolishes GTP binding and GTPgammaS inhibition of TG activity in vitro, indicating that these residues are important in GTP binding. Alanine substitution of Ser171 does not impair GTP binding, indicating this residue does not interact directly with GTP. Arg579 is particularly important for GTP binding, as isothermal titration calorimetry demonstrated a 100-fold reduction in GTP binding affinity by the R579A mutant. Unlike wild-type TG2 or its S171E or F174A mutants, which are sensitive to both trypsin and mu-calpain digestion, R579A is inherently more resistant to mu-calpain, but not trypsin, digestion, indicating reduced accessibility and/or flexibility of this mutant in the region of the calpain cleavage site(s). Basal TG activity of intact R579A stable SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cell transfectants was slightly increased relative to wild-type transfectants and, in contrast to the TG activity of the latter, was further stimulated by muscarinic receptor-activated calcium mobilization. Thus, loss of GTP binding sensitizes TG2 to intracellular calcium concentrations. These findings are consistent with the notion that intracellularly, under physiological conditions, TG2 is maintained largely as a latent enzyme, its calcium-activated cross-linking activity being suppressed allosterically by guanine nucleotide binding.


Subject(s)
Arginine/chemistry , GTP-Binding Proteins/chemistry , Guanosine Triphosphate/chemistry , Mutation , Transglutaminases/chemistry , Animals , Binding Sites , Calcium/chemistry , Calcium/metabolism , Cell Line, Tumor , Cross-Linking Reagents/pharmacology , GTP-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Humans , Models, Molecular , Protein Glutamine gamma Glutamyltransferase 2 , Protein Processing, Post-Translational , Rats , Serine/chemistry , Transglutaminases/metabolism , Trypsin/chemistry
11.
J Biol Chem ; 279(26): 26932-8, 2004 Jun 25.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15084581

ABSTRACT

CtIP is a transcriptional co-regulator that binds a number of proteins involved in cell cycle control and cell development, such as CtBP (C terminus-binding protein), BRCA1 (breast cancer-associated protein-1), and LMO4 (LIM-only protein-4). The only recognizable structural motifs within CtIP are two putative coiled-coil domains located near the N and C termini of the protein. We now show that the N-terminal coiled coil (residues 45-160), but not the C-terminal coiled coil, mediates homodimerization of CtIP in mammalian 293T cells. The N-terminal coiled coil did not facilitate binding to LMO4 and BRCA1 proteins in these cells. A protease-resistant domain (residues 27-168) that minimally encompasses the putative N-terminal coiled coil was identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. This region is predicted to contain two smaller coiled-coil regions. The CtIP-(45-160) dimerization domain is helical and dimeric, indicating that the domain does form a coiled coil. The two smaller domains, CtIP-(45-92) and CtIP-(93-160), also formed dimers of lower binding affinity, but with less helical content than the longer peptide. The hydrodynamic radius of CtIP-(45-160) is the same as those of CtIP-(45-92) and CtIP-(93-160), implying that CtIP-(45-160) does not form a single long coiled coil, but a more compact structure involving homodimerization of the two smaller coiled coils, which fold back as a four-helix bundle or other compact structure. These results suggest a specific model for CtIP homodimerization via its N terminus and contribute to an improved understanding of how this protein might assemble other factors required for its role as a transcriptional corepressor.


Subject(s)
BRCA1 Protein/metabolism , Carrier Proteins/metabolism , DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism , Nuclear Proteins/chemistry , Nuclear Proteins/metabolism , Phosphoproteins/metabolism , Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing , Alcohol Oxidoreductases , Amino Acid Motifs , Amino Acid Sequence , Cell Line , Chymotrypsin/metabolism , Circular Dichroism , Dimerization , Endodeoxyribonucleases , Escherichia coli/metabolism , Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism , Humans , LIM Domain Proteins , Models, Molecular , Molecular Sequence Data , Nuclear Proteins/genetics , Peptide Fragments/genetics , Protein Structure, Tertiary , Recombinant Proteins/chemistry , Recombinant Proteins/genetics , Recombinant Proteins/metabolism , Retinoblastoma Protein/metabolism , Transcription Factors/metabolism , Transfection , Trypsin/metabolism , Ultracentrifugation
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