The structurally disordered KRAB repression domain is incorporated into a protease resistant core upon binding to KAP-1-RBCC domain

The KRAB domain is a 75 amino acid transcriptional repression module that is encoded by more than 400 zinc finger protein genes, making it the most abundant repression domain in the human proteome. KRAB-mediated gene silencing requires a direct high affinity interaction with the RBCC domain of KAP-1 co-repressor. The structures of the free KRAB domain or the KRAB-RBCC complex are unknown. To address this, we have performed a systematic biophysical analysis of all KRAB isoforms using purified recombinant proteins. All KRAB domains are predominantly monomeric either alone or in a complex with KAP-1-RBCC protein, while a KRAB-SCAN isoform exists as a stable dimer. The KRAB:KAP-1-RBCC interaction requires only the A box in the context of the KRAB(Ab) or KRAB(AC) but both A and B boxes in the context of KRAB(AB). All isoforms bind the KAP-1-RBCC in a stable, zinc dependent fashion with a stoichiometry of KRAB1:3 RBCC with a zinc content of four atoms per RBCC monomer. Limited proteolysis, mass spectrometry and N-terminal sequence analyses suggest that a core complex comprises the entire RBCC domain of KAP-1 and the AB box of the KRAB domain rendering it resistant to proteolysis. NMR spectroscopy showed that unbound KRAB domain does not exist as a well-folded globular protein in solution but may fold into an ordered structure upon binding to the KAP-1-RBCC protein. This is the first example of a structurally disordered repressor domain that is the most widely conserved silencing domain in tetrapods.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2007

Erschienen:

2007

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:370

Enthalten in:

Journal of molecular biology - 370(2007), 2 vom: 06. Juli, Seite 269-89

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Peng, Hongzhuang [VerfasserIn]
Gibson, Lisa C [VerfasserIn]
Capili, Allan D [VerfasserIn]
Borden, Katherine L B [VerfasserIn]
Osborne, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Harper, Sandra L [VerfasserIn]
Speicher, David W [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Kehao [VerfasserIn]
Marmorstein, Ronen [VerfasserIn]
Rock, Thomas A [VerfasserIn]
Rauscher, Frank J [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

DNA-Binding Proteins
EC 2.3.2.27
Journal Article
Recombinant Proteins
Repressor Proteins
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
TRIM28 protein, human
Tripartite Motif-Containing Protein 28

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Date Completed 26.07.2007

Date Revised 16.11.2017

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM170383431