Mechanism of conditional partner selectivity in MITF/TFE family transcription factors with a conserved coiled coil stammer motif.
Nucleic Acids Res
; 48(2): 934-948, 2020 01 24.
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ABSTRACT
Interrupted dimeric coiled coil segments are found in a broad range of proteins and generally confer selective functional properties such as binding to specific ligands. However, there is only one documented case of a basic-helix-loop-helix leucine zipper transcription factor-microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF)-in which an insertion of a three-residue stammer serves as a determinant of conditional partner selectivity. To unravel the molecular principles of this selectivity, we have analyzed the high-resolution structures of stammer-containing MITF and an engineered stammer-less MITF variant, which comprises an uninterrupted symmetric coiled coil. Despite this fundamental difference, both MITF structures reveal identical flanking in-phase coiled coil arrangements, gained by helical over-winding and local asymmetry in wild-type MITF across the stammer region. These conserved structural properties allow the maintenance of a proper functional readout in terms of nuclear localization and binding to specific DNA-response motifs regardless of the presence of the stammer. By contrast, MITF heterodimer formation with other bHLH-Zip transcription factors is only permissive when both factors contain either the same type of inserted stammer or no insert. Our data illustrate a unique principle of conditional partner selectivity within the wide arsenal of transcription factors with specific partner-dependent functional readouts.
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Conformación Proteica
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Núcleo Celular
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Factores de Transcripción Básicos con Cremalleras de Leucinas y Motivos Hélice-Asa-Hélice
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Factor de Transcripción Asociado a Microftalmía
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Animals
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En
Revista:
Nucleic Acids Res
Año:
2020
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Article
País de afiliación:
Alemania