UMMS Affiliation
Program in Molecular Medicine; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
2007-08-28
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Biochemistry | Cell Biology | Cellular and Molecular Physiology | Molecular Biology | Structural Biology
Abstract
Eukaryotic genomes encode a zinc finger protein (ZPR1) with tandem ZPR1 domains. In response to growth stimuli, ZPR1 assembles into complexes with eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1A (eEF1A) and the survival motor neurons protein. To gain insight into the structural mechanisms underlying the essential function of ZPR1 in diverse organisms, we determined the crystal structure of a ZPR1 domain tandem and characterized the interaction with eEF1A. The ZPR1 domain consists of an elongation initiation factor 2-like zinc finger and a double-stranded beta helix with a helical hairpin insertion. ZPR1 binds preferentially to GDP-bound eEF1A but does not directly influence the kinetics of nucleotide exchange or GTP hydrolysis. However, ZPR1 efficiently displaces the exchange factor eEF1Balpha from preformed nucleotide-free complexes, suggesting that it may function as a negative regulator of eEF1A activation. Structure-based mutational and complementation analyses reveal a conserved binding epitope for eEF1A that is required for normal cell growth, proliferation, and cell cycle progression. Structural differences between the ZPR1 domains contribute to the observed functional divergence and provide evidence for distinct modalities of interaction with eEF1A and survival motor neuron complexes.
Keywords
growth factor receptor, structure, neurodegeneration, spinal muscular atrophy, cell cycle
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DOI of Published Version
10.1073/pnas.0704915104
Source
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Aug 28;104(35):13930-5. Epub 2007 Aug 17. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Related Resources
PubMed ID
17704259
Repository Citation
Mishra, Ashwini K.; Gangwani, Laxman; Davis, Roger J.; and Lambright, David G., "Structural insights into the interaction of the evolutionarily conserved ZPR1 domain tandem with eukaryotic EF1A, receptors, and SMN complexes" (2007). Open Access Articles. 1356.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/1356
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