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Multiple protein-protein interactions converging on the Prp38 protein during activation of the human spliceosome.


ABSTRACT: Spliceosomal Prp38 proteins contain a conserved amino-terminal domain, but only higher eukaryotic orthologs also harbor a carboxy-terminal RS domain, a hallmark of splicing regulatory SR proteins. We show by crystal structure analysis that the amino-terminal domain of human Prp38 is organized around three pairs of antiparallel ?-helices and lacks similarities to RNA-binding domains found in canonical SR proteins. Instead, yeast two-hybrid analyses suggest that the amino-terminal domain is a versatile protein-protein interaction hub that possibly binds 12 other spliceosomal proteins, most of which are recruited at the same stage as Prp38. By quantitative, alanine surface-scanning two-hybrid screens and biochemical analyses we delineated four distinct interfaces on the Prp38 amino-terminal domain. In vitro interaction assays using recombinant proteins showed that Prp38 can bind at least two proteins simultaneously via two different interfaces. Addition of excess Prp38 amino-terminal domain to in vitro splicing assays, but not of an interaction-deficient mutant, stalled splicing at a precatalytic stage. Our results show that human Prp38 is an unusual SR protein, whose amino-terminal domain is a multi-interface protein-protein interaction platform that might organize the relative positioning of other proteins during splicing.

SUBMITTER: Schutze T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4712676 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Multiple protein-protein interactions converging on the Prp38 protein during activation of the human spliceosome.

Schütze Tonio T   Ulrich Alexander K C AK   Apelt Luise L   Will Cindy L CL   Bartlick Natascha N   Seeger Martin M   Weber Gert G   Lührmann Reinhard R   Stelzl Ulrich U   Wahl Markus C MC  

RNA (New York, N.Y.) 20151216 2


Spliceosomal Prp38 proteins contain a conserved amino-terminal domain, but only higher eukaryotic orthologs also harbor a carboxy-terminal RS domain, a hallmark of splicing regulatory SR proteins. We show by crystal structure analysis that the amino-terminal domain of human Prp38 is organized around three pairs of antiparallel α-helices and lacks similarities to RNA-binding domains found in canonical SR proteins. Instead, yeast two-hybrid analyses suggest that the amino-terminal domain is a vers  ...[more]

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