Molecular basis for substrate recruitment to the PRMT5 methylosome
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ABSTRACT: PRMT5 is an essential arginine methyltransferase and a therapeutic target in MTAP null cancers. PRMT5 utilizes adaptor proteins for substrate recruitment through a previously undefined mechanism. Here, we identify an evolutionarily conserved peptide sequence shared among the three known substrate adaptors (CLNS1A, RIOK1 and COPR5) and show it is necessary and sufficient for interaction with PRMT5. We demonstrate that PRMT5 uses modular adaptor proteins containing a common binding motif for substrate recruitment, comparable to other enzyme classes such as kinases and E3 ligases. We structurally resolve the interface with PRMT5 and show via genetic perturbation that it is required for methylation of adaptor-recruited substrates including the spliceosome, histones, and ribosome assembly complexes. Further, disruption of this site affects Sm spliceosome stability and activity, leading to intron retention. Genetic disruption of the PRMT5-substrate adaptor interface leads to a hypomorphic decrease in growth of MTAP null tumor cells in vitro and in vivo, and is thus a novel site for development of therapeutic inhibitors of PRMT5.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE177036 | GEO | 2021/06/12
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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