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PDBsum entry 1gcj

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1gcj

 

 

 

 

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Protein chains
460 a.a. *
Waters ×211
* Residue conservation analysis
PDB id:
1gcj
Name: Transport protein
Title: N-terminal fragment of importin-beta
Structure: Importin beta. Chain: a, b. Fragment: n-terminal domain (1-449 residues). Engineered: yes. Mutation: yes
Source: Mus musculus. House mouse. Organism_taxid: 10090. Strain: c57bl6. Tissue: thymus. Expressed in: escherichia coli. Expression_system_taxid: 562.
Biol. unit: Dimer (from PQS)
Resolution:
2.60Å     R-factor:   0.215     R-free:   0.270
Authors: S.J.Lee,N.Imamoto,H.Sakai,A.Nakagawa,S.Kose,M.Koike,M.Yamamoto, T.Kumasaka,Y.Yoneda,T.Tsukihara
Key ref:
S.J.Lee et al. (2000). The adoption of a twisted structure of importin-beta is essential for the protein-protein interaction required for nuclear transport. J Mol Biol, 302, 251-264. PubMed id: 10964573 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4055
Date:
31-Jul-00     Release date:   18-Oct-00    
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Protein chains
P70168  (IMB1_MOUSE) -  Importin subunit beta-1 from Mus musculus
Seq:
Struc:
 
Seq:
Struc:
876 a.a.
460 a.a.*
Key:    Secondary structure  CATH domain
* PDB and UniProt seqs differ at 4 residue positions (black crosses)

 

 
DOI no: 10.1006/jmbi.2000.4055 J Mol Biol 302:251-264 (2000)
PubMed id: 10964573  
 
 
The adoption of a twisted structure of importin-beta is essential for the protein-protein interaction required for nuclear transport.
S.J.Lee, N.Imamoto, H.Sakai, A.Nakagawa, S.Kose, M.Koike, M.Yamamoto, T.Kumasaka, Y.Yoneda, T.Tsukihara.
 
  ABSTRACT  
 
Importin-beta is a nuclear transport factor which mediates the nuclear import of various nuclear proteins. The N-terminal 1-449 residue fragment of mouse importin-beta (impbeta449) possesses the ability to bidirectionally translocate through the nuclear pore complex (NPC), and to bind RanGTP. The structure of the uncomplexed form of impbeta449 has been solved at a 2.6 A resolution by X-ray crystallography. It consists of ten copies of the tandemly arrayed HEAT repeat and exhibits conformational flexibility which is involved in protein-protein interaction for nuclear transport. The overall conformation of the HEAT repeats shows that a twisted motion produces a significantly varied superhelical architecture from the previously reported structure of RanGTP-bound importin-beta. These conformational changes appear to be the sum of small conformational changes throughout the polypeptide. Such a flexibility, which resides in the stacked HEAT repeats, is essential for interaction with RanGTP or with NPCs. Furthermore, it was found that impbeta449 has a structural similarity with another nuclear migrating protein, namely beta-catenin, which is composed of another type of helix-repeated structure of ARM repeat. Interestingly, the essential regions for NPC translocation for both importin-beta and beta-catenin are spatially well overlapped with one another. This strongly indicates the importance of helix stacking of the HEAT or ARM repeats for NPC-passage.
 
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Figure 1.
Figure 1. Structure of impb449. (a) Stereo view of impb449 dimer in the asymmetric unit. The crystal structure of the impb449 molecules forms a dimer, which is composed of molecule I(pink) and II(green) in the asymmetric unit. Three interaction sites for dimer formation are depicted by the ball-and-stick model. The C-terminal area interaction is in purple, and the second and third interaction sites are in blue and red, respectively. (b) HEAT repeat helices in impb449. The convex side of helices of A1-A10 and the concave side of the helices of B1-B10 and 3[10] helices are colored in blue, red and light blue, respectively. C2 helix is colored in green. (c) Structural alignment of the ten HEAT repeats of impb449. The first amino acid residue of each repeat is indicated on the left. Each repeat contains helix A and B. The repeat 2 contains helix C. Underlined residues in repeats 3, 4, and 5 comprise 3[10] helices indicated in (b).
Figure 4.
Figure 4. Hypothetically constructed superhelix structures of three importin-bs. HEAT repeat helices from A3 to B9, stacked side-by-side, are superposed. The residues of amino acid residues 1-449 are used for the construction of the superhelix. One pitch of superhelix is comprised of 24 molecules (impb449), 23 molecules (impb/IBB) and 23 molecules (impb/Ran), respectively. Left, superhelix of impb449 (monomerI:uncomplexed form); middle, superhelix of impb/IBB (PDB code 1QGK:RanGTP uncomplexed form, but complexed with IBB in the C terminal half of full length of importin-b); right, superhelix of impb/Ran (PDB code 1IBR, chain B:RanGTP complexed form).
 
  The above figures are reprinted by permission from Elsevier: J Mol Biol (2000, 302, 251-264) copyright 2000.  
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PDB code: 3nd2
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15864299 R.Nevo, V.Brumfeld, R.Kapon, P.Hinterdorfer, and Z.Reich (2005).
Direct measurement of protein energy landscape roughness.
  EMBO Rep, 6, 482-486.  
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14729571 M.Oeffinger, M.Dlakic, and D.Tollervey (2004).
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  Cell, 112, 441-451.  
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A molecular switch between alternative conformational states in the complex of Ran and importin beta1.
  Nat Struct Biol, 10, 553-557.  
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Crystallization and preliminary crystallographic analysis of the importin-beta-SREBP-2 complex.
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  Science, 302, 1571-1575.
PDB code: 1ukl
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Trichromatic concept optimizes MAD experiments in synchrotron X-ray crystallography.
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Crystal structure of transcription factor MalT domain III: a novel helix repeat fold implicated in regulated oligomerization.
  Structure, 9, 1051-1060.
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Diversity in nucleocytoplasmic transport pathways.
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