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PDBsum entry 1nwq

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protein dna_rna Protein-protein interface(s) links
Transcription/DNA PDB id
1nwq

 

 

 

 

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Protein chains
60 a.a. *
DNA/RNA
Waters ×34
* Residue conservation analysis
PDB id:
1nwq
Name: Transcription/DNA
Title: Crystal structure of c/ebpalpha-DNA complex
Structure: 5'-d( Tp Tp Cp Cp Tp Ap Tp Tp Gp Cp Gp Cp Ap Ap Tp Cp Cp Ap Gp Tp T)-3'. Chain: b. Engineered: yes. 5'-d( Ap Ap Ap Cp Tp Gp Gp Ap Tp Tp Gp Cp Gp Cp Ap Ap Tp Ap Gp Gp A)-3'. Chain: d. Engineered: yes. Ccaat/enhancer binding protein alpha.
Source: Synthetic: yes. Rattus norvegicus. Norway rat. Organism_taxid: 10116. Gene: cebpa. Expressed in: escherichia coli. Expression_system_taxid: 562.
Biol. unit: Tetramer (from PQS)
Resolution:
2.80Å     R-factor:   0.221     R-free:   0.275
Authors: M.Miller,J.D.Shuman,T.Sebastian,Z.Dauter,P.F.Johnson
Key ref:
M.Miller et al. (2003). Structural basis for DNA recognition by the basic region leucine zipper transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha. J Biol Chem, 278, 15178-15184. PubMed id: 12578822 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M300417200
Date:
06-Feb-03     Release date:   13-May-03    
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Protein chains
Pfam   ArchSchema ?
P05554  (CEBPA_RAT) -  CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha from Rattus norvegicus
Seq:
Struc:
358 a.a.
60 a.a.
Key:    PfamA domain  Secondary structure  CATH domain

DNA/RNA chains
  T-T-C-C-T-A-T-T-G-C-G-C-A-A-T-C-C-A-G-T-T 21 bases
  A-A-A-C-T-G-G-A-T-T-G-C-G-C-A-A-T-A-G-G-A 21 bases

 

 
DOI no: 10.1074/jbc.M300417200 J Biol Chem 278:15178-15184 (2003)
PubMed id: 12578822  
 
 
Structural basis for DNA recognition by the basic region leucine zipper transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein alpha.
M.Miller, J.D.Shuman, T.Sebastian, Z.Dauter, P.F.Johnson.
 
  ABSTRACT  
 
CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins (C/EBPs) are basic region leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors that regulate cell differentiation, growth, survival, and inflammation. To understand the molecular basis of DNA recognition by the C/EBP family we determined the x-ray structure of a C/EBPalpha bZIP polypeptide bound to its cognate DNA site (A(-5)T(-4)T(-3)G(-2)C(-1)G(1)C(2)A(3)A(4)T(5)) and characterized several basic region mutants. Binding specificity is provided by interactions of basic region residues Arg(289), Asn(292), Ala(295), Val(296), Ser(299), and Arg(300) with DNA bases. A striking feature of the C/EBPalpha protein-DNA interface that distinguishes it from known bZIP-DNA complexes is the central role of Arg(289), which is hydrogen-bonded to base A(3), phosphate, Asn(292) (invariant in bZIPs), and Asn(293). The conformation of Arg(289) is also restricted by Tyr(285). In accordance with the structural model, mutation of Arg(289) or a pair of its interacting partners (Tyr(285) and Asn(293)) abolished C/EBPalpha binding activity. Val(296) (Ala in most other bZIPs) contributes to C/EBPalpha specificity by discriminating against purines at position -3 and imposing steric restraints on the invariant Arg(300). Mutating Val(296) to Ala strongly enhanced C/EBPalpha binding to cAMP response element (CRE) sites while retaining affinity for C/EBP sites. Thus, Arg(289) is essential for formation of the complementary protein-DNA interface, whereas Val(296) functions primarily to restrict interactions with related sequences such as CRE sites rather than specifying binding to C/EBP sites. Our studies also help to explain the phenotypes of mice carrying targeted mutations in the C/EBPalpha bZIP region.
 
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Figure 4.
Fig. 4. Architecture of the protein surface complementary to the cognate DNA. A, critical interactions in the C/EBP protein-DNA interface. Protein side chains are represented as sticks and DNA as balls-and-sticks. Selected electrostatic and van der Waals interactions are depicted as dashed and dotted lines, respectively. B, comparison of conformations of the conserved side chains in the basic regions of C/EBP (green) and GCN4 (gray). The side chain of the invariant Asn residue from the PAP1 structure is shown in yellow.
Figure 5.
Fig. 5. Details of the C/EBP protein-DNA interface. A, hydrophobic cluster involving two thymine moieties from the C/EBP site and side chains of Val296 and Arg300. B, interactions defining possible conformation of Arg300. The side chain of the homologous Arg residue from GCN4 (one observed conformation) is shown in gray. C, comparison of the protein environment of base 2 in C/EBP (green) and GCN4 (gray) complexes. Hydrophobic interaction of the methyl group from T2 and Ala occurring in GCN4 is marked by a dotted line. Note that C^2 in the C/EBP site does not interact with Val296, and its position is displaced relative to T2 from the GCN4-CREB complex. D, electron density (2F[o] F[c]) contoured at 1.0 (gray) and 1.8 (green; DNA only) is shown for important residues, with the coordinates superimposed.
 
  The above figures are reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2003, 278, 15178-15184) copyright 2003.  
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Literature references that cite this PDB file's key reference

  PubMed id Reference
21346255 I.Paz-Priel, S.Houng, J.Dooher, and A.D.Friedman (2011).
C/EBPα and C/EBPα oncoproteins regulate nfkb1 and displace histone deacetylases from NF-κB p50 homodimers to induce NF-κB target genes.
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CCAAT/enhancer binding protein delta (C/EBPdelta, CEBPD)-mediated nuclear import of FANCD2 by IPO4 augments cellular response to DNA damage.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107, 16131-16136.  
20086039 J.Xu, A.T.De Jong, G.Chen, H.K.Chow, C.O.Damaso, A.Schwartz Mittelman, and J.A.Shin (2010).
Reengineering natural design by rational design and in vivo library selection: the HLH subdomain in bHLHZ proteins is a unique requirement for DNA-binding function.
  Protein Eng Des Sel, 23, 337-346.  
20686566 K.Musunuru, A.Strong, M.Frank-Kamenetsky, N.E.Lee, T.Ahfeldt, K.V.Sachs, X.Li, H.Li, N.Kuperwasser, V.M.Ruda, J.P.Pirruccello, B.Muchmore, L.Prokunina-Olsson, J.L.Hall, E.E.Schadt, C.R.Morales, S.Lund-Katz, M.C.Phillips, J.Wong, W.Cantley, T.Racie, K.G.Ejebe, M.Orho-Melander, O.Melander, V.Koteliansky, K.Fitzgerald, R.M.Krauss, C.A.Cowan, S.Kathiresan, and D.J.Rader (2010).
From noncoding variant to phenotype via SORT1 at the 1p13 cholesterol locus.
  Nature, 466, 714-719.  
20422469 K.Reckzeh, and J.Cammenga (2010).
Molecular mechanisms underlying deregulation of C/EBPalpha in acute myeloid leukemia.
  Int J Hematol, 91, 557-568.  
20048163 K.Tsuchimochi, M.Otero, C.L.Dragomir, D.A.Plumb, L.F.Zerbini, T.A.Libermann, K.B.Marcu, S.Komiya, K.Ijiri, and M.B.Goldring (2010).
GADD45beta enhances Col10a1 transcription via the MTK1/MKK3/6/p38 axis and activation of C/EBPbeta-TAD4 in terminally differentiating chondrocytes.
  J Biol Chem, 285, 8395-8407.  
20176812 K.Zaragoza, V.Bégay, A.Schuetz, U.Heinemann, and A.Leutz (2010).
Repression of transcriptional activity of C/EBPalpha by E2F-dimerization partner complexes.
  Mol Cell Biol, 30, 2293-2304.  
20439707 S.A.Pawar, T.R.Sarkar, K.Balamurugan, S.Sharan, J.Wang, Y.Zhang, S.F.Dowdy, A.M.Huang, and E.Sterneck (2010).
C/EBP{delta} targets cyclin D1 for proteasome-mediated degradation via induction of CDC27/APC3 expression.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 107, 9210-9215.  
20457642 Y.Galon, A.Finkler, and H.Fromm (2010).
Calcium-regulated transcription in plants.
  Mol Plant, 3, 653-669.  
19519454 M.Miller (2009).
The importance of being flexible: the case of basic region leucine zipper transcriptional regulators.
  Curr Protein Pept Sci, 10, 244-269.  
19618297 N.C.Liu, W.J.Lin, I.C.Yu, H.Y.Lin, S.Liu, Y.F.Lee, and C.Chang (2009).
Activation of TR4 orphan nuclear receptor gene promoter by cAMP/PKA and C/EBP signaling.
  Endocrine, 36, 211-217.  
19075268 S.Koschmieder, B.Halmos, E.Levantini, and D.G.Tenen (2009).
Dysregulation of the C/EBPalpha differentiation pathway in human cancer.
  J Clin Oncol, 27, 619-628.  
19088121 T.M.Alleyne, L.Peña-Castillo, G.Badis, S.Talukder, M.F.Berger, A.R.Gehrke, A.A.Philippakis, M.L.Bulyk, Q.D.Morris, and T.R.Hughes (2009).
Predicting the binding preference of transcription factors to individual DNA k-mers.
  Bioinformatics, 25, 1012-1018.  
18621876 T.V.Cohen, K.D.Klarmann, K.Sakchaisri, J.P.Cooper, D.Kuhns, M.Anver, P.F.Johnson, S.C.Williams, J.R.Keller, and C.L.Stewart (2008).
The lamin B receptor under transcriptional control of C/EBPepsilon is required for morphological but not functional maturation of neutrophils.
  Hum Mol Genet, 17, 2921-2933.  
18032797 Z.Balazs, R.A.Schweizer, F.J.Frey, F.Rohner-Jeanrenaud, and A.Odermatt (2008).
DHEA induces 11 -HSD2 by acting on CCAAT/enhancer-binding proteins.
  J Am Soc Nephrol, 19, 92.  
17934488 A.D.Friedman (2007).
Transcriptional control of granulocyte and monocyte development.
  Oncogene, 26, 6816-6828.  
17244686 A.Khanna-Gupta, H.Sun, T.Zibello, H.M.Lee, R.Dahl, L.A.Boxer, and N.Berliner (2007).
Growth factor independence-1 (Gfi-1) plays a role in mediating specific granule deficiency (SGD) in a patient lacking a gene-inactivating mutation in the C/EBPepsilon gene.
  Blood, 109, 4181-4190.  
16674813 G.D.Amoutzias, E.Bornberg-Bauer, S.G.Oliver, and D.L.Robertson (2006).
Reduction/oxidation-phosphorylation control of DNA binding in the bZIP dimerization network.
  BMC Genomics, 7, 107.  
16616425 M.B.Schuster, and B.T.Porse (2006).
C/EBPalpha: a tumour suppressor in multiple tissues?
  Biochim Biophys Acta, 1766, 88.  
16980607 P.Hatzis, I.Kyrmizi, and I.Talianidis (2006).
Mitogen-activated protein kinase-mediated disruption of enhancer-promoter communication inhibits hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha expression.
  Mol Cell Biol, 26, 7017-7029.  
16788101 Y.J.Lee, L.C.Jones, N.A.Timchenko, D.Perrotti, D.G.Tenen, and S.C.Kogan (2006).
CCAAT/enhancer binding proteins alpha and epsilon cooperate with all-trans retinoic acid in therapy but differ in their antileukemic activities.
  Blood, 108, 2416-2419.  
16199870 F.Li, D.A.Parry, and M.J.Scott (2005).
The amino-terminal region of Drosophila MSL1 contains basic, glycine-rich, and leucine zipper-like motifs that promote X chromosome binding, self-association, and MSL2 binding, respectively.
  Mol Cell Biol, 25, 8913-8924.  
16149046 J.Al Sarraj, C.Vinson, J.Han, and G.Thiel (2005).
Regulation of GTP cyclohydrolase I gene transcription by basic region leucine zipper transcription factors.
  J Cell Biochem, 96, 1003-1020.  
15107404 G.L.Wang, P.Iakova, M.Wilde, S.Awad, and N.A.Timchenko (2004).
Liver tumors escape negative control of proliferation via PI3K/Akt-mediated block of C/EBP alpha growth inhibitory activity.
  Genes Dev, 18, 912-925.  
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