2rnr

From Proteopedia

Solution structure of the complex between TFIIE alpha C-terminal acidic domain and TFIIH p62 PH domain

Structural highlights

2rnr is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:	Solution NMR
Resources:	FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

T2EA_HUMAN Recruits TFIIH to the initiation complex and stimulates the RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain kinase and DNA-dependent ATPase activities of TFIIH. Both TFIIH and TFIIE are required for promoter clearance by RNA polymerase.

Evolutionary Conservation

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

Publication Abstract from PubMed

RNA polymerase II and general transcription factors (GTFs) assemble on a promoter to form a transcription preinitiation complex (PIC). Among the GTFs, TFIIE recruits TFIIH to complete the PIC formation and regulates enzymatic activities of TFIIH. However, the mode of binding between TFIIE and TFIIH is poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate the specific binding of the C-terminal acidic domain (AC-D) of the human TFIIEalpha subunit to the pleckstrin homology domain (PH-D) of the human TFIIH p62 subunit and describe the solution structures of the free and PH-D-bound forms of AC-D. Although the flexible N-terminal acidic tail from AC-D wraps around PH-D, the core domain of AC-D also interacts with PH-D. AC-D employs an entirely novel binding mode, which differs from the amphipathic helix method used by many transcriptional activators. So the binding surface between PH-D and AC-D is much broader than the specific binding surface between PH-D and the p53 acidic fragments. From our in vitro studies, we demonstrate that this interaction could be a switch to replace p53 with TFIIE on TFIIH in transcription.

Structural insight into the TFIIE-TFIIH interaction: TFIIE and p53 share the binding region on TFIIH.,Okuda M, Tanaka A, Satoh M, Mizuta S, Takazawa M, Ohkuma Y, Nishimura Y EMBO J. 2008 Apr 9;27(7):1161-71. Epub 2008 Mar 20. PMID:18354501^[1]

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

References

↑ Okuda M, Tanaka A, Satoh M, Mizuta S, Takazawa M, Ohkuma Y, Nishimura Y. Structural insight into the TFIIE-TFIIH interaction: TFIIE and p53 share the binding region on TFIIH. EMBO J. 2008 Apr 9;27(7):1161-71. Epub 2008 Mar 20. PMID:18354501 doi:10.1038/emboj.2008.47