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'''N-TERMINAL FRAGMENT OF IMPORTIN-BETA''' | '''N-TERMINAL FRAGMENT OF IMPORTIN-BETA''' | ||
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Revision as of 14:24, 2 May 2008
N-TERMINAL FRAGMENT OF IMPORTIN-BETA
Overview
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.
About this Structure
1GCJ is a Single protein structure of sequence from Mus musculus. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
The adoption of a twisted structure of importin-beta is essential for the protein-protein interaction required for nuclear transport., Lee SJ, Imamoto N, Sakai H, Nakagawa A, Kose S, Koike M, Yamamoto M, Kumasaka T, Yoneda Y, Tsukihara T, J Mol Biol. 2000 Sep 8;302(1):251-64. PMID:10964573 Page seeded by OCA on Fri May 2 17:24:54 2008
