2a5y | pdb_00002a5y

Structure of a CED-4/CED-9 complex

spinqualitylabelsall models 2a5y, resolution 2.60Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2a5y is a 3 chain structure with sequence from Caenorhabditis elegans. The September 2014 RCSB PDB Molecule of the Month feature on Apoptosomes by David Goodsell is 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2014_9. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: ATP, MG Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, RCSB, PDBsum 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 Interplay among four genes--egl-1, ced-9, ced-4 and ced-3--controls the onset of programmed cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Activation of the cell-killing protease CED-3 requires CED-4. However, CED-4 is constitutively inhibited by CED-9 until its release by EGL-1. Here we report the crystal structure of the CED-4-CED-9 complex at 2.6 A resolution, and a complete reconstitution of the CED-3 activation pathway using homogeneous proteins of CED-4, CED-9 and EGL-1. One molecule of CED-9 binds to an asymmetric dimer of CED-4, but specifically recognizes only one of the two CED-4 molecules. This specific interaction prevents CED-4 from activating CED-3. EGL-1 binding induces pronounced conformational changes in CED-9 that result in the dissociation of the CED-4 dimer from CED-9. The released CED-4 dimer further dimerizes to form a tetramer, which facilitates the autoactivation of CED-3. Together, our studies provide important insights into the regulation of cell death activation in C. elegans. Structure of the CED-4-CED-9 complex provides insights into programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans.,Yan N, Chai J, Lee ES, Gu L, Liu Q, He J, Wu JW, Kokel D, Li H, Hao Q, Xue D, Shi Y Nature. 2005 Oct 6;437(7060):831-7. PMID:16208361 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also Cell death protein

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