2kdt is a 1 chain structure with sequence from Lk3 transgenic mice. Full experimental information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
[NEC1_MOUSE] Involved in the processing of hormone and other protein precursors at sites comprised of pairs of basic amino acid residues. Substrates include POMC, renin, enkephalin, dynorphin, somatostatin and insulin.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Several peptide hormones are initially synthesized as inactive precursors. It is only on entry of these prohormones and their processing proteases into dense core secretory granules (DCSGs) that the precursors are cleaved to generate their active forms. Prohormone convertase (PC)1/3 is a processing protease that is targeted to DCSGs. The signal for targeting PC1/3 to DCSGs resides in its carboxy-terminal tail (PC1/3(617-753)), where 3 regions (PC1/3(617-625), PC1/3(665-682), and PC1/3(711-753)) are known to aid in sorting and membrane association. In this article, we have determined a high-resolution structure of the extreme carboxy-terminal sorting domain, PC1/3(711-753) in micelles by NMR spectroscopy. PC1/3(711-753) contains 2 alpha helices located between residues 722-728 and 738-750. Functional assays demonstrate that the second helix (PC1/3(738-750)) is necessary and sufficient to target a constitutively secreted protein to granules, and that L(745) anchors a hydrophobic patch that is critical for sorting. Also, we demonstrate that calcium binding by the second helix of PC1/3(711-753) promotes aggregation of the domain via the hydrophobic patch centered on L(745). These results provide a structure-function analysis of a DCSG-sorting domain, and reveal the importance of a hydrophobic patch and calcium binding in controlling the sorting of proteins containing alpha helices to DCSGs.
Functional and structural characterization of a dense core secretory granule sorting domain from the PC1/3 protease.,Dikeakos JD, Di Lello P, Lacombe MJ, Ghirlando R, Legault P, Reudelhuber TL, Omichinski JG Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 May 5;106(18):7408-13. Epub 2009 Apr 17. PMID:19376969[1]
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References
↑Dikeakos JD, Di Lello P, Lacombe MJ, Ghirlando R, Legault P, Reudelhuber TL, Omichinski JG. Functional and structural characterization of a dense core secretory granule sorting domain from the PC1/3 protease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 May 5;106(18):7408-13. Epub 2009 Apr 17. PMID:19376969
