7m5a | pdb_00007m5a
Crystal Structure of human BAK in complex with W3W5_BID
Structural highlights
FunctionBAK_HUMAN In the presence of an appropriate stimulus, accelerates programmed cell death by binding to, and antagonizing the anti-apoptotic action of BCL2 or its adenovirus homolog E1B 19k protein. Low micromolar levels of zinc ions inhibit the promotion of apoptosis.[1] [2] Publication Abstract from PubMedBCL-2 proteins regulate mitochondrial poration in apoptosis initiation. How the pore-forming BCL-2 Effector BAK is activated remains incompletely understood mechanistically. Here we investigate autoactivation and direct activation by BH3-only proteins, which cooperate to lower BAK threshold in membrane poration and apoptosis initiation. We define in trans BAK autoactivation as the asymmetric "BH3-in-groove" triggering of dormant BAK by active BAK. BAK autoactivation is mechanistically similar to direct activation. The structure of autoactivated BAK BH3-BAK complex reveals the conformational changes leading to helix alpha1 destabilization, which is a hallmark of BAK activation. Helix alpha1 is destabilized and restabilized in structures of BAK engaged by rationally designed, high-affinity activating and inactivating BID-like BH3 ligands, respectively. Altogether our data support the long-standing hit-and-run mechanism of BAK activation by transient binding of BH3-only proteins, demonstrating that BH3-induced structural changes are more important in BAK activation than BH3 ligand affinity. Structural basis of BAK activation in mitochondrial apoptosis initiation.,Singh G, Guibao CD, Seetharaman J, Aggarwal A, Grace CR, McNamara DE, Vaithiyalingam S, Waddell MB, Moldoveanu T Nat Commun. 2022 Jan 11;13(1):250. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-27851-y. PMID:35017502[3] From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See AlsoReferences
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