Structural highlights
Function
VATA_YEAST Catalytic subunit of the peripheral V1 complex of vacuolar ATPase. V-ATPase (vacuolar ATPase) is responsible for acidifying a variety of intracellular compartments in eukaryotic cells. It is an electrogenic proton pump that generates a proton motive force of 180 mV, inside positive and acidic, in the vacuolar membrane vesicles. It may participate in maintenance of cytoplasmic Ca(2+) homeostasis. This is a catalytic subunit.[1] PI-SceI is an endonuclease that can cleave at a site present in a VMA1 allele that lacks the derived endonuclease segment of the open reading frame; cleavage at this site only occurs during meiosis and initiates "homing", a genetic event that converts a VMA1 allele lacking VDE into one that contains it.[2]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The homing endonuclease PI-SceI from Saccharo myces cerevisiae consists of two domains. The protein splicing domain I catalyzes the excision of the mature endonuclease (intein) from a precursor protein and the religation of the flanking amino acid sequences (exteins) to a functional protein. Furthermore, domain I is involved in binding and recognition of the specific DNA substrate. Domain II of PI-SceI, the endonuclease domain, which is structurally homologous to other homing endonucleases from the LAGLIDADG family, harbors the endonucleolytic center of PI-SceI, which in vivo initiates the homing process by introducing a double-strand cut in the approximately 35 bp recognition sequence. At 1.35 A resolution, the crystal structure of PI-SceI domain I provides a detailed view of the part of the protein that is responsible for tight and specific DNA binding. A geometry-based docking of the 75 degrees bent recognition sequence to the full-length protein implies a conformational change or hinge movement of a subdomain of domain I, the tongs part, that is predicted to reach into the major groove near base pairs +16 to +18.
High resolution crystal structure of domain I of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homing endonuclease PI-SceI.,Werner E, Wende W, Pingoud A, Heinemann U Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Sep 15;30(18):3962-71. PMID:12235380[3]
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See Also
References
- ↑ Gimble FS, Thorner J. Homing of a DNA endonuclease gene by meiotic gene conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature. 1992 May 28;357(6376):301-6. PMID:1534148 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/357301a0
- ↑ Gimble FS, Thorner J. Homing of a DNA endonuclease gene by meiotic gene conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature. 1992 May 28;357(6376):301-6. PMID:1534148 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/357301a0
- ↑ Werner E, Wende W, Pingoud A, Heinemann U. High resolution crystal structure of domain I of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae homing endonuclease PI-SceI. Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 Sep 15;30(18):3962-71. PMID:12235380
