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Deposition Date 2014-06-20
Release Date 2015-05-06
Last Version Date 2024-05-15
Entry Detail
PDB ID:
2MQH
Title:
Solution structure of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii NAB1 cold shock domain, CSD1
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Conformers Calculated:
200
Conformers Submitted:
20
Selection Criteria:
structures with the lowest energy
Macromolecular Entities
Polymer Type:polypeptide(L)
Molecule:Nucleic acid binding protein
Gene (Uniprot):Nab1
Chain IDs:A
Chain Length:82
Number of Molecules:1
Biological Source:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Ligand Molecules
Primary Citation
Solution structure of the RNA-binding cold-shock domain of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii NAB1 protein and insights into RNA recognition.
Biochem.J. 469 97 106 (2015)
PMID: 25919092 DOI: 10.1042/BJ20150217

Abstact

Light-harvesting complex (LHC) proteins are among the most abundant proteins on Earth and play critical roles in photosynthesis, both in light capture and in photoprotective mechanisms. The Chlamydomonas reinhardtii nucleic acid-binding protein 1 (NAB1) is a negative regulator of LHC protein translation. Its N-terminal cold-shock domain (CSD) binds to a 13-nt element [CSD consensus sequence (CSDCS)] found in the mRNA of specific LHC proteins associated with Photosystem II (PSII), an interaction which regulates LHC expression and, consequently, PSII-associated antenna size, structure and function. In the present study, we elucidated the solution structure of the NAB1 CSD as determined by heteronuclear NMR. The CSD adopts a characteristic five-stranded anti parallel β-barrel fold. Upon addition of CSDCS RNA, a large number of NMR chemical shift perturbations were observed, corresponding primarily to surface-exposed residues within the highly conserved β2- and β3-strands in the canonical RNA-binding region, but also to residues on β-strand 5 extending the positive surface patch and the overall RNA-binding site. Additional chemical shift perturbations that accompanied RNA binding involved buried residues, suggesting that transcript recognition is accompanied by conformational change. Our results indicate that NAB1 associates with RNA transcripts through a mechanism involving its CSD that is conserved with mechanisms of sequence-specific nucleic acid recognition employed by ancestrally related bacterial cold-shock proteins (CSPs).

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