Abstract
GW182-family proteins are essential for microRNA-mediated translational repression and deadenylation in animal cells. Here we show that a conserved motif in the human GW182 paralog TNRC6C interacts with the C-terminal domain of polyadenylate binding protein 1 (PABC) and present the crystal structure of the complex. Mutations at the complex interface impair mRNA deadenylation in mammalian cell extracts, suggesting that the GW182-PABC interaction contributes to microRNA-mediated gene silencing.
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We thank D. King (Howard Hughes Medical Institute Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Univ. California Berkeley) for peptide synthesis and mass spectrometry, and C. Ralston and J. Holton (Beamlines 8.2.1 and 8.3.1, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) for assistance with X-ray data collection. We are indebted to W. Filipowicz for discussions and to members of the Doudna laboratory for critical reading of the manuscript. M.J. is supported by a Human Frontiers Science Program fellowship. M.R.F. is supported by a Terry Fox Foundation fellowship from the Canadian Cancer Society. This work was funded in part by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research grant to N.S. N.S. is an International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. J.A.D. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
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M.J., M.R.F., N.S. and J.A.D. designed experiments. M.J. performed binding assays, crystallized the TNRC6C–PABC complex and determined its structure. M.R.F. performed in vitro deadenylation assays. S.M.C. assisted with X-ray data collection and structure determination. M.J. and J.A.D. wrote the manuscript.
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Jinek, M., Fabian, M., Coyle, S. et al. Structural insights into the human GW182-PABC interaction in microRNA-mediated deadenylation. Nat Struct Mol Biol 17, 238–240 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.1768
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