The Arthropoda-specific Tramtrack group BTB protein domains use previously unknown interface to form hexamers
- Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Abstract
BTB (Bric-a-brack, Tramtrack and Broad Complex) is a diverse group of protein-protein interaction domains found within metazoan proteins. Transcription factors contain a dimerizing BTB subtype with a characteristic N-terminal extension. The Tramtrack group (TTK) is a distinct type of BTB domain, which can multimerize. Single-particle cryo-EM microscopy revealed that the TTK-type BTB domains assemble into a hexameric structure consisting of three canonical BTB dimers connected through a previously uncharacterized interface. We demonstrated that the TTK-type BTB domains are found only in Arthropods and have undergone lineage-specific expansion in modern insects. The Drosophila genome encodes 24 transcription factors with TTK-type BTB domains, whereas only four have non‑TTK‑type BTB domains. Yeast two-hybrid analysis revealed that the TTK-type BTB domains have an unusually broad potential for heteromeric associations presumably through dimer-dimer interaction interface. Thus, the TTK-type BTB domains are a structurally and functionally distinct group of protein domains specific to Arthropodan transcription factors.
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The cryo-EM maps (blushed-regularized and normal regularization) and PDB model files have been deposited in the Protein Data Bank under the PDB entry code 8RC6 and in the EMDB with entry code EMD-19049. SAXS data have been deposited in the Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank (www.sasbdb.org) under accession codes SASDP59 (merged data for LOLA1-120 at 1.0 mg/ml and 3.0 mg/ml), SASDP49 (CG67651-133 at 1.5 mg/ml). Atomic models (both native and exactly corresponding to expression constructs) and reports of SAXS approximation are provided as Supplemental files. Results of bioinformatic analysis are provided as Supplemental tables.
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Konstantin I Balagurov
Konstantin M Boyko
Nikolai N Sluchanko
Funding
Russian Science Foundation (19-74-10099-P)
- Artem N Bonchuk
- Konstantin I Balagurov
- Konstantin M Boyko
- Anna D Burtseva
Russian Science Foundation (19-74-30026-Р)
- Artem N Bonchuk
- Konstantin I Balagurov
- Anastasia M Khrustaleva
- Olga V Arkova
- Karina K Khalisova
- Pavel G Georgiev
Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (075-15-2019-1661)
- Artem N Bonchuk
- Konstantin I Balagurov
- Olga V Arkova
KAUST Baseline Grant (BAS/1/1107-01-01)
- Rozbeh Baradaran
- Andreas Naschberger
This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation - project 19-74-10099-P to A.B. (expression and purification of proteins and their mutants), project 19-74-30026-Р to P.G. (analysis of protein-protein interactions) and by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation - grant 075-15-2019-1661 (structural and bioinformatic analysis). Funding for open access charge: Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation and Russian Science Foundation. The single-particle cryo-EM work was financially supported by the KAUST Baseline Grant BAS/1/1107-01-01. N.N.S. and K.M.B. acknowledges that SEC-MALS work was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.
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© 2024, Bonchuk et al.
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The Arthropoda-specific Tramtrack group BTB protein domains use previously unknown interface to form hexamers
eLife 13:e96832.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.96832
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