Crystal and solution structures reveal oligomerization of individual capsid homology domains of Drosophila Arc |
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Author: | Hallin, Erik I.1; Markússon, Sigurbjörn1; Böttger, Lev2; |
Organizations: |
1Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 2Centre for Bioinformatics (ZBH), University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 3KG Jebsen Centre for Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
4Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine & Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 4 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021070741239 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Public Library of Science,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-07-07 |
Description: |
AbstractSynaptic plasticity is vital for brain function and memory formation. One of the key proteins in long-term synaptic plasticity and memory is the activity-regulated cytoskeleton-associated protein (Arc). Mammalian Arc forms virus-like capsid structures in a process requiring the N-terminal domain and contains two C-terminal lobes that are structural homologues to retroviral capsids. Drosophila has two isoforms of Arc, dArc1 and dArc2, with low sequence similarity to mammalian Arc, but lacking a large N-terminal domain. Both dArc isoforms are related to the Ty3/gypsy retrotransposon capsid, consisting of N- and C-terminal lobes. Structures of dArc1, as well as capsids formed by both dArc isoforms, have been recently determined. We carried out structural characterization of the four individual dArc lobe domains. As opposed to the corresponding mammalian Arc lobe domains, which are monomeric, the dArc lobes were all oligomeric in solution, indicating a strong propensity for homophilic interactions. A truncated N-lobe from dArc2 formed a domain-swapped dimer in the crystal structure, resulting in a novel dimer interaction that could be relevant for capsid assembly or other dArc functions. This domain-swapped structure resembles the dimeric protein C of flavivirus capsids, as well as the structure of histones dimers, domain-swapped transcription factors, and membrane-interacting BAK domains. The strong oligomerization properties of the isolated dArc lobe domains explain the ability of dArc to form capsids in the absence of any large N-terminal domain, in contrast to the mammalian protein. see all
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Series: |
PLoS one |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
ISSN-E: | 1932-6203 |
ISSN-L: | 1932-6203 |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 5 |
Article number: | e0251459 |
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0251459 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251459 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
1182 Biochemistry, cell and molecular biology |
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Funding: |
The research leading to this result has been supported by the project CALIPSOplus under the Grant Agreement 730872, as well as by iNEXT, grant number 653706, from the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020. This work was supported by a Research Council of Norway TOPPFORSK grant (249951) to CRB, a Research Council of Norway INFRASTRUCTURE grant (245828), and a grant from the Meltzer Foundation to PK. |
EU Grant Number: |
(653706) iNEXT - Infrastructure for NMR, EM and X-rays for translational research |
Copyright information: |
© 2021 Hallin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |