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ArticleScience advances2017

A D53 repression motif induces oligomerization of TOPLESS corepressors and promotes assembly of a corepressor-nucleosome complex.

Honglei Ma, Jingbo Duan, Jiyuan Ke, Yuanzheng He, Xin Gu, Ting-Hai Xu, Hong Yu, Yonghong Wang, Joseph S Brunzelle, Yi Jiang and 4 more

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14 authors.

Honglei MaKey Laboratory of Receptor Research, VARI-SIMM Center, Center for Structure and Function of Drug Targets, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People's Republic of China.
Jingbo DuanState Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China.
Jiyuan KeCenter of Cancer and Cell Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, 333 Bostwick Avenue Northeast, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2415-2696
Yuanzheng HeCenter of Cancer and Cell Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, 333 Bostwick Avenue Northeast, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.
Xin GuCenter of Cancer and Cell Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, 333 Bostwick Avenue Northeast, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.
Ting-Hai XuKey Laboratory of Receptor Research, VARI-SIMM Center, Center for Structure and Function of Drug Targets, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0003-2239-1420
Hong YuState Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-1748-8693
Yonghong WangState Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China.
Joseph S BrunzelleDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team, Synchrotron Research Center, Northwestern University, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
Yi JiangKey Laboratory of Receptor Research, VARI-SIMM Center, Center for Structure and Function of Drug Targets, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People's Republic of China.
Scott B RothbartCenter for Epigenetics, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.
H Eric XuKey Laboratory of Receptor Research, VARI-SIMM Center, Center for Structure and Function of Drug Targets, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, People's Republic of China.
Jiayang LiState Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics and National Center for Plant Gene Research (Beijing), Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-0487-6574
Karsten MelcherCenter of Cancer and Cell Biology, Van Andel Research Institute, 333 Bostwick Avenue Northeast, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9125-4027

Funding

Structural Genomics of Orphan Nuclear ReceptorsR01DK071662 · NIDDK · VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI XU, H ERIC · 2005 to 2017
$5.1M
Structural interrogation of allosteric AMPK regulationR01GM104212 · NIGMS · VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI MELCHER, KARSTEN · 2013 to 2016
$1.5M
Structural and functional analysis of a dynamic ABA signaling complexR01GM102545 · NIGMS · VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI MELCHER, KARSTEN · 2012 to 2014
$1.1M
Mechanisms Regulating DNA Methylation Maintenance in ChromatinR00CA181343 · NCI · VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI ROTHBART, SCOTT · 2015 to 2017
$746k
Mechanisms Regulating DNA Methylation Maintenance in ChromatinK99CA181343 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI ROTHBART, SCOTT · 2014 to 2015
$211k
NCI NIH HHS K99 CA181343NCI NIH HHS R00 CA181343NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK071662NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM102545NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104212
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TOPLESS are tetrameric plant corepressors of the conserved Tup1/Groucho/TLE (transducin-like enhancer of split) family. We show that they interact through their TOPLESS domains (TPDs) with two functionally important ethylene response factor-associated amphiphilic repression (EAR) motifs of the rice strigolactone signaling repressor D53: the universally conserved EAR-3 and the monocot-specific EAR-2. We present the crystal structure of the monocot-specific EAR-2 peptide in complex with the TOPLESS-related protein 2 (TPR2) TPD, in which the EAR-2 motif binds the same TPD groove as jasmonate and auxin signaling repressors but makes additional contacts with a second TPD site to mediate TPD tetramer-tetramer interaction. We validated the functional relevance of the two TPD binding sites in reporter gene assays and in transgenic rice and demonstrate that EAR-2 binding induces TPD oligomerization. Moreover, we demonstrate that the TPD directly binds nucleosomes and the tails of histones H3 and H4. Higher-order assembly of TPD complexes induced by EAR-2 binding markedly stabilizes the nucleosome-TPD interaction. These results establish a new TPD-repressor binding mode that promotes TPD oligomerization and TPD-nucleosome interaction, thus illustrating the initial assembly of a repressor-corepressor-nucleosome complex.

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Amino Acid MotifsProtein MultimerizationAmino Acid SequenceCo-Repressor ProteinsHistonesHumansMacromolecular SubstancesModels, BiologicalModels, MolecularMutationNucleosomesPeptidesPhenotypePlant ProteinsProtein BindingProtein ConformationCo-Repressor ProteinsHistonesMacromolecular SubstancesNucleosomesPeptidesPlant ProteinsRepressor ProteinscorepressorD53GrouchonucleosomestrigolactoneTOPLESS

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