Download MendeleyCrystal Structure of Human Vacuolar Protein Sorting Protein 29 Reveals a Phosphodiesterase/Nuclease-Like Fold and Two Protein-Protein Interaction Sites.
Wang, D., Guo, M., Liang, Z., Fan, J., Zhu, Z., Zang, J., Zhu, Z., Li, X., Teng, M., Niu, L., Dong, Y., Liu, P.(2005) J Biol Chem 280: 22962
- PubMed: 15788412
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M500464200
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Vacuolar protein sorting protein 29 (Vps29p), which is involved in retrograde trafficking from prevacuolar endosomes to the trans-Golgi network, performs its biological functions by participating in the formation of a "retromer complex." In human cells, this complex comprises four conserved proteins: hVps35p, hVps29p, hVps26p, and sorting nexin 1 protein (SNX1). Here, we report the crystal structure of hVps29p at 2.1 Angstroms resolution, the first three-dimensional structure of the retromer subunits. This novel structure adopts a four-layered alpha-beta-beta-alpha sandwich fold. hVps29p contains a metal-binding site that is very similar to the active sites of some proteins of the phosphodiesterase/nuclease protein family, indicating that hVps29p may carry out chemically similar functions. Structure and sequence conservation analysis suggests that hVps29p contains two protein-protein interaction sites. One site, which potentially serves as the interface between hVps29p and hVps35p, comprises 5 conserved hydrophobic and 8 hydrophilic residues. The other site is relatively more hydrophilic and may serve as a binding interface with hVps26p, SNX1, or other target proteins.
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Hefei National Laboratory of Physical Sciences at Microscale, Key Laboratory of Structural Biology of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
