Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Biomol NMR Assign. 2022 Apr;16(1):171-178. doi: 10.1007/s12104-022-10081-8. Epub 2022 Apr 1.
The human MDMX protein, also known as MDM4, plays a pivotal role in regulating the activity of the tumor suppressor protein p53 by restricting p53 transcriptional activity and stimulating the E3 ubiquitin ligase activity of another key regulatory protein, MDM2, to promote p53 degradation. MDMX is ubiquitously expressed in most tissue types and overexpression of MDMX has been implicated in many forms of cancer. MDMX has been shown to require an intact N-terminal p53-binding domain and C-terminal RING domain to exert inhibitory effects on p53. The presence of a tryptophan-rich sequence in the central acidic domain of MDMX has also been implicated in regulating the interaction between MDMX and p53, directly interacting with the p53 DNA-binding domain. To date, little structural information has been obtained for this acidic region of MDMX that encompasses the Trp-rich sequence. In order to gain insight into the structure and function of this region, we have carried out solution-state NMR spectroscopy studies utilizing the segment of MDMX spanning residues 181-300-with bounds specifically chosen through multiple sequence alignment-which encompasses nearly 25% of MDMX. Here, we report the H, N and C backbone chemical shift assignments of the acidic domain of MDMX and show that it exhibits hallmarks of intrinsic disorder and localized variation in inferred secondary structure propensity.
人源 MDMX 蛋白,又名 MDM4,在调节肿瘤抑制蛋白 p53 的活性方面发挥着关键作用,其通过限制 p53 的转录活性并刺激另一个关键调节蛋白 MDM2 的 E3 泛素连接酶活性,从而促进 p53 的降解。MDMX 在大多数组织类型中广泛表达,MDMX 的过表达与多种癌症有关。已有研究表明,MDMX 需要完整的 N 端 p53 结合域和 C 端 RING 结构域,才能对 p53 产生抑制作用。MDMX 中央酸性结构域中富含色氨酸的序列也被认为在调节 MDMX 与 p53 之间的相互作用中发挥作用,直接与 p53 DNA 结合域相互作用。迄今为止,对于包含富含色氨酸序列的 MDMX 这一酸性区域,我们获得的结构信息很少。为了深入了解该区域的结构和功能,我们利用跨越残基 181-300 的 MDMX 片段进行了溶液状态 NMR 光谱研究,这些残基是通过多重序列比对专门选择的,几乎涵盖了 MDMX 的 25%。在这里,我们报告了 MDMX 酸性结构域的 H、N 和 C 骨架化学位移归属,并表明其表现出固有无序和推断二级结构倾向的局部变化的特征。