Functional insights from high resolution structures of mouse protein arginine methyltransferase 6.
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Date publication
juin 2015
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr CAVARELLI Jean, Dr CIANFERANI Sarah
Tous les auteurs :
Bonnefond L, Stojko J, Mailliot J, Troffer-Charlier N, Cura V, Wurtz JM, Cianferani S, Cavarelli J
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Résumé
PRMT6 is a protein arginine methyltransferase involved in transcriptional regulation, human immunodeficiency virus pathogenesis, DNA base excision repair, and cell cycle progression. Like other PRMTs, PRMT6 is overexpressed in several cancer types and is therefore considered as a potential anti-cancer drug target. In the present study, we described six crystal structures of PRMT6 from Mus musculus, solved and refined at 1.34A for the highest resolution structure. The crystal structures revealed that the folding of the helix alphaX is required to stabilize a productive active site before methylation of the bound peptide can occur. In the absence of cofactor, metal cations can be found in the catalytic pocket at the expected position of the guanidinium moiety of the target arginine substrate. Using mass spectrometry under native conditions, we show that PRMT6 dimer binds two cofactor and a single H4 peptide molecules. Finally, we characterized a new site of in vitro automethylation of mouse PRMT6 at position 7.
Référence
J Struct Biol. 2015 Jun 18. pii: S1047-8477(15)30021-6