RUVBL1-RUVBL2 AAA-ATPase: a versatile scaffold for multiple complexes and functions
Maria I Dauden1, Andrés López-Perrote1, Oscar Llorca1
1Structural Biology Programme, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Melchor Fernández Almagro 3, Madrid 28029, Spain.
Abstract:
RUVBL1 and RUVBL2 are two highly conserved AAA+ ATPases that form a hetero-hexameric complex that participates in a wide range of unrelated cellular processes, including chromatin remodeling, Fanconi Anemia (FA), nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), and assembly and maturation of several large macromolecular complexes such as RNA polymerases, the box C/D small nucleolar ribonucleoprotein (snoRNP) and mTOR complexes. How the RUVBL1-RUVBL2 complex works in such a variety of processes, sometimes antagonistic, has been obscure for a long time. Recent cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies have started to reveal how RUVBL1-RUVBL2 forms a scaffold for complex protein-protein interactions and how the structure and ATPase activity of RUVBL1-RUVBL2 can be affected and regulated by the interaction with clients.
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