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Modulación de largo alcance de los movimientos en cadena dentro del dominio de transactivación intrínsecamente
Jenifer K Lum1, Hannes Neuweiler, Alan R Fersht
1Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|December 20, 2011
Resumen
El supresor del tumor p53.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Dinámica de las proteínas Dinámica de las proteínas.
Sus antecedentes:
- La proteína supresora de tumores p53 es crucial en la regulación celular.
- Su dominio N-terminal intrínsecamente desordenado (p53-TAD) interactúa con numerosos socios.
- Los socios vinculantes como MDM2 pueden inducir la estructura local en p53-TAD.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar los movimientos de la cadena segmentaria en p53-TAD.
- Para entender cómo la unión a las proteínas y la fosforilación afectan estos movimientos.
- Para explorar la respuesta dinámica de p53-TAD a las modificaciones regulatorias.
Principales métodos:
- Se utilizó la espectroscopia de correlación de transferencia de energía de resonancia de Förster (FRET) - fluorescencia (FCS).
- Estudió la cinética de cierre del bucle de cuatro segmentos consecutivos dentro de p53-TAD.
- Se analizaron los efectos de la unión y fosforilación de MDM2 en la dinámica de la cadena.
Principales resultados:
- p53-TAD exhibe cinética multiexponencial, que se desvía de un modelo de bobina al azar.
- La unión a MDM2 y la fosforilación alteraron los patrones de cinética intracadena.
- Se observaron alteraciones inesperadas en los movimientos de la cadena en regiones remotas tras la unión y la fosforilación.
Conclusiones:
- Los dominios intrínsecamente desordenados como el p53-TAD poseen dinámicas conformacionales complejas.
- La vinculación de socios y las modificaciones post-traduccionales pueden inducir interacciones de largo alcance dentro de estos dominios.
- Estos hallazgos revelan un mecanismo de regulación más intrincado para la función p53.
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