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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 289, Issue 33, Pages 22692-22703Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.584490
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31325007]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB08010203]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China (National Basic Research Program of China) [2010CB835402]
- Beijing Municipal Government
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Ribosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires a large number of transiently associated assembly factors that coordinate processing and folding of pre-rRNA and binding of ribosomal proteins. Krr1 and Faf1 are two interacting proteins present in early 90 S precursor particles of the small ribosomal subunit. Here, we determined a co-crystal structure of the core domain of Krr1 bound to a 19-residue fragment of Faf1 at 2.8 angstrom resolution. The structure reveals that Krr1 consists of two packed K homology (KH) domains, KH1 and KH2, and resembles archaeal Dim2-like proteins. We show that KH1 is a divergent KH domain that lacks the RNA-binding GXXG motif and is involved in binding another assembly factor, Kri1. KH2 contains a canonical RNA-binding surface and additionally associates with an alpha-helix of Faf1. Specific disruption of the Krr1-Faf1 interaction impaired early 18 S rRNA processing at sites A0, A1, and A2 and caused cell lethality, but it did not prevent incorporation of the two proteins into pre-ribosomes. The Krr1-Faf1 interaction likely maintains a critical conformation of 90 S pre-ribosomes required for pre-rRNA processing. Our results illustrate the versatility of KH domains in protein interaction and provide insight into the role of Krr1-Faf1 interaction in ribosome biogenesis.
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