Journal
NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 9, Pages 985-989Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.1471
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- US National Institutes of Health [GM069507, GM083015]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM069507, R01GM083015] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Ever shorter telomeres 3 (Est3) is an essential telomerase regulatory subunit thought to be unique to budding yeasts. Here we use multiple sequence alignment and hidden Markov model-hidden Markov model (HMM-HMM) comparison to uncover potential similarities between Est3 and the mammalian telomeric protein Tpp1. Analysis of site-specific mutants of Candida albicans Est3 revealed functional distinctions between residues that are conserved between Est3 and Tpp1 and those that are unique to Est3. Although both types of residues are important for telomere maintenance in vivo, only the former contributes to telomerase activity in vitro and facilitates the association of Est3 with telomerase core components. Consistent with a function in protein-protein interaction, the residues common to Est3 and Tpp1 map to one face of an OB-fold model structure, away from the canonical nucleic acid binding surface. We propose that Est3 and the OB-fold domain of Tpp1 mediate a conserved function in telomerase regulation.
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