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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 56, Issue 20, Pages 2612-2626Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b00283
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- National Institutes of Health [GM026020, GM007185]
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
- Elizabeth and Thomas Plott Chair in Gerontology of the UCLA Longevity Center
- UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship
- UCLA Faculty Research Award
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Caenorhabditis elegans protein arginine methyltransferases PRMT-7 and PRMT-9 are two evolutionarily conserved enzymes, with distinct orthologs in plants, invertebrates, and vertebrates. Biochemical characterization of these two enzymes reveals that they share much in common with their mammalian orthologs. C. elegans PRMT-7 produces only monomethylarginine (MMA) and preferentially methylates R-X-R motifs in a broad collection of substrates, including human histone peptides and RGrich peptides. In addition, the activity of the PRMT-7 enzyme is dependent on temperature, the presence of metal ions, and the reducing agent dithiothreitol. C. elegans PRMT-7 has a substrate specificity and a substrate preference different from those of mammalian PRMT7, and the available X-ray crystal structures of the PRMT7 orthologs show differences in active site architecture. C. elegans PRMT-9, on the other hand, produces symmetric dimethylarginine and MMA on SFTB-2, the conserved C. elegans ortholog of human RNA splicing factor SF3B2, indicating a possible role in the regulation of nematode splicing. In contrast to PRMT-7, C. elegans PRMT-9 appears to be biochemically indistinguishable from its human ortholog.
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