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CELL
Volume 122, Issue 6, Pages 887-900Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2005.06.044
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- Intramural NIH HHS Funding Source: Medline
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In response to binding viral double-stranded RNA by products within a cell, the RNA-dependent protein kinase PKR phosphorylates the a subunit of the translation initiation factor eIF2 on a regulatory site, Ser51. This triggers the general shutdown of protein synthesis and inhibition of viral propagation. To understand the basis for substrate recognition by and the regulation of PKR, we determined X-ray crystal structures of the catalytic domain of PKR in complex with eIF2 alpha. The structures reveal that eIF2a binds to the C-terminal catalytic lobe while catalytic-domain dimerization is mediated by the N-terminal lobe. In addition to inducing a local unfolding of the Ser51 acceptor site in eIF2 alpha, its mode of binding to PKR affords the Ser51 site full access to the catalytic cleft of PKR. The generality and implications of the structural mechanisms uncovered for PKR to the larger family of four human eIF2 alpha protein kinases are discussed.
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