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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 48, Issue 29, Pages 6824-6834Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi900488n
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- Chinese National Fundamental Research Project [2006CB806507, 2006CB910200]
- Chinese National Natural Science Foundation [30121001, 30670426]
- Chinese National High-tech RD Program [2096AA02A315]
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Human PDCD5 protein is a novel programmed cell death-promoting molecule. However, the function of Ymr074cP, a S. cerevisiae homologue of hPDCD5, is still unknown. Heteronuclear NMR methods were used to determine the Solution Structure of the N-terminal 116-residue fragment (N116) of Ymr074cP protein. NI 16 is shown to be a heterogeneous ensemble of flexibly folded conformations,adopting ail extended triple-helix bundle fold that is connected to a mobile but structured alpha-helix in the N-terminus by means of a lengthy highly flexible linker. By the nitroxide spin label, attached to the mutant cysteine residue at position 7 or 11, significant transient interactions were probed between the N-terminal helical portion and the core Moiety Plus several residues in the C-terminal tail. The topology of the triple-helix bundle is encoded mainly by hydrophobic interactions, and the N-terminal helical structure has a unique electrostatic potential character. A comparison of the solution structures of PDCD5-related proteins Indicates that the Structure of the triple-helix bundle is significantly conserved during evolution. We are the First to demonstrate that YMR074c overexpression promotes H2O2-induced apoptosis in yeast, not only in a metacaspase Yca1-dependent manner but also in a Yca1-independent manner and that deletion of the N-terminal helical portion greatly attenuates the apoptorsis-promoting activity of this protein.
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