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CELL
卷 163, 期 4, 页码 829-839出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.040
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- UTSWMC Endowed Scholars Program
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) [R1103]
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [U01GM10762301]
Many DNA and RNA regulatory proteins contain poly-peptidedomains that are unstructuredwhenanalyzed in cell lysates. These domains are typified by an over-representation of a limited number of amino acids and have been termed prion-like, intrinsically disordered or low-complexity (LC) domains. When incubated at high concentration, certain of these LC domains polymerize into labile, amyloid-like fibers. Here, we report methods allowing the generation of a molecular footprint of the polymeric state of the LC domain of hnRNPA2. By deploying this footprinting technique to probe the structure of the native hnRNPA2 protein present in isolated nuclei, we offer evidence that its LC domain exists in a similar conformation as that described for recombinant polymers of the protein. These observations favor biologic utility to the polymerization of LC domains in the pathway of information transfer from gene to message to protein.
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