Chemical shift assignment of the ataxin-1 AXH domain in complex with a CIC ligand peptide

Ataxin-1 is the protein responsible for the genetically-inherited neurodegenerative disease spinocerebellar ataxia type-1 linked to the expansion of a polyglutamine tract within the protein sequence. The AXH domain of ataxin-1 is essential for the protein to function as a transcriptional co-repressor and mediates the majority of the interactions of ataxin-1 with cellular partners, mainly transcriptional regulators. One of the best characterized ataxin-1 functional partners is Capicua (CIC), a transcriptional repressor involved in signalling pathways that regulate mammalian development, tumorigenesis and, through the interaction with ataxin-1, also neurodegeneration. Complex formation of ataxin-1 with CIC is important both for the function of the wild-type protein and for pathogenesis as transcriptional disregulation is observed since the early stages of the development of the disease. Here we report the H-1, C-13 and N-15 backbone and side-chain chemical shift assignments of the human ataxin-1 AXH domain in complex with a CIC ligand-peptide.