PUBLICATION

Structures of SAS-6 Suggest Its Organization in Centrioles

Authors
van Breugel, M., Hirono, M., Andreeva, A., Yanagisawa, H.A., Yamaguchi, S., Nakazawa, Y., Morgner, N., Petrovich, M., Ebong, I.O., Robinson, C.V., Johnson, C.M., Veprintsev, D., and Zuber, B.
ID
ZDB-PUB-110131-37
Date
2011
Source
Science (New York, N.Y.)   331(6021): 1196-1199 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Johnson, Christopher
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Protein Multimerization
  • Recombinant Proteins/chemistry
  • Recombinant Proteins/metabolism
  • Cell Cycle Proteins/chemistry
  • Cell Cycle Proteins/metabolism
  • Amino Acid Motifs
  • Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/chemistry*
  • Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/metabolism
  • Zebrafish
  • Humans
  • Centrosome/metabolism
  • Protein Structure, Quaternary
  • Centrioles/chemistry*
  • Centrioles/metabolism
  • Centrioles/ultrastructure
  • Models, Molecular
  • Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
  • Flagella/metabolism
  • Flagella/ultrastructure
  • Animals
  • Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/chemistry
  • Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/metabolism
  • Zebrafish Proteins/chemistry*
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
  • Point Mutation
  • Mutant Proteins/chemistry
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Cell Line, Tumor
PubMed
21273447 Full text @ Science
Abstract
Centrioles are cylindrical, nine-fold symmetrical structures with peripheral triplet microtubules strictly required to template cilia and flagella. The highly conserved protein SAS-6 constitutes the center of the cartwheel assembly that scaffolds centrioles early in their biogenesis. We determined the x-ray structure of the N-terminal domain of SAS-6 from zebrafish and show that recombinant SAS-6 self-associates in vitro into assemblies that resemble cartwheel centers. Point mutations are consistent with the notion that centriole formation in vivo depends on the interactions that define the self-assemblies observed here. Thus, these interactions are likely essential to the structural organization of cartwheel centers.
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