Publication Date:
2011-08-20
Description:
The unfolded protein response (UPR) detects the accumulation of unfolded proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and adjusts the protein-folding capacity to the needs of the cell. Under conditions of ER stress, the transmembrane protein Ire1 oligomerizes to activate its cytoplasmic kinase and ribonuclease domains. It is unclear what feature of ER stress Ire1 detects. We found that the core ER-lumenal domain (cLD) of yeast Ire1 binds to unfolded proteins in yeast cells and to peptides primarily composed of basic and hydrophobic residues in vitro. Mutation of amino acid side chains exposed in a putative peptide-binding groove of Ire1 cLD impaired peptide binding. Peptide binding caused Ire1 cLD oligomerization in vitro, suggesting that direct binding to unfolded proteins activates the UPR.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202989/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202989/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gardner, Brooke M -- Walter, Peter -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Sep 30;333(6051):1891-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1209126. Epub 2011 Aug 18.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21852455" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Binding Sites
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Cathepsin A/chemistry/metabolism
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Endoplasmic Reticulum/*metabolism
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Fluorescence Polarization
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Fungal Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Glutathione Transferase/metabolism
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HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
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Ligands
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Membrane Glycoproteins/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Mutant Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Protein Binding
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Protein Conformation
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Protein Folding
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Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs
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Protein Multimerization
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Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/*chemistry/*metabolism
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Stress, Physiological
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*Unfolded Protein Response
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
