ジャーナル: Nat Struct Mol Biol / 年: 2026 タイトル: Structural insight into IscB's RNA-lid-based inactivation mechanism. 著者: Feizuo Wang / Ruochen Guo / Senfeng Zhang / Yinuo Cui / Junlan Wang / Tao Hu / Kunming Liu / Qi Wang / Yao Liu / Ki Hyun Nam / Ziqing Winston Zhao / Quanquan Ji / Xin Xu / Ercheng Wang / ...著者: Feizuo Wang / Ruochen Guo / Senfeng Zhang / Yinuo Cui / Junlan Wang / Tao Hu / Kunming Liu / Qi Wang / Yao Liu / Ki Hyun Nam / Ziqing Winston Zhao / Quanquan Ji / Xin Xu / Ercheng Wang / Youyuan Zhu / Yao Yang / Min Luo / Peixiang Ma / Shengsheng Ma / Chunlong Xu / Chunyi Hu / 要旨: IscB, a compact Cas9 ancestor from the obligate mobile element guided activity system, has attracted growing interest as a programmable genome editor because of its small size and therapeutic ...IscB, a compact Cas9 ancestor from the obligate mobile element guided activity system, has attracted growing interest as a programmable genome editor because of its small size and therapeutic delivery potential. Despite its promise, structural insights into IscB's regulation remain limited, with only a target-bound R-loop structure previously reported. Here, we present the structural trajectory of an engineered IscB, capturing its transition from a resting state to activation. Using cryo-electron microscopy, we resolve four high-resolution structures: the apo resting state, two intermediate complexes with 6-nt and 10-nt guide-target pairing and a fully paired 16-nt primed cleavage state. These structures uncover a dual inactivation mechanism mediated by RNA lids; the ωRNA lid blocks HNH domain access, while the guide RNA lid occludes the RuvC active site. As guide-target pairing progresses, the guide RNA undergoes a stepwise displacement, mimicking a 'car pedal' motion that triggers activation at 11-nt pairing. The HNH domain also contributes to R-loop stabilization through a positively charged R-wedge motif and undergoes a ~90° activation-driven rotation mediated by two hinge regions. In variants IscBHig1 and IscBHig2, engineering these hinge motifs to enhance conformational flexibility notably improved genome-editing efficiency in cells. In summary, our study reveals the molecular basis underlying IscB autoinhibition and activation, identifies previously uncharacterized regulatory features and establishes hinge elements as a target region for engineering compact, efficient genome editors.
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