5VE8

Crystal structure of full-length Kluyveromyces lactis Kap123 with histone H3 1-28

Summary for 5VE8

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb5ve8/pdb
• Related: 5VCH
• Descriptor: Kap123, Histone H3 (3 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: bidding yeast karyopherin, 23 heat repeats with a right-handed superhelical solenoid structure, histone nls recognition, the extra-long helix of the repeat 23, protein transport
• Biological source: Kluyveromyces lactis (Yeast); More
• Cellular location: Nucleus : P61831
• Total number of polymer chains: 4
• Total formula weight: 253050.05

Authors

An, S.,Yoon, J.,Song, J.-J.,Cho, U.-S. (deposition date: 2017-04-04, release date: 2017-11-01, Last modification date: 2023-11-15)

Primary citation

An, S.,Yoon, J.,Kim, H.,Song, J.J.,Cho, U.S.
Structure-based nuclear import mechanism of histones H3 and H4 mediated by Kap123.
Elife, 6:-, 2017

PubMed Abstract: Kap123, a major karyopherin protein of budding yeast, recognizes the nuclear localization signals (NLSs) of cytoplasmic histones H3 and H4 and translocates them into the nucleus during DNA replication. Mechanistic questions include H3- and H4-NLS redundancy toward Kap123 and the role of the conserved diacetylation of cytoplasmic H4 (K5ac and K12ac) in Kap123-mediated histone nuclear translocation. Here, we report crystal structures of full-length Kap123 alone and in complex with H3- and H4-NLSs. Structures reveal the unique feature of Kap123 that possesses two discrete lysine-binding pockets for NLS recognition. Structural comparison illustrates that H3- and H4-NLSs share at least one of two lysine-binding pockets, suggesting that H3- and H4-NLSs are mutually exclusive. Additionally, acetylation of key lysine residues at NLS, particularly H4-NLS diacetylation, weakens the interaction with Kap123. These data support that cytoplasmic histone H4 diacetylation weakens the Kap123-H4-NLS interaction thereby facilitating histone Kap123-H3-dependent H3:H4/Asf1 complex nuclear translocation.

PubMed: 29035199
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.30244

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.7 Å)