7U4Z

The ubiquitin-associated domain of human thirty-eight negative kinase-1 flexibly fused to the 1TEL crystallization chaperone via a 2-glycine linker and crystallized at very low protein concentration

Summary for 7U4Z

• Entry DOI: 10.2210/pdb7u4z/pdb
• Related: 7T8J 7TCY 7TDY 7U4W
• Descriptor: Transcription factor ETV6,Non-receptor tyrosine-protein kinase TNK1, POTASSIUM ION (3 entities in total)
• Functional Keywords: protein polymer, ubiquitin-associated domain, helix bundle, chimera, signaling protein
• Biological source: Homo sapiens (human); More
• Total number of polymer chains: 1
• Total formula weight: 17814.15

Authors

Nawarathnage, S.,Smith, T.,Moody, J.D. (deposition date: 2022-03-01, release date: 2023-03-08, Last modification date: 2023-12-20)

Primary citation

Nawarathnage, S.,Tseng, Y.J.,Soleimani, S.,Smith, T.,Pedroza Romo, M.J.,Abiodun, W.O.,Egbert, C.M.,Madhusanka, D.,Bunn, D.,Woods, B.,Tsubaki, E.,Stewart, C.,Brown, S.,Doukov, T.,Andersen, J.L.,Moody, J.D.
Fusion crystallization reveals the behavior of both the 1TEL crystallization chaperone and the TNK1 UBA domain.
Structure, 31:1589-, 2023

PubMed Abstract: Human thirty-eight-negative kinase-1 (TNK1) is implicated in cancer progression. The TNK1 ubiquitin-associated (UBA) domain binds polyubiquitin and plays a regulatory role in TNK1 activity and stability. No experimentally determined molecular structure of this unusual UBA domain is available. We fused the UBA domain to the 1TEL variant of the translocation ETS leukemia protein sterile alpha motif (TELSAM) crystallization chaperone and obtained crystals diffracting as far as 1.53 Å. GG and GSGG linkers allowed the UBA to reproducibly find a productive binding mode against its host 1TEL polymer and crystallize at protein concentrations as low as 0.2 mg/mL. Our studies support a mechanism of 1TEL fusion crystallization and show that 1TEL fusion crystals require fewer crystal contacts than traditional protein crystals. Modeling and experimental validation suggest the UBA domain may be selective for both the length and linkages of polyubiquitin chains.

PubMed: 37776857
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2023.09.001

Experimental method

X-RAY DIFFRACTION (2.03 Å)