Effects of Linker Length and Transient Secondary Structure Elements in the Intrinsically Disordered Notch RAM Region on Notch Signaling

Journal of Molecular Biology
Kathryn P SherryDoug Barrick

Abstract

Formation of the bivalent interaction between the Notch intracellular domain (NICD) and the transcription factor CBF-1/RBP-j, Su(H), Lag-1 (CSL) is a key event in Notch signaling because it switches Notch-responsive genes from a repressed state to an activated state. Interaction of the intrinsically disordered RBP-j-associated molecule (RAM) region of NICD with CSL is thought to both disrupt binding of corepressor proteins to CSL and anchor NICD to CSL, promoting interaction of the ankyrin domain of NICD with CSL through an effective concentration mechanism. To quantify the role of disorder in the RAM linker region on the effective concentration enhancement of Notch transcriptional activation, we measured the effects of linker length variation on activation. The resulting activation profile has general features of a worm-like chain model for effective concentration. However, deviations from the model for short sequence deletions suggest that RAM contains sequence-specific structural elements that may be important for activation. Structural characterization of the RAM linker with sedimentation velocity analytical ultracentrifugation and NMR spectroscopy reveals that the linker is compact and contains three transient helices and ...Continue Reading

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May 16, 2017·Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics·Eric B GibbsScott A Showalter
Oct 29, 2017·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Kathryn P SherryDoug Barrick
Oct 30, 2019·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Charlotte S Sørensen, Magnus Kjaergaard
Sep 14, 2019·Journal of Molecular Biology·Charlotte S SørensenMagnus Kjaergaard

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