1si2

Crystal structure of the PAZ domain of human eIF2c1 in complex with a 9-mer siRNA-like duplex of deoxynucleotide overhangCrystal structure of the PAZ domain of human eIF2c1 in complex with a 9-mer siRNA-like duplex of deoxynucleotide overhang

Structural highlights

1si2 is a 2 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:	X-ray diffraction, Resolution 2.6Å
Resources:	FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

AGO1_HUMAN Required for RNA-mediated gene silencing (RNAi). Binds to short RNAs such as microRNAs (miRNAs) or short interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and represses the translation of mRNAs which are complementary to them. Lacks endonuclease activity and does not appear to cleave target mRNAs. Also required for transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) of promoter regions which are complementary to bound short antigene RNAs (agRNAs).^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Evolutionary Conservation

Check, as determined by ConSurfDB. You may read the explanation of the method and the full data available from ConSurf.

References

↑ Meister G, Landthaler M, Peters L, Chen PY, Urlaub H, Luhrmann R, Tuschl T. Identification of novel argonaute-associated proteins. Curr Biol. 2005 Dec 6;15(23):2149-55. Epub 2005 Nov 10. PMID:16289642 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.048
↑ Janowski BA, Huffman KE, Schwartz JC, Ram R, Nordsell R, Shames DS, Minna JD, Corey DR. Involvement of AGO1 and AGO2 in mammalian transcriptional silencing. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2006 Sep;13(9):787-92. Epub 2006 Aug 27. PMID:16936728 doi:nsmb1140
↑ Wu L, Fan J, Belasco JG. Importance of translation and nonnucleolytic ago proteins for on-target RNA interference. Curr Biol. 2008 Sep 9;18(17):1327-32. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.072. PMID:18771919 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.072

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OCA

[1] Meister G, Landthaler M, Peters L, Chen PY, Urlaub H, Luhrmann R, Tuschl T. Identification of novel argonaute-associated proteins. Curr Biol. 2005 Dec 6;15(23):2149-55. Epub 2005 Nov 10. PMID:16289642 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.048

[2] Janowski BA, Huffman KE, Schwartz JC, Ram R, Nordsell R, Shames DS, Minna JD, Corey DR. Involvement of AGO1 and AGO2 in mammalian transcriptional silencing. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2006 Sep;13(9):787-92. Epub 2006 Aug 27. PMID:16936728 doi:nsmb1140

[3] Wu L, Fan J, Belasco JG. Importance of translation and nonnucleolytic ago proteins for on-target RNA interference. Curr Biol. 2008 Sep 9;18(17):1327-32. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.072. PMID:18771919 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.072

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