Structural highlights
Function
[CBF3B_YEAST] Acts as a component of the centromere DNA-binding protein complex CBF3, which is essential for chromosome segregation and movement of centromeres along microtubules. CBF3 is required for the recruitment of other kinetochore complexes to CEN DNA. It plays a role in the attachment of chromosomes to the spindle and binds selectively to a highly conserved DNA sequence called CDEIII, found in centromers and in several promoters.
Publication Abstract from PubMed
In budding yeast, the four-protein CBF3 complex (Skp1p-Ctf13p-Cep3p-Ndc10p) initiates kinetochore assembly by binding to the CDEIII locus of centromeric DNA. A Cep3p dimer recruits a Skp1p-Ctf13p heterodimer and contacts two sites on CDEIII. We report here the crystal structure, determined at 2.8 A resolution by multiple isomorphous replacement with anomalous scattering, of a truncated Cep3p (Cep3p [47-608]), comprising all but an N-terminal, Zn(2)Cys(6)-cluster, DNA-binding module. Cep3p has a well-ordered structure throughout essentially all of its polypeptide chain, unlike most yeast transcription factors, including those with Zn(2)Cys(6) clusters, such as Gal4p. This difference may reflect an underlying functional distinction: whereas any particular transcription factor must adapt to a variety of upstream activating sites, Cep3p scaffolds kinetochore assembly on centromeres uniformly configured on all 16 yeast chromosomes. We have, using the structure of Cep3p (47-608) and the known structures of Zn(2)Cys(6)-cluster domains, modeled the interaction of Cep3p with CDEIII.
Crystal structure of the yeast inner kinetochore subunit Cep3p.,Bellizzi JJ 3rd, Sorger PK, Harrison SC Structure. 2007 Nov;15(11):1422-30. PMID:17997968[1]
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References
- ↑ Bellizzi JJ 3rd, Sorger PK, Harrison SC. Crystal structure of the yeast inner kinetochore subunit Cep3p. Structure. 2007 Nov;15(11):1422-30. PMID:17997968 doi:10.1016/j.str.2007.09.008
