Allosteric regulation of Argonaute proteins by miRNAs

Sergej Djuranovic; Michelle Kim Zinchenko; Junho K. Hur; Ali Nahvi; Julie L. Brunelle; Elizabeth J. Rogers; Rachel Green

doi:10.1038/nsmb.1736

Allosteric regulation of Argonaute proteins by miRNAs

Sergej Djuranovic, Michelle Kim Zinchenko, Junho K. Hur, Ali Nahvi, Julie L. Brunelle, Elizabeth J. Rogers, Rachel Green

Howard Hughes Medical Institution

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Abstract

Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs) bind to Argonaute (AGO) family proteins to form a related set of effector complexes that have diverse roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation throughout the eukaryotic lineage. Here sequence and structural analysis of the MID domain of the AGO proteins identified similarities with a family of allosterically regulated bacterial ligand-binding domains. We used in vitro and in vivo approaches to show that certain AGO proteins (those involved in translational repression) have conserved this functional allostery between two distinct sites, one involved in binding miRNA-target duplex and the other in binding the 5′ cap feature (m⁷GpppG) of eukaryotic mRNAs. This allostery provides an explanation for how miRNA-bound effector complexes may avoidindiscriminate repressive action (mediated through binding interactions with the cap) before full target recognition.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	144-150
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
Volume	17
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.1736
State	Published - Feb 2010

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