| Accession: | |
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| Functional site class: | Trf4 PAP-associated domain ligand |
| Functional site description: | The Trf4/5-Air1/2-Mtr4 polyadenylation (TRAMP) RNA quality control complex is a key player in RNA surveillance. Within this complex Air1/2 employs its 5th zinc knuckle and a conserved IWRxY motif within the linker connecting the 4th and 5th zinc knuckles for binding Trf4, while other regions of the protein (including an MTR4 arch domain-interacting (AIM) motif) contact Mtr4, thus ultimately fulfilling a bridging function within the complex. The motif is present in the close paralogs Air1 and Air2 and it seems to be strictly conserved from yeasts to human, since it is also present in the human ortholog ZCCHC7. |
| ELM Description: | The IWRxY motif is located at the beginning of the linker between the 4th and 5th zinc knuckles of Air1/2, right after the 4th zinc knuckle (Fasken,2011; Hamill,2010). The conserved starting Ile residue of the motif is only separated by two residues from the last Cys of the 4th zinc knuckle. This is probably the reason why, although the motif resides within a linker, it is not predicted to be natively disordered. In the complex (3NYB) between yeast Air2 (Q12476) and Trf4 (P53632) the motif is partly helical, a helix is formed by part of the 4th zinc knuckle, the residues separating it from the motif and the first two residues of the motif I139 and the conserved W140 (UniProt numbering). W140 fits into a hydrophobic pocket, while the first residue after the helix, R141 coordinates several salt bridges with both E378 and E381 of Trf4. With the following residue, A142, the Air2 chain turns back and the following conserved Y143 forms a hydrogen bond with the sidechain of E378 of Trf4 through its OH group (so a change to Phe in this position would destroy this contact; Hamill,2010). L145 also makes hydrophobic contacts and it is highly conserved in yeasts and in vertebrates, except for S. pombe Air1. The structural features of the bound motif are in good agreement with the alignments of Air1 and Air2 showing that while the I139 position has slight sequence variability among similarly sized hydrophobic residues Ile, Leu and Val, the W140, R141 and Y143 positions are strictly conserved in all the species. |
| Pattern: | [IVL]WR.Y |
| Pattern Probability: | 8.990e-07 |
| Present in taxon: | Eukaryota |
| Interaction Domain: |
PAP/25A-associated (IPR002058)
This domain is found in poly(A) polymerases and has been shown to have polynucleotide adenylyltransferase activity
(Stochiometry: 1 : 1)
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| Acc., Gene-, Name | Start | End | Subsequence | Logic | #Ev. | Organism | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q12476 AIR2 AIR2_YEAST |
139 | 143 | SKERCPSIWRAYILVDDNEK | TP | 3 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c | |
| Q8N3Z6 ZCCHC7 ZCHC7_HUMAN |
322 | 326 | YTDACTEIWRQYHLTTKPGP | TP | 1 | Homo sapiens (Human) | |
| Q9P795 air1 AIR1_SCHPO |
169 | 173 | TSSTCPLIWRYYVEKEHPVR | TP | 6 | Schizosaccharomyces pombe 972h- | |
| P40507 AIR1 AIR1_YEAST |
152 | 156 | SRERCPSIWRSYLLKTKDAN | TP | 4 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae S288c |