Summary information and primary citation
- PDB-id
- 6fqp; SNAP-derived features in text and JSON formats;
DNAproDB
- Class
- transcription
- Method
- X-ray (2.42 Å)
- Summary
- Crystal structure of tale homeobox domain transcription factor tgif1 with its consensus DNA
- Reference
- Guca E, Sunol D, Ruiz L, Konkol A, Cordero J, Torner C, Aragon E, Martin-Malpartida P, Riera A, Macias MJ (2018): "TGIF1 homeodomain interacts with Smad MH1 domain and represses TGF-beta signaling." Nucleic Acids Res., 46, 9220-9235. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky680.
- Abstract
- TGIF1 is a multifunctional protein that represses TGF-β-activated transcription by interacting with Smad2-Smad4 complexes. We found that the complex structure of TGIF1-HD bound to the TGACA motif revealed a combined binding mode that involves the HD core and the major groove, on the one hand, and the amino-terminal (N-term) arm and the minor groove of the DNA, on the other. We also show that TGIF1-HD interacts with the MH1 domain of Smad proteins, thereby indicating that TGIF1-HD is also a protein-binding domain. Moreover, the formation of the HD-MH1 complex partially hinders the DNA-binding site of the complex, preventing the efficient interaction of TGIF1-HD with DNA. We propose that the binding of the TGIF1 C-term to the Smad2-MH2 domain brings both the HD and MH1 domain into close proximity. This local proximity facilitates the interaction of these DNA-binding domains, thus strengthening the formation of the protein complex versus DNA binding. Once the protein complex has been formed, the TGIF1-Smad system would be released from promoters/enhancers, thereby illustrating one of the mechanisms used by TGIF1 to exert its function as an active repressor of Smad-induced TGF-β signaling.
