title: Domain-specific interactions of human HP1-type chromodomain proteins and inner nuclear membrane protein LBR.
abstract: HP1-type chromodomain proteins self-associate as well as interact with the inner nuclear membrane protein LBR (lamin B receptor) and transcriptional coactivators TIF1alpha and TIF1beta. The domains of these proteins that mediate their various interactions have not been entirely defined. HP1-type proteins are predicted by hydrophobic cluster analysis to consist of two homologous but distinct globular domains, corresponding to the chromodomain and chromo shadow domain, separated by a hinge region. We show here that the chromo shadow domain mediates the self-associations of HP1-type proteins and is also necessary for binding to LBR both in vitro and in the yeast two-hybrid assay. Hydrophobic cluster analysis also predicts that the nucleoplasmic amino-terminal portion of LBR contains two globular domains separated by a hinge region. The interactions of the LBR domains with an HP1-type protein were also analyzed by the yeast two-hybrid and in vitro binding assays, which showed that a portion of the second globular domain is necessary for binding. The modular domain organization of HP1-type proteins and LBR can explain some of the diverse protein-protein interactions at the chromatin-lamina-membrane interface of the nuclear envelope.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Callebaut
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pezhman
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Courvalin
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Worman
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D000090266:Chromobox Protein Homolog 5; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009685:Nuclear Envelope / Q000378:metabolism; D011487:Protein Conformation; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000378:metabolism*; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D000097682:Lamin B Receptor
chemical_list: D000090266:Chromobox Protein Homolog 5; D002868:Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D000097682:Lamin B Receptor