The prooncoprotein EWS binds calmodulin and is phosphorylated by protein kinase C through an IQ domain.
A growing family of proteins is regulated by protein kinase C and calmodulin through IQ domains, a regulatory motif originally identified in neuromodulin (Alexander, K. A., Wakim, B. T., Doyle, G. S., Walsh, K. A., and Storm, D. R. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 7544-7549). Here we report that EWS, a nuclear RNA-binding prooncoprotein, contains an IQ domain, is phosphorylated by protein kinase C, and interacts with calmodulin. Interestingly, PKC phosphorylation of EWS inhibits its binding to RNA homopolymers, and conversely, RNA binding to EWS interferes with PKC phosphorylation. Several other RNA-binding proteins, including TLS/FUS and PSF, co-purify with EWS. PKC phosphorylation of these proteins also inhibits their binding to RNA in vitro. These data suggest that PKC may regulate interactions of EWS and other RNA-binding proteins with their RNA targets and that IQ domains may provide a regulatory link between Ca2+ signal transduction pathways and RNA processing.
Deloulme
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JC
University of Washington, Department of Pharmacology, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Prichard
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L
Delattre
O
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Storm
D R
DR
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D002147:Calmodulin; D034441:Heterogeneous-Nuclear Ribonucleoproteins; D034802:RNA-Binding Protein EWS; D034702:RNA-Binding Protein FUS; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D012261:Ribonucleoproteins; D011493:Protein Kinase C