title: Regions essential for the interaction between Bcl-2 and SMN, the spinal muscular atrophy disease gene product.
abstract: The SMN gene is implicated in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), and its product has been shown to interact with Bcl-2 protein to enhance its anti-apoptotic activity. In this study, we determined the regions that were essential for the interaction of Bcl-2 and SMN by co-immunoprecipitation of deletion mutants. Bcl-2 lacking its amino-terminal 20 amino acid residues or its carboxyl-terminal membrane-anchoring domain showed no or greatly reduced binding with SMN, respectively. However, Bcl-2 lacking other regions could still bind to SMN. Because Bcl-2 lacking the membrane-anchoring domain could bind to SMN in a yeast two-hybrid system, the amino-terminal region of Bcl-2 seems to be the most important domain for binding with SMN. A fragment of SMN encoded by exon 6 could bind to Bcl-2, but SMN lacking this region could not. From these results, we concluded that Bcl-2 and SMN proteins bound with each other at the amino-terminal region near the BH4 domain of Bcl-2 and the region encoded by exon 6 of SMN, both regions known to be important for their function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Genetics, Biomedical Research Center (B8), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, and CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corp., 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Eguchi
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Kodama
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tsujimoto
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D001665:Binding Sites; D019556:COS Cells; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017362:Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein; D005091:Exons; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009134:Muscular Atrophy, Spinal / Q000235:genetics*; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D055532:SMN Complex Proteins; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017384:Sequence Deletion; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014162:Transfection; D051020:bcl-X Protein
chemical_list: C494811:BCL2L1 protein, human; D017362:Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2; D016601:RNA-Binding Proteins; D055532:SMN Complex Proteins; D051020:bcl-X Protein