Nieng Yan;继杰 柴;Seung Lee Eui;立川 谷;Qun Liu;Jiaqing He;Jia Wei Wu;David Kokel;Huilin Li;Quan Hao;定 薛;一公 施
Princeton University;University of Colorado Boulder;Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology;Cornell University;Brookhaven National Laboratory
发表时间:2005-10-6
期 刊:Nature
语 言:English
U R L: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=26844485563&partnerID=8YFLogxK
Interplay among four genes-egl-1, ced-9, ced-4 and ced-3-controls the onset of programmed cell death in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Activation of the cell-killing protease CED-3 requires CED-4. However, CED-4 is constitutively inhibited by CED-9 until its release by EGL-1. Here we report the crystal structure of the CED-4-CED-9 complex at 2.6 Å resolution, and a complete reconstitution of the CED-3 activation pathway using homogeneous proteins of CED-4, CED-9 and EGL-1. One molecule of CED-9 binds to an asymmetric dimer of CED-4, but specifically recognizes only one of the two CED-4 molecules. This specific interaction prevents CED-4 from activating CED-3. EGL-1 binding induces pronounced conformational changes in CED-9 that result in the dissociation of the CED-4 dimer from CED-9. The released CED-4 dimer further dimerizes to form a tetramer, which facilitates the autoactivation of CED-3. Together, our studies provide important insights into the regulation of cell death activation in C. elegans.
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1998 | |||
1999 | 15.599 | 7.187 | |
2000 | 11.917 | 6.857 | |
2001 | 9.874 | 6.767 | |
2002 | 10.114 | 7.184 | |
2003 | 11.384 | 7.492 | |
2004 | 11.222 | 7.538 | |
2005 | 10.333 | 7.199 | |
2006 | 9.702 | 7.156 | |
2007 | 10.344 | 7.097 | |
2008 | 13.17 | 7.307 | |
2009 | 15.185 | 8.234 | |
2010 | 16.465 | 8.204 | |
2011 | 53.1 | 17.598 | 8.667 |
2012 | 51 | 17.546 | 8.409 |
2013 | 50.9 | 19.69 | 8.511 |
2014 | 49.9 | 18.78 | 7.918 |
2015 | 51.6 | 19.669 | 8.08 |
2016 | 49.2 | 18.389 | 7.901 |
2017 | 53.7 | 17.875 | 8.679 |
2018 | 55.7 | 16.345 | 9.448 |
2019 | 51 | 14.047 | 8.546 |
2020 | 56.9 | 15.993 | 9.249 |
2021 | 56 |
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