Article ; Online: Conservation of Affinity Rather Than Sequence Underlies a Dynamic Evolution of the Motif-Mediated p53/MDM2 Interaction in Ray-Finned Fishes.
Molecular biology and evolution
2024 Volume 41, Issue 2
Abstract: The transcription factor and cell cycle regulator p53 is marked for degradation by the ubiquitin ligase MDM2. The interaction between these 2 proteins is mediated by a conserved binding motif in the disordered p53 transactivation domain (p53TAD) and the ... ...
| Abstract | The transcription factor and cell cycle regulator p53 is marked for degradation by the ubiquitin ligase MDM2. The interaction between these 2 proteins is mediated by a conserved binding motif in the disordered p53 transactivation domain (p53TAD) and the folded SWIB domain in MDM2. The conserved motif in p53TAD from zebrafish displays a 20-fold weaker interaction with MDM2, compared to the interaction in human and chicken. To investigate this apparent difference, we tracked the molecular evolution of the p53TAD/MDM2 interaction among ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), the largest vertebrate clade. Intriguingly, phylogenetic analyses, ancestral sequence reconstructions, and binding experiments showed that different loss-of-affinity changes in the canonical binding motif within p53TAD have occurred repeatedly and convergently in different fish lineages, resulting in relatively low extant affinities (KD = 0.5 to 5 μM). However, for 11 different fish p53TAD/MDM2 interactions, nonconserved regions flanking the canonical motif increased the affinity 4- to 73-fold to be on par with the human interaction. Our findings suggest that compensating changes at conserved and nonconserved positions within the motif, as well as in flanking regions of low conservation, underlie a stabilizing selection of "functional affinity" in the p53TAD/MDM2 interaction. Such interplay complicates bioinformatic prediction of binding and calls for experimental validation. Motif-mediated protein-protein interactions involving short binding motifs and folded interaction domains are very common across multicellular life. It is likely that the evolution of affinity in motif-mediated interactions often involves an interplay between specific interactions made by conserved motif residues and nonspecific interactions by nonconserved disordered regions. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Humans ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/genetics ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/chemistry ; Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/metabolism ; Zebrafish ; Phylogeny ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Protein Binding ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2/genetics ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2/chemistry ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2/metabolism |
| Chemical Substances | Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 ; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-mdm2 (EC 2.3.2.27) ; MDM2 protein, human (EC 2.3.2.27) |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-01-14 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 998579-7 |
| ISSN | 1537-1719 ; 0737-4038 |
| ISSN (online) | 1537-1719 |
| ISSN | 0737-4038 |
| DOI | 10.1093/molbev/msae018 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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