Integrated structural model and membrane targeting mechanism of the human ESCRT-II complex.

ESCRT-II plays a pivotal role in receptor downregulation and multivesicular body biogenesis and is conserved from yeast to humans. The crystal structures of two human ESCRT-II complex structures have been determined at 2.6 and 2.9 A resolution, respectively. The complex has three lobes and contains one copy each of VPS22 ...
and VPS36 and two copies of VPS25. The structure reveals a dynamic helical domain to which both the VPS22 and VPS36 subunits contribute that connects the GLUE domain to the rest of the ESCRT-II core. Hydrodynamic analysis shows that intact ESCRT-II has a compact, closed conformation. ESCRT-II binds to the ESCRT-I VPS28 C-terminal domain subunit through a helix immediately C-terminal to the VPS36-GLUE domain. ESCRT-II is targeted to endosomal membranes by the lipid-binding activities of both the Vps36 GLUE domain and the first helix of Vps22. These data provide a unifying structural and functional framework for the ESCRT-II complex.
Mesh Terms:
Amino Acid Motifs, Amino Acid Sequence, Binding Sites, Crystallography, X-Ray, Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport, Endosomes, Glutathione Transferase, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Humans, Liposomes, Membrane Proteins, Models, Molecular, Models, Structural, Molecular Sequence Data, Protein Binding, Protein Conformation, Protein Structure, Secondary, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Protein Subunits, Protein Transport, Proteins, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Vesicular Transport Proteins
Dev. Cell
Date: Jun. 01, 2008
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