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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-6-6
pubmed:abstractText
The survival of motor neurons protein (SMN), the product of the neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) gene, functions as an assembly factor for snRNPs and likely other RNPs. SMN binds the arginine- and glycine-rich (RG) domains of the snRNP proteins SmD1 and SmD3. Specific arginines in these domains are modified to dimethylarginines, a common modification of unknown function. We show that SMN binds preferentially to the dimethylarginine-modified RG domains of SmD1 and SmD3. The binding of other SMN-interacting proteins is also strongly enhanced by methylation. Thus, methylation of arginines is a novel mechanism to promote specific protein-protein interactions and appears to be key to generating high-affinity SMN substrates. It is reasonable to expect that protein hypomethylation may contribute to the severity of SMA.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Arginine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Autoantigens, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Cyclic AMP Response..., http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Enzyme Inhibitors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/N,N-dimethylarginine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Nerve Tissue Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/RNA-Binding Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Recombinant Fusion Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nuclear, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SMN Complex Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SNRPD1 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SNRPD3 protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SNRPN protein, human, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/snRNP Core Proteins
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1097-2765
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1111-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Arginine, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Autoantigens, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Enzyme Inhibitors, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-HeLa Cells, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Methylation, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Muscular Atrophy, Spinal, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-RNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Recombinant Fusion Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nuclear, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-SMN Complex Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-Substrate Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:11389857-snRNP Core Proteins
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
SMN, the product of the spinal muscular atrophy gene, binds preferentially to dimethylarginine-containing protein targets.
pubmed:affiliation
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't