Abstract:
:Neurofibromatosis type I (NF1) and Legius syndrome are rare inherited disorders that share diagnostic symptoms including dermal abnormalities like axillary and inguinal freckling and café au lait spots. In addition, patients suffering from NF1 have a demanding risk for the development of severe tumors of the peripheral and central nervous system among other NF1-specific symptoms. NF1 and Legius syndrome are caused by alterations in the NF1 and SPRED1 genes encoding the Ras inhibitors neurofibromin and Spred1 (sprouty related EVH1 domain-containing protein), respectively. Neurofibromin functions as a Ras-specific GTPase-activating protein (Ras-GAP), and Spred1 enhances Ras inactivation by recruiting neurofibromin from the cytosol to membrane-anchored Ras. In a previous study, we mapped the Spred binding site to the GAP-related domain of neurofibromin (NF1-GAP) and identified the GAPex subdomain as critical for Spred1 binding. Here, we characterize the binding site of these proteins in more detail focusing on a mutant Spred1 variant carrying a pathogenic missense mutation (threonine 102 to arginine). Introduction of this mutation, which locates at the N-terminal EVH1 domain of Spred1, weakens the interaction with neurofibromin by about 3 orders of magnitude without perturbing the protein fold, and the binding site of NF1-GAP on the mutant Spred1(EVH1) variant can be identified by NMR spectroscopy. Taken together, our data provide structural insight into the interaction of Spred1 and neurofibromin and characterize the structural or functional consequence of selected patient-derived mutations associated with Legius syndrome.
journal_name
J Mol Bioljournal_title
Journal of molecular biologyauthors
Führer S,Tollinger M,Dunzendorfer-Matt Tdoi
10.1016/j.jmb.2019.07.038subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-09-06 00:00:00pages
3889-3899issue
19eissn
0022-2836issn
1089-8638pii
S0022-2836(19)30500-5journal_volume
431pub_type
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