moving pieces in a risc loading complex
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Moving Pieces in a RISC Loading Complex
Hong-Wei Wang (Yale)David Taylor (Yale)
Bunpote Siridechadilok*Jennifer Doudna
Ian MacRae (Scripps)Cameron Noland
Enbo MaKarin Felderer
*(NCGEB, Thailand)
Gregory et al, Cell 2005
Dicer (~200 kDa): RNaseIII enzyme – dsRNA processingTRBP (~50 kDa): dsRNA binding protein – sensor for strand selectionArgonaute2 (Ago2, ~100 kDa): “slicer” – target mRNA cleavage
human RISC-Loading Complex (RLC)
Ago with guide siRNAYang et al., Nature 2008
Ago with guide siRNA & target RNAYang et al., Nature 2008
Crystal Structures of Argonaute
Ago with externally bound siRNAYuan et al., Structure 2006
First Ago StructureSong et al, Science 2004
WT dicer model reproj
ΔDEAD synthetic model reproj
ΔDEAD ref-free class average
Localization of DExH/D domain in human Dicer
90o 90ocap
base branch
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RLC Structure?Unstable RLC on EM grid
Kd: 0.2~1 µM Diluted conc. 30~50 nM
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Sorting of Heterogeneity by Supervised Classification
Crosslinked human RISC loading complex
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Dicer
Ago2
TRBP
Hong-Wei Wang (Yale)David Taylor (Yale)
Bunpote Siridechadilok*Jennifer Doudna
Ian MacRae (Scripps)Cameron Noland
Enbo MaKarin Felderer
*(NCGEB, Thailand)