The Patterning and Proportion of Charged Residues in the Arginine-Rich Mixed-Charge Domain Determine the Membrane-Less Organelle Targeted by the Protein

Tamami Miyagi, Rio Yamazaki, Koji Ueda, Satoshi Narumi, Yuhei Hayamizu, Hiroshi Uji-i, Masahiko Kuroda, Kohsuke Kanekura

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Membrane-less organelles (MLOs) are formed by biomolecular liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS). Proteins with charged low-complexity domains (LCDs) are prone to phase separation and localize to MLOs, but the mechanism underlying the distributions of such proteins to specific MLOs remains poorly understood. Recently, proteins with Arg-enriched mixed-charge domains (R-MCDs), primarily composed of R and Asp (D), were found to accumulate in nuclear speckles via LLPS. However, the process by which R-MCDs selectively incorporate into nuclear speckles is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the patterning of charged amino acids and net charge determines the targeting of specific MLOs, including nuclear speckles and the nucleolus, by proteins. The redistribution of R and D residues from an alternately sequenced pattern to uneven blocky sequences caused a shift in R-MCD distribution from nuclear speckles to the nucleolus. In addition, the incorporation of basic residues in the R-MCDs promoted their localization to the MLOs and their apparent accumulation in the nucleolus. The R-MCD peptide with alternating amino acids did not undergo LLPS, whereas the blocky R-MCD peptide underwent LLPS with affinity to RNA, acidic poly-Glu, and the acidic nucleolar protein nucleophosmin, suggesting that the clustering of R residues helps avoid their neutralization by D residues and eventually induces R-MCD migration to the nucleolus. Therefore, the distribution of proteins to nuclear speckles requires the proximal positioning of D and R for the mutual neutralization of their charges.

本文言語English
論文番号7658
ジャーナルInternational journal of molecular sciences
23
14
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2022 7月
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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 触媒
  • 分子生物学
  • 分光学
  • コンピュータ サイエンスの応用
  • 物理化学および理論化学
  • 有機化学
  • 無機化学

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