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Family: Piwi (PF02171)

Summary: Piwi domain

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Argonaute Edit Wikipedia article

An argonaute protein from Pyrococcus furiosus.

Argonaute proteins are the catalytic components of the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), the protein complex responsible for the gene silencing phenomenon known as RNA interference (RNAi). Argonaute proteins bind small interfering RNA (siRNA) fragments and have endonuclease activity directed against messenger RNA (mRNA) strands that are complementary to their bound siRNA fragment. The proteins are also responsible for selection of the guide strand and destruction of the passenger strand of the siRNA substrate.[1]

The proteins have been identified in high concentrations in regions of the cell's cytoplasm known as cytoplasmic bodies, to which mRNA decay is also localized.[2]

References

  1. ^ Rand TA, Petersen S, Du F, Wang X. (2005). Argonaute2 cleaves the anti-guide strand of siRNA during RISC activation. Cell 123(4):621-9.
  2. ^ Sen GL, Blau HM. (2005). Argonaute 2/RISC resides in sites of mammalian mRNA decay known as cytoplasmic bodies. Nat Cell Biol 7(6):633-6.

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Piwi Edit Wikipedia article

The piwi domain of an argonaute protein with bound siRNA, components of the RNA-induced silencing complex that mediates gene silencing by RNA interference.

The piwi (sometimes also PIWI) class of genes was originally identified as encoding regulatory proteins responsible for maintaining incomplete differentiation in stem cells and maintaining the stability of cell division rates in germ line cells.[1] Piwi proteins are highly conserved across evolutionary lineages and are present in both plants and animals.[2] One of the major human homologs, whose upregulation is implicated in the formation of tumors such as seminomas, is called hiwi.[3]

The piwi domain is a protein domain homologous to piwi proteins and present in a large number of nucleic acid-binding proteins, especially those that bind and cleave RNA. The best-studied such family of proteins is the argonaute family; argonautes are RNase H-like enzymes that carry out the catalytic functions of the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC). In the well-known cellular process of RNA interference, the argonaute protein in the RISC complex binds siRNA or miRNA molecules generated by the ribonuclease dicer, and cleaves complementary base pairing messenger RNA, destroying it and preventing its translation into a protein. Crystallized piwi domains have a conserved basic binding site for the 5' end of bound RNA; in the case of argonaute proteins binding siRNA strands, the last unpaired nucleotide base of the siRNA is also stabilized by base stacking interactions between the base and neighboring tyrosine residues.[4]

References

  1. ^ Cox DN, Chao A, Lin H. (2000). piwi encodes a nucleoplasmic factor whose activity modulates the number and division rate of germline stem cells. Development 127(3):503-14. PMID 10631171
  2. ^ Cox DN, Chao A, Baker J, Chang L, Qiao D, Lin H. (1998). A novel class of evolutionarily conserved genes defined by piwi are essential for stem cell self-renewal. Genes Dev 12(23):3715-27. PMID 9851978
  3. ^ Qiao D, Zeeman AM, Deng W, Looijenga LH, Lin H. (2002). Molecular characterization of hiwi, a human member of the piwi gene family whose overexpression is correlated to seminomas. Oncogene 21(25):3988-99. PMID 12037681
  4. ^ Ma J, Yuan Y, Meister G, Pei Y, Tuschl T, Patel D (2005). "Structural basis for 5'-end-specific recognition of guide RNA by the A. fulgidus Piwi protein". Nature 434 (7033): 666-70. PMID 15800629

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This domain is found in the protein Piwi and its relatives. The function of this domain is the dsRNA guided hydrolysis of ssRNA. Determination of the crystal structure of Argonaute reveals that PIWI is an RNase H domain, and identifies Argonaute as Slicer, the enzyme that cleaves mRNA in the RNAi RISC complex [2]. In addition, Mg+2 dependence and production of 3'-OH and 5' phosphate products are shared characteristics of RNaseH and RISC. The PIWI domain core has a tertiary structure belonging to the RNase H family of enzymes. RNase H fold proteins all have a five-stranded mixed beta-sheet surrounded by helices. By analogy to RNase H enzymes which cleave single-stranded RNA guided by the DNA strand in an RNA/DNA hybrid, the PIWI domain can be inferred to cleave single-stranded RNA, for example mRNA, guided by double stranded siRNA.

Literature references

  1. Cerutti L, Mian N, Bateman A; , Trends Biochem Sci 2000;25:481-482.: Domains in gene silencing and cell differentiation proteins: the novel PAZ domain and redefinition of the Piwi domain. PUBMED:11050429 EPMC:11050429

  2. Song JJ, Smith SK, Hannon GJ, Joshua-Tor L; , Science 2004;305:1434-1437.: Crystal structure of Argonaute and its implications for RISC slicer activity. PUBMED:15284453 EPMC:15284453


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InterPro entry IPR003165

The piwi domain [ PUBMED:11050429 ] is a protein domain found in piwi proteins and a large number of related nucleic acid-binding proteins, especially those that bind and cleave RNA. The function of the domain is double stranded-RNA-guided hydrolysis of single stranded-RNA, as has been determined in the argonaute family of related proteins [ PUBMED:15284453 ].

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Seed source: Bateman A
Previous IDs: none
Type: Family
Sequence Ontology: SO:0100021
Author: Bateman A , Hammonds G
Number in seed: 15
Number in full: 14038
Average length of the domain: 265.1 aa
Average identity of full alignment: 37 %
Average coverage of the sequence by the domain: 34.14 %

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Gathering cut-off 28.9 28.9
Trusted cut-off 28.9 28.9
Noise cut-off 28.8 28.8
Model length: 302
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A0A044QXY7 View 3D Structure Click here
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