Functional studies of the human regulatory protein Ki-1/57 and its interaction partners

Author(s)

Kaliandra de Almeida Gonçalves

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia
• Defense date: 2011-12-07

Examining board members

Jörg Kobarg; Claudio Chrysostomo Werneck; Edmilson Ricardo Gonçalves; Sandra Martha Gomes Dias; Ana Carolina de Mattos Zeri

• Advisor: Jörg Kobarg

Abstract

The protein Ki-1/57 was discovered through cross reactivity of the monoclonal antibody Ki-1 in cells of Hodgkin lymphoma. Previously studies demonstrated that Ki-1/57 interacts with RACK-1 protein, undergoes phosphorylation by PKCs and methylation by PRMT1, an arginine methyltransferase that modulates several RNA binding proteins. Studies have shown that Ki- 1/57 is able to control the pre-mRNA splicing of the viral E1A gene. SAXS analysis, analytical gel filtration and analytical ultracentrifugation indicate a rather elongated and flexible structure to build C-terminal 6xhis-(122-413) Ki-1/57. Limited proteolysis assays also showed a low composition of stable and compact hydrophobic cores, suggesting that the protein is intrinsically unstructured, it could explain the wide array of protein partners with which it is able to interact. In this work we identified the interaction of Ki-1/57 proteins with Family fragile X, and its location on Ribosomal profile, besides being able to increase the translation when tethered to the reporter gene Luciferase. Another important observation is that Ki-1/57 is sumoylated in vitro and in vivo, the targets of this lysine sumoylated were identified, and the not somoylated protein is unable to act in the pre-mRNA splicing of E1A. More experiments were made to characterize the interaction of RACK1 with Ki-1/57. The interaction between the two proteins is strong, possessing a dissociation constant of 0.7 ?M and follows the stoichiometry of 1:1 as observed by sedimentation equilibrium experiments. Analytical ultracentrifugation experiments showed that human RACK1 has similar hydrodynamic properties to that predicted to homology model, and that in solution it is found in its monomeric form, with a slight tendency to aggregation. Overexpression of Ki-1/57 and CGI-55 caused changes in 413 and 217 genes respectively, which were mostly negative regulated. Most genes that were inhibited by overexpression of Ki-1/57 are involved in cell proliferation, and expressed in different types tumors. The MTS data obtained confirm a decrease in cell proliferation through overexpressing of Ki-1/57 and CGI-55 protein. Based on the results of this study new functions for Ki-1/57 protein have been described such as: the influence of Ki- 1/57 in cell proliferation, in protein translation and the important role that the post translational modification, such as sumoylation, represents so that the protein Ki-1/57 performs its function (AU)