Quantitative analyses of cryptochrome-mBMAL1 interactions: mechanistic insights into the transcriptional regulation of the mammalian circadian clock.

ABSTRACT: The mammalian cryptochromes mCRY1 and mCRY2 act as transcriptional repressors within the 24-h transcription-translational feedback loop of the circadian clock. The C-terminal tail and a preceding predicted coiled coil (CC) of the mCRYs as well as the C-terminal region of the transcription factor mBMAL1 are involved in transcriptional feedback repression. Here we show by fluorescence polarization and isothermal titration calorimetry that purified mCRY1/2CCtail proteins form stable heterodimeric complexes with two C-terminal mBMAL1 fragments. The longer mBMAL1 fragment (BMAL490) includes Lys-537, which is rhythmically acetylated by mCLOCK in vivo. mCRY1 (but not mCRY2) has a lower affinity to BMAL490 than to the shorter mBMAL1 fragment (BMAL577) and a K537Q mutant version of BMAL490. Using p

SUBMITTER: Czarna A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3121388 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature