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3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap
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Three‐dimensional (3D) domain swapping creates a bond between two or more protein molecules as they exchange their identical domains. Since the term '3D domain swapping' was first used to describe the dimeric structure of diphtheria toxin, the database of domain‐swapped proteins has greatly expanded. Analyses of the now about 40 structurally characterized cases of domain‐swapped proteins reveal that most swapped domains are at either the N or C terminus and that the swapped domains are diverse in their primary and secondary structures. In addition to tabulating domain‐swapped proteins, we describe in detail several examples of 3D domain swapping which show the swapping of more than one domain in a protein, the structural evidence for 3D domain swapping in amyloid proteins, and the flexibility of hinge loops. We also discuss the physiological relevance of 3D domain swapping and a possible mechanism for 3D domain swapping. The present state of knowledge leads us to suggest that 3D domain swapping can occur under appropriate conditions in any protein with an unconstrained terminus. As domains continue to swap, this review attempts not only a summary of the known domain‐swapped proteins, but also a framework for understanding future findings of 3D domain swapping.
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This review summarizes about 40 structurally characterized 3D domain-swapped proteins, emphasizing diverse swapped domains, flexible hinge loops, and examples including RNase A, T7 helicase, human prion, and cystatin C. It proposes that 3D domain swapping can occur under appropriate conditions in any protein with an unconstrained terminus and may relate to oligomerization, allostery, and amyloid formation.
Key findings
- About 40 domain-swapped proteins have known structures; all swapped domains except one are from either the N or C terminus, and swapped domains vary widely in size, sequence, and secondary structure, with no specific sequence motif found.
- RNase A can swap both N- and C-terminal domains: structures include the N-terminal swapped dimer (2.1 Å), C-terminal swapped dimer (1.75 Å), and cyclic C-terminal swapped trimer (2.2 Å); RNase A is the first protein found to form both linear and cyclic domain-swapped oligomers.
- Blood coagulant factor IX/X-binding protein is the only known example of 3D domain swapping in the middle of the molecule and the only known domain-swapped heterodimer; T7 gene 4 ring helicase forms open oligomeric domain swapping along a six-fold screw axis and requires swapping for hexamerization and activity.
- Human prion and human cystatin C form domain-swapped dimers and are amyloidogenic, suggesting domain swapping and amyloid formation may share common intermediates; physiological relevance is supported for some proteins, such as RNase A dimerization at pH 6.5 and 37°C with a dissociation constant of ∼2 mM, but considered artifact for others such as barnase at pH 4.5 and truncated TrkA Domain 5.
Methods
- Review and structural synthesis of domain-swapped proteins, tabulating bona fide examples, quasi-domain-swapped proteins, and candidates in Tables 1–3 with PDB codes, residue counts, swapped domains, hinge loops, and functions.
- Compares crystal and NMR structures plus biochemical data from cited studies, with detailed discussion of six examples: IX/X-binding protein, RNase A trimers, glyoxalase I, T7 helicase, human prion, and human cystatin C.
- Main analysis is qualitative structural comparison and synthesis of a free-energy/mechanism model for 3D domain swapping.
Limitations
- The paper states that the mechanism of 3D domain swapping remains elusive, few studies have examined it, and it is unclear whether the domain-swapped dimer is the building block for amyloid fibers.
- The paper states that RNase A tetramer structures are unknown and models are hypothetical; glyoxalase I C-terminal domain swapping is ambiguous because there are two ways to define the monomer, and the crystal structure of the monomer is needed.
- Evident from the text: this is a review without new experimental data, and some hinge-loop residues in candidate proteins are speculative and marked with question marks.
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“Analyses of the now about 40 structurally characterized cases of domain-swapped proteins reveal that most swapped domains are at either the N or C terminus”
- Also stated in: § Advances in 3D domain swapping · plain
“One common feature of these domain-swapped proteins is that all the swapped domains (except in one protein) are from either the N terminus or the C terminus.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Abstract
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“the swapped domains are diverse in their primary and secondary structures”
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“The swapped domains have diverse sizes and sequences.”
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“The swapped domains also have diverse secondary struc-tures.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Abstract
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“Several recent structural studies of 3D domain swapping further support the flexibility of the hinge loops.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Flexibility and diversity of the hinge loops
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“A common feature is that when the hinge loop forms a -strand or an ␣-helix, the oligomeric form is favored over the monomer.”
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“The only exception found to date is blood coagulant factors IX/X-binding protein (IX/X-bp, Mizuno et al. 1997).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > IX/X-binding protein
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“No specific sequence motif can be found among these domains.”
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“IX/X-bp is the only known example of 3D domain swapping taking place in the middle of the molecule, in contrast to other domain-swapped proteins, in which domain swapping takes place at either the N or C terminus.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > IX/X-binding protein
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“One advance in understanding 3D domain swapping is that more than one domain in a protein can swap.”
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“Thus, structural studies of 3D domain swapping in RNase A show that a protein can have domains swapped at both the N-and C-termini, and that these two types of swapping can occur simultaneously in one oligomer.”
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“The present state of knowledge leads us to suggest that 3D domain swapping can occur under appropriate conditions in any protein with an unconstrained terminus.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Abstract
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“RNase A forms a dimer during lyophilization in acetic acid (Crestfield et al. 1962).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
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“suggesting that a small amount of RNase A dimer does exist in vivo (Park and Raines 2000).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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“Therefore, the diverse sizes and sequences of the swapped domains suggest that the activation energy for 3D domain swapping varies among domain-swapped proteins.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Diversity of the swapped domains
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“Single point mutations at the closed interface of the suppressor of cyclin dependent kinase 1 (p13suc1) shifted the equilibrium between monomer and dimer (Schymkowitz et al. 2001).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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“Therefore, the same hinge loop adopts different conformations in the monomer, the C-terminal swapped dimer, and the cyclic C-terminal swapped trimer of RNase A, showing the great flexibility of this hinge loop.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Flexibility and diversity of the hinge loops
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“RNase A was reported to dimerize at pH 6.5 and 37°C, similar to the physiological conditions.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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“Because domain swapping takes place in the middle of IX/ X-bp, there are two hinge loops in each subunit.”
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“Thus, IX/X-bp is quasidomainswapped.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > IX/X-binding protein
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“Based on these biochemical data, we regard human Glx I as a protein with two domains swapped, as proposed by Cameron et al. (1997).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Glyoxalase I
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- Not checked yetcites Cameron et al. 1997
- Not checked yetcites Saint-Jean et al. 1998
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“Based on the structures of the N-and C-terminal swapped dimers, a trimeric model with both types of swapping (Fig. 2) was proposed (Liu et al. 2001).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
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“RNase A also forms tetramers (Gotte et al. 1999).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
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“Thus, RNase A represents the first protein found to form both linear and cyclic domain-swapped oligomers.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > RNase A linear N-and C-terminal swapped trimer and cyclic C-terminal swapped trimer
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“RNase A forms dimers and trimers during lyophilization in acetic acid (Crestfield et al. 1962;Gotte et al. 1999).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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- Not checked yetcites Crestfield et al. 1962
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“RNase A also forms trimers (Gotte et al. 1999).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
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“Therefore, based on its sequence, a protein cannot be predicted to be domain-swapped or not.”
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“The structures of the RNase A trimers support the earlier proposal that a protein can form a linear or cyclic oligomer by 3D domain swapping.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > RNase A linear N-and C-terminal swapped trimer and cyclic C-terminal swapped trimer
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“RNase A oligomers display higher enzyme activity on double-strand RNA than does the monomer (Gotte et al. 1999).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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“more direct evidence of the physiological relevance of 3D domain swapping in DT comes from the crystal structure of the complex of DT and a domain of its receptor showing that DT forms domain-swapped dimer upon binding to its receptor at neutral pH (Louie et al. 1997).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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“Since high concentration of a protein favors 3D domain swapping, macromolecular crowding may facilitate 3D domain swapping in vivo.”
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“This energy barrier can be reduced under certain circumstances, such as change of pH, change of temperature, mutation in the protein, presence of denaturants, and binding of a ligand.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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“These four domains may block the swapping of the N-terminal strand of Domain 5 and result in a monomer of the intact molecule.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Artifact
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“Macromolecular crowding also stabilizes protein oligomers (Eggers and Valentine 2001).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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- Not checked yetcites Eggers and Valentine 2001
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“Diphtheria toxin (DT), which enters cells by endocytosis, was first found to form a domain-swapped dimer upon lowering pH (Carroll et al. 1986;Bennett et al. 1994a).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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- Not checked yetcites Carroll et al. 1986
- Not checked yetcites Bennett et al. 1994a
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“It was reported that there is a strain at the hinge loop of suc1 which controls the equilibrium of the monomer and the dimer through 3D domain swapping (Rousseau et al. 2001).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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“Therefore, there is a high energy barrier between the closed monomer and the domain-swapped oligomer.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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“However, when this domain is phosphorylated, it exists as a monomer.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Artifact
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- Not checked yetcites Lewis et al. 2000
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“In addition, several domain-swapped proteins are fragments of their complete molecules, whereas the intact molecule is a monomer.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Artifact
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“Second, hinge loops may form new interactions in the domain-swapped dimer, which favor dimerization.”
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“Therefore, by changing the hinge loop or engineering the open interface, one can change the equilibrium between the monomer and the domain-swapped oligomer.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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“Third, new interactions at the open interface make the domain-swapped oligomer more favorable thermodynamically (Kuhlman et al. 2001;Liu et al. 2001;Rousseau et al. 2001;Schymkowitz et al. 2001).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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- Not checked yetcites Kuhlman et al. 2001
- Not checked yetcites Liu et al. 2001
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“However, the domain-swapped dimer is incapable of binding to the natural ligand (Urfer et al. 1995).”
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- Not checked yetcites Urfer et al. 1995
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“suggesting that ligand binding may regulate the functions of its receptor through 3D domain swapping.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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“After the hinge loop is shortened, Domain 1 of CD2 (Murray et al. 1995), staphylococcal nuclease (Green et al. 1995), and single chain Fv (Kortt et al. 1994;Perisic et al. 1994) form domain-swapped dimers.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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- Not checked yetcites Murray et al. 1995
- Not checked yetcites Green et al. 1995
- Not checked yetcites Kortt et al. 1994
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“First, the greater entropy of the monomer makes it more favored thermodynamically.”
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“Domain 5 alone is domainswapped at its N-terminal strand (Ultsch et al. 1999).”
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- Not checked yetcites Ultsch et al. 1999
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“The contradictory fact is that the phosphorylated whole Spo0A is a dimer in solution (Lewis et al. 2000).”
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- Not checked yetcites Lewis et al. 2000
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“Based on the monomeric and dimeric structures of DT and the conditions to form its dimer, a free energy diagram was proposed for the pathways of 3D domain swapping (Bennett et al. 1995).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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“Therefore, even though the dissociation constant for the dimer of RNase A is greater than the concentration of RNase A in bovine pancreas, the amount of dimers formed in vivo may be higher than the amount calculated from the dissociation constant, due to macromolecular crowding.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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“The N-terminal domain of sporulation response regulator Spo0A forms a domain-swapped dimer at pH 4.0.”
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- Not checked yetcites Lewis et al. 2000
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“Ligand binding to suc1, which is distant from the hinge loop, also shifted the equilibrium”
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- Not checked yetcites Schymkowitz et al. 2001
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“This effect was seen during the crystallization of the RNase A minor trimer, which is stabilized by polyethylene glycol (PEG) 10,000 even at pH 3.5 (Liu et al. 2002).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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- Not checked yetcites Liu et al. 2002
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“At pH 4.5, it forms a domain-swapped trimer (Zegers et al. 1999).”
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“| chimera (Canals et al. 2001) | | | | | RNase A and BS-RNase) | |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
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- Not checked yetcites Canals et al. 2001
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“| SigE dimer (Luo et al. 2001) | 1K3S | 113 | | | Molecular chaperone in type | |”
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- Not checked yetcites Luo et al. 2001
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“| Fyn-SH3 monomer (Musacchio | 1FYN | 62 | | 112-118 | Signal transduction | |”
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- Not checked yetcites Musacchio et al. 1994
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“These two prolines control the balance of the monomeric and the dimeric forms by the strains at the hinge loop.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Rousseau et al. 2001
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“| Monomer of two repeats of | 1CUN | 211 | | | Cytoskeletal protein | |”
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- Not checked yetcites Grum et al. 1999
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“In this review, we have summarized structures showing that 3D domain swapping takes place in proteins involved in diverse biological functions.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
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“However, studies on p13suc1, CD2, and Protein L suggest that these proteins are completely unfolded on the pathway to 3D domain swapping (Hayes et al. 1999;Kuhlman et al. 2001;Rousseau et al. 2001).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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- Not checked yetcites Hayes et al. 1999
- Not checked yetcites Kuhlman et al. 2001
- Not checked yetcites Rousseau et al. 2001
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“| Grb2 adaptor (SH2 + SH3) | 1GR1 | 217 | | | Signal transduction | |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Maignan et al. 1995
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“On the other hand, lengthening the hinge loop of the domainswapped dimer of cro repressor leads to the monomer formation (Albright et al. 1996).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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- Not checked yetcites Albright et al. 1996
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“Structural studies of DT and RNase A suggest that 3D domain swapping occurs in these proteins through partial unfolding of the monomer, to a core whose structure remains intact and to intact terminal domains free to move and to swap (Bennett et al. 1995;Liu et al. 2001).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > The mechanism of 3D domain swapping
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- Not checked yetcites Bennett et al. 1995
- Not checked yetcites Liu et al. 2001
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“To date, about 40 domain-swapped proteins have known structures.”
- Also stated in: § New examples of 3D domain swapping in proteins · plain
“To date, about 40 domain-swapped proteins have been reported.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Advances in 3D domain swapping
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- Rests on an assumption: The set of about 40 structurally characterized domain-swapped proteins is representative of domain-swapped proteins generally.
- Also stated in: § New examples of 3D domain swapping in proteins · plain
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In the paper
“In addition, IX/X-bp is the only known example of a domain-swapped heterodimer; all other domain-swapped proteins are homooligomers.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > IX/X-binding protein
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- Rests on an assumption: The set of about 40 structurally characterized domain-swapped proteins is representative of domain-swapped proteins generally.
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In the paper
“Structures of both dimers (Fig. 2) reveal that the N-terminal helix is swapped in the less abundant dimer (the N-terminal swapped dimer, previously named the minor dimer) (Liu et al. 1998), whereas the Cterminal strand is swapped in the other dimer (the C-terminal swapped dimer, previously named the major dimer) (Liu et al. 2001).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Liu et al. 1998
- Not checked yetcites Liu et al. 2001
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“Further studies showed that there are two types of dimers of RNase A, formed with one dimer more abundant than the other dimer (Libonati et al. 1996;Gotte et al. 1999).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
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- Not checked yetcites Libonati et al. 1996
- Not checked yetcites Gotte et al. 1999
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In the paper
“In summary, the diversity of the swapped domains indicates that 3D domain swapping does not depend on the protein sequence or secondary structure.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Diversity of the swapped domains
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In the paper
“Therefore, 3D domain swapping is required for the hexamerization and the activity of T7 helicase.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Glyoxalase I
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“The dissociation constant for the dimer at this condition is ∼2 mM, which is about 20-fold greater than the concentration of RNase A in the bovine pancreas”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Park and Raines 2000
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“These results suggest that 3D domain swapping in RNase A exists in vivo and may play some physiological role.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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In the paper
“By examining domain-swapped proteins, we conclude that domain swapping is physiologically relevant in some proteins, but not in others.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance or crystallographic artifact?
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“T7 helicase provides the structural evidence for 3D domain swapping in a hexamer, supporting the proposal that 3D domain swapping is a mechanism for extended protein oligomerization (Bennett et al. 1995).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Glyoxalase I
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Bennett et al. 1995
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In the paper
“Although it is unclear whether the domain-swapped dimer is the building block for these fibers, these studies show that domain swapping and amyloid formation may share common intermediates, and thus suggest that 3D domain swapping is a possible mechanism for amyloid formation.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Glyoxalase I
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In the paper
“This diversity shows that 3D domain swapping does not require or prefer certain types of secondary structure.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Diversity of the swapped domains
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“In the less abundant trimer, only the C-terminal strand is swapped, and the structure is cyclic (cyclic C-terminal swapped trimer, previously named the minor trimer, Fig. 2) (Liu et al. 2002).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
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- Not checked yetcites Liu et al. 2002
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In the paper
“In summary, the”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Diversity of the swapped domains
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In the paper
“Thus, RNase A oligomers display two basic types of 3D domain swapping, and show that with two types of swapping, a protein can form a variety of oligomers.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
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In the paper
“Further biochemical studies support this model and indicate that the model belongs to the more abundant trimer (linear N-and C-terminal swapped trimer, previously named the major trimer).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Swapping of more than one domain in a protein
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Liu et al. 2002
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In the paper
“3D domain swapping in bovine seminal ribonuclease (BS-RNase, sharing 80% sequence identity with RNase A, Mazzarella et al. 1993) was reported to be necessary for its immunosuppression activity and allostery activity (Piccoli et al. 1988;Cafaro et al. 1995)”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Piccoli et al. 1988
- Not checked yetcites Cafaro et al. 1995
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In the paper
“Cyanovirin-N (Yang et al. 1999) was also crystallized under low pH and was shown to be domain-swapped.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Artifact
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Yang et al. 1999
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In the paper
“These proteins include BS-RNase (Mazzarella et al. 1993), T7 helicase (Singleton et al. 2000), cro repressor (Anderson et al. 1981), phosphoenolpyruvate mutase (Huang et al. 1999), T4 endonuclease VII (Raaijmakers et al. 1999), IX/X-binding protein (Mizuno et al. 1997), and bleomycin resistance protein (Dumas et al. 1994).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Mazzarella et al. 1993
- Not checked yetcites Singleton et al. 2000
- Not checked yetcites Anderson et al. 1981
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In the paper
“These studies provide evidence for 3D domain swapping as a mechanism for allostery and signal sensing in a macromolecule, and therefore for regulating biological functions of proteins.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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In the paper
“The mutations that shift the equilibrium are distant from the hinge loop, suggesting that the strain at the hinge loop can be “sensed” by the remote mutation sites.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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In the paper
“3D domain swapping regulated by ligands was reported in glyoxalase I (Saint-Jean et al. 1998) and p13suc1 (Schymkowitz et al. 2001), where the equilibrium between the monomer and the dimer is regulated by glutathione and phosphopeptide, respectively”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Saint-Jean et al. 1998
- Not checked yetcites Schymkowitz et al. 2001
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In the paper
“Macromolecular crowding increases protein local concentration and facilitates protein oligomerization (Cole and Ralston 1994;Lindner and Ralston 1995;Rivas et al. 1999).”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Cole and Ralston 1994
- Not checked yetcites Lindner and Ralston 1995
- Not checked yetcites Rivas et al. 1999
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In the paper
“Several domain-swapped oligomers are obtained under nonphysiological low pH, and the biological functions of the oligomers are unknown.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Artifact
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In the paper
“these examples suggest that smaller domains form domain-swapped oligomers more easily than larger domains, and may do so under nonphysiological conditions.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Artifact
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In the paper
“However, the active forms of these proteins are domain-swapped, suggesting that their 3D domain swapping is related to their biological functions in vivo.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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In the paper
“Thus, macromolecular crowding in cells increases the population of domain-swapped oligomers and thus in a general way adds support to the possible physiological relevance to 3D domain swapping.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Physiological relevance
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In the paper
“Therefore, domain swapping in Domain 5 is regarded as a consequence of the truncation of the whole protein (Ultsch et al. 1999) and is not of physiological significance.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Artifact
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Ultsch et al. 1999
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“| T4 endonuclease VII dimer (Raaijmakers | 1EN7 | 157 | 60 | 63-72 (?) | Mismatch repair, Resolving | N-terminal helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Raaijmakers et al. 1999
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In the paper
“| Dimer of one repeat of ␣-spectrin | 2SPC | 107 | 32 | 72-75 | Cytoskeletal protein | C-terminal ␣-helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Yan et al. 1993
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In the paper
“| Designed coiled coil dimer (Ogihara | 1G6U | 48 | 14 | 33-34 (?) | Unknown | C-terminal ␣-helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Ogihara et al. 2001
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In the paper
“| Cab-type  class carbonic anhydrase | 1G5C | 170 | 12 | 13-23 (?) | Catalyzing reversible hydration | N-terminal ␣-helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Strop et al. 2001
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In the paper
“In several proteins, 3D domain swapping is found in the active form of these proteins, whereas in other proteins, domain swapping seems an artifact of truncation of the whole molecules.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
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In the paper
“| CesT dimer (Luo et al. 2001) | 1K3E | 156 | 32 | 33-36 | Molecular chaperone in type | N-terminal ␣-helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Luo et al. 2001
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In the paper
“| dUTPase trimer (Larsson et al. 1996) | 1DUD | 136 | 10 | 125-126 (?) dUTP hydrolysis | C-terminal strand |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Larsson et al. 1996
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In the paper
“| Citrate synthase dimer from chicken heart | 1CTS | 433 | 10 | 417-423 (?) Citrate synthesis | C-terminal helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Remington et al. 1982
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In the paper
“| Heat shock protein 33 dimer | 1HW7 | 255 | 75 | 178-184 (?) Molecular chaperone | C-terminal helices |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Vijayalakshmi et al. 2001
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In the paper
“| Bleomycin resistance protein dimer | 1BYL | 122 | 8 | 9-11 (?) | Bleomycin resistance | N-terminal -strand |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Dumas et al. 1994
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In the paper
“| Grb2-SH2 domain dimer (Schiering | 1FYR | 93 | 27 | 121-123 | Binding phosphorylated | C-terminal ␣-helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Schiering et al. 2000
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In the paper
“| BTB domain of PLZF (Ahmad et al. | 1BUO | 120 | 12 | 13-23 (?) | Evolutionarily conserved | N-terminal -strand |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Ahmad et al. 1998
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In the paper
“| Phosphoenolpyruvate mutase dimer | 1PGM | 295 | 35 | 240-260 (?) Converting | C-terminal helices |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Huang et al. 1999
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In the paper
“| T7 gene 4-ring helicase hexamer | 1E0J | 326 | 40 | 283-305 (?) Separation of nucleic acid | N-terminal ␣-helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Singleton et al. 2000
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In the paper
“| SH3 domain of Eps8 (Kishan et al. | 1AOJ | 65 | 26 | 34-39 | Recognition of proline-rich | C-terminal |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Kishan et al. 1997
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In the paper
“The independence of 3D domain swapping from protein sequence, secondary structure and hinge loop suggests that any protein can be domain-swapped under appropriate conditions where the terminal domain of the protein is unconstrained.”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
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In the paper
“| Catalase dimer (beef liver) (Fita and | 7CAT | 500 | 65 | 66-70 (?) | H 2 O 2 hydrolysis | N-terminal helices |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Fita and Rossmann 1985
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In the paper
“| Simian virus 40 oligomer (Stehle et al. | 1SVA | 361 | 61 | 296-300 (?) Virus coat protein | C-terminal helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Stehle et al. 1996
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In the paper
“| RecA hexamer from E. coli (Story et al. | 2REB | 352 | 26 | 27-39 (?) | DNA recombination and repair | N-terminal ␣-helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Story et al. 1992
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In the paper
“| T7 gene 4-ring helicase fragment | 1CR0 | 296 | 12 | 283-305 (?) Unknown | N-terminal ␣-helix |”
§ 3D domain swapping: As domains continue to swap > Summary
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Sawaya et al. 1999
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The set of about 40 structurally characterized domain-swapped proteins is representative of domain-swapped proteins generally.
“Analyses of the now about 40 structurally characterized cases of domain-swapped proteins reveal that most swapped domains are at either the N or C terminus”
“To date, about 40 domain-swapped proteins have known structures.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The biochemical behavior of Pseudomonas putida Glx I (55% sequence identity to human Glx I) can be used to infer the active-site completeness and domain-swapping state of human Glx I.
“Biochemical data show an equilibrium of monomer and dimer in Glx I from Pseudomonas putida (55% sequence identity to human Glx I), and both the monomer and the dimer are active (Saint-Jean et al. 1998).”
“Based on these biochemical data, we regard human Glx I as a protein with two domains swapped, as proposed by Cameron et al. (1997).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Thermodynamic activity exceeds concentration.
“That is, thermodynamic activity exceeds concentration.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The greater entropy of the monomer makes it more favored thermodynamically.
“First, the greater entropy of the monomer makes it more favored thermodynamically.”
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“This is an unusual target in that there are very extensive inter-subunit interactions, including a domain swap21 in which part of the fold of one monomer occupies the corresponding position of a neighboring one.”
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C-terminal-swapped trimer is called N-terminal-swapped
MinorThe sentence calls the cyclic RNase A trimer N-terminal-swapped but then says it swaps C-terminal strands. Elsewhere, the paper identifies the cyclic trimer as C-terminal-swapped.
“In addition, the crystal structure of the RNase A N-terminal swapped trimer shows that it is a cyclic molecule, with swapping of the C-terminal strands (Fig. 2; Liu et al. 2002).”
“In the less abundant trimer, only the C-terminal strand is swapped, and the structure is cyclic (cyclic C-terminal swapped trimer, previously named the minor trimer, Fig. 2) (Liu et al. 2002).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Liu, Y., & Eisenberg, D.
- Affiliations
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
- Corresponding author
- Eisenberg, David
- Venue
- Protein Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-06
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1285-1299
- ISSN
- 0961-8368 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-896X
- PMC
- PMC2373619
- OpenAlex
- W2160082320
- Cited by
- 684
- References
- 106
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 41 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 34 · 2013: 25 · 2012: 35
- FWCI
- 3.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Protein Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Structural Biology › Enzyme Structure and Function
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biochemical and Structural Characterization
- Keywords
- protein-protein interaction, diphtheria toxin, amyloid proteins, protein flexibility, protein structure
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Humans, Models, Molecular, Protein Binding, Proteins, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Dimerization
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