Biological Assembly 1  

 3D View: Structure

Global Symmetry: Asymmetric - C1 
Global Stoichiometry: Monomer - A1 

Biological assembly 1 assigned by authors.

Macromolecule Content

• Total Structure Weight: 11.18 kDa 
• Atom Count: 788 
• Residue Count: 94 
• Unique protein chains: 1

2RSG

Solution structure of the CERT PH domain

• DOI: 10.2210/pdb2RSG/pdb
• BMRB: 11473

• Classification: LIPID TRANSPORT
• Organism(s): Homo sapiens
• Expression System: Escherichia coli
• Mutation(s): No 


• Deposited: 2012-02-25 Released: 2012-08-15 
• Deposition Author(s): Sugiki, T., Takeuchi, K., Tokunaga, Y., Kumagai, K., Kawano, M., Nishijima, M., Hanada, K., Takahashi, H., Shimada, I.

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Experimental Data Snapshot

• Method: SOLUTION NMR
• Conformers Calculated: 200 
• Conformers Submitted: 20 
• Selection Criteria: structures with the lowest energy 

Literature

Structural basis for the Golgi association by the pleckstrin homology domain of the ceramide trafficking protein (CERT)

Sugiki, T., Takeuchi, K., Yamaji, T., Takano, T., Tokunaga, Y., Kumagai, K., Hanada, K., Takahashi, H., Shimada, I.

(2012) J Biol Chem 287: 33706-33718

• PubMed: 22869376 
• DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.367730
• Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
  2RSG


• PubMed Abstract: 
  

Ceramide transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus is crucial in sphingolipid biosynthesis, and the process relies on the ceramide trafficking protein (CERT), which contains pleckstrin homology (PH) and StAR-related lipid transfer domains. The CERT PH domain specifically recognizes phosphatidylinositol 4-monophosphate (PtdIns(4)P), a characteristic phosphoinositide in the Golgi membrane, and is indispensable for the endoplasmic reticulum-to-Golgi transport of ceramide by CERT. In this study, we determined the three-dimensional structure of the CERT PH domain by using solution NMR techniques. The structure revealed the presence of a characteristic basic groove near the canonical PtdIns(4)P recognition site. An extensive interaction study using NMR and other biophysical techniques revealed that the basic groove coordinates the CERT PH domain for efficient PtdIns(4)P recognition and localization in the Golgi apparatus. The notion was also supported by Golgi mislocalization of the CERT mutants in living cells. The distinctive binding modes reflect the functions of PH domains, as the basic groove is conserved only in the PH domains involved with the PtdIns(4)P-dependent lipid transport activity but not in those with the signal transduction activity.

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Organizational Affiliation: 

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Macromolecules

Entity ID: 1
Molecule	Chains	Sequence Length	Organism	Details	Image
Collagen type IV alpha-3-binding protein	A	94	Homo sapiens	Mutation(s): 0  Gene Names: COL4A3BP, CERT, STARD11, CERT1
Find proteins for Q9Y5P4 (Homo sapiens) Explore Q9Y5P4  Go to UniProtKB:  Q9Y5P4
NIH Common Fund Data Resources
PHAROS  Q9Y5P4 GTEx  ENSG00000113163

Experimental Data & Validation

Experimental Data

• Method: SOLUTION NMR
• Conformers Calculated: 200 
• Conformers Submitted: 20 
• Selection Criteria: structures with the lowest energy 
• OLDERADO: 2RSG Olderado

Structure Validation

Entry History 

Deposition Data

• Deposited Date: 2012-02-25 
• Released Date: 2012-08-15 
Deposition Author(s): Sugiki, T., Takeuchi, K., Tokunaga, Y., Kumagai, K., Kawano, M., Nishijima, M., Hanada, K., Takahashi, H., Shimada, I.

Revision History 

• Version 1.0: 2012-08-15
  Type: Initial release
  
• Version 1.1: 2013-10-16
  Changes: Database references