Dissecting the structural and functional consequences of the evolutionary proline-glycine deletion in the wing 1 region of the forkhead domain of human FoxP1
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2024
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The human FoxP transcription factors dimerize via three-dimensional domain swapping, a unique feature among the human Fox family, as result of evolutionary sequence adaptations in the forkhead domain. This is the case for the conserved glycine and proline residues in the wing 1 region, which are absent in FoxP proteins but present in most of the Fox family. In this work, we engineered both glycine (G) and proline-glycine (PG) insertion mutants to evaluate the deletion events in FoxP proteins in their dimerization, stability, flexibility, and DNA-binding ability. We show that the PG insertion only increases protein stability, whereas the single glycine insertion decreases the association rate and protein stability and promotes affinity to the DNA ligand.
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DNA-binding affinity, domain swapping, evolutionary mutations, forkhead DNA-binding proteins, P subfamily, protein-protein interactions, stability, transcription factor