Peptides derived from transcription factor EB bind to calcineurin at a similar region as the NFAT-type motif

Publication date: Available online 7 September 2017
Source:Biochimie
Author(s): Ruiwen Song, Jing Li, Jin Zhang, Lu Wang, Li Tong, Ping Wang, Huan Yang, Qun Wei, Huaibin Cai, Jing Luo
Calcineurin (CN) is involved in many physiological processes and interacts with multiple substrates. Most of the substrates contain similar motifs recognized by CN. Recent studies revealed a new CN substrate, transcription factor EB (TFEB), which is involved in autophagy. We showed that a 15-mer QSYLENPTSYHLQQS peptide from TFEB (TFEB-YLENP) bound to CN. When the TFEB-YLENP peptide was changed to YLAVP, its affinity for CN increased and it had stronger CN inhibitory activity. Molecular dynamics simulations revealed that the TFEB-YLENP peptide has the same docking sites in CN as the 15-mer DQYLAVPQHPYQWAK motif of the nuclear factor of activated T cells, cytoplasmic 1 (NFATc1-YLAVP). Moreover expression of the NFATc1-YLAVP peptide suppressed the TFEB activation in starved Hela cells. Our studies first identified a CN binding site in TFEB and compared the inhibitory capability of various peptides derived from CN substrates. The data uncovered a diversity in recognition sequences that underlies the CN signaling within the cell. Studies of CN-substrate interactions should lay the groundwork for developing selective CN peptide inhibitors that target CN-substrate interaction in vitro experiments.



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