Human Molecular Genetics, 2001, Vol. 10, No. 25 2899-2905
© 2001 Oxford University Press
Pathological mutations in TSC1 and TSC2 disrupt the interaction between hamartin and tuberin
Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK and 1Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Critical functions of hamartin and tuberin, encoded by the TSC1 and TSC2 genes, are likely to be closely linked. The proteins interact directly with one another and mutations affecting either gene result in the tuberous sclerosis phenotype. However, the regions of hamartin and tuberin that interact have not been well defined, and the relationship between their interaction and the pathogenesis of tuberous sclerosis has not been explored. To address these issues a series of hamartin and tuberin constructs were used to assay for interaction in the yeast two-hybrid system. Hamartin (amino acids 302–430) and tuberin (amino acids 1–418) interacted strongly with one another. A region of tuberin encoding a putative coiled-coil (amino acids 346–371) was necessary but not sufficient to mediate the interaction with hamartin, as more N-terminal residues were also required. A region of hamartin (amino acids 719–998) predicted to encode coiled-coils was capable of oligermerization but was not important for the interaction with tuberin. Subtle, non-truncating mutations identified in patients with tuberous sclerosis and located within the putative binding regions of hamartin (N198_F199delinsI;593–595delACT) or tuberin (G294E and I365del), abolished or dramatically reduced interaction of the proteins as assessed by yeast two-hybrid assays and by co-immunoprecipitation of the full-length proteins from Cos7 cells. In contrast, three non-pathogenic missense polymorphisms of tuberin (R261W, M286V, R367Q) in the same region as the disease-causing TSC2 mutations did not. These results indicate a requirement for interaction in critical growth suppressing functions of hamartin and tuberin.
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