Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

RPAP3 provides a flexible scaffold for coupling HSP90 to the human R2TP co-chaperone complex

  • Fabrizio Martino,
  • Mohinder Pal,
  • Hugo Muñoz-Hernández,
  • Carlos F. Rodríguez,
  • Rafael Núñez-Ramírez,
  • David Gil-Carton,
  • Gianluca Degliesposti,
  • J. Mark Skehel,
  • S. Mark Roe,
  • Chrisostomos Prodromou,
  • Laurence H. Pearl,
  • Oscar Llorca

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03942-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The R2TP/PFDL co-chaperone facilitates assembly of RNA polymerase II and PI3-kinase-like kinases such as mTOR by a so far unknown mechanism. Here authors provide the cryo-EM structure of human R2TP, which shows how RPAP3 serves as a flexible platform to recruit HSP90 to diverse client proteins.