Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Structural mechanism of protein recognition by the FW domain of autophagy receptor Nbr1

  • Jianxiu Zhang,
  • Ying-Ying Wang,
  • Zhao-Qian Pan,
  • Yulu Li,
  • Jianhua Sui,
  • Li-Lin Du,
  • Keqiong Ye

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31439-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Nbr1 recognizes cargos in selective autophagy. Here, authors show filamentous yeast Nbr1 binds Ams1 via an FW domain, and the cryo-EM structure reveals that Nbr1 recognizes the N-terminal di-glycine and tetrameric assembly of Ams1.