Factor-inhibiting hypoxia-inducible factor (FIH) catalyses the post-translational hydroxylation of histidinyl residues within ankyrin repeat domains.

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Yang M, Chowdhury R, Ge W, Hamed RB, McDonough MA, Claridge TD, Kessler BM, Cockman ME, Ratcliffe PJ, Schofield CJ

Factor-inhibiting hypoxia-inducible factor (FIH) catalyses the post-translational hydroxylation of histidinyl residues within ankyrin repeat domains.

FEBS J. 2011 Apr;278(7):1086-97. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2011.08022.x. Epub 2011 Feb 23.

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Abstract

Factor-inhibiting hypoxia-inducible factor (FIH) is an Fe(II)/2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase that acts as a negative regulator of the hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) by catalysing beta-hydroxylation of an asparaginyl residue in its C-terminal transcriptional activation domain (CAD). In addition to the hypoxia-inducible factor C-terminal transcriptional activation domain (HIF-CAD), FIH also catalyses asparaginyl hydroxylation of many ankyrin repeat domain-containing proteins, revealing a broad sequence selectivity. However, there are few reports on the selectivity of FIH for the hydroxylation of specific residues. Here, we report that histidinyl residues within the ankyrin repeat domain of tankyrase-2 can be hydroxylated by FIH. NMR and crystallographic analyses show that the histidinyl hydroxylation occurs at the beta-position. The results further expand the scope of FIH-catalysed hydroxylations.

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NameUniProt ID
Hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha inhibitorQ9NWT6Details