A critical examination of the recently reported crystal structures of the human SMN protein

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Weiss, Manfred S.
Read, Randy J.
Panjikar, Santosh
Van Duyne, Gregory D.
Matera, A. Gregory
Fischer, Utz
Grimm, Clemens
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Human Molecular Genetics. 2016, 25(21), pp. 4717-4725. ISSN 0964-6906. eISSN 1460-2083. Available under: doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddw298
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A recent publication by Seng et al. in this journal reports the crystallographic structure of refolded, full-length SMN protein and two disease-relevant derivatives thereof. Here, we would like to suggest that at least two of the structures reported in that study are incorrect. We present evidence that one of the associated crystallographic datasets is derived from a crystal of the bacterial Sm-like protein Hfq and that a second dataset is derived from a crystal of the bacterial Gab protein. Both proteins are frequent contaminants of bacterially overexpressed proteins which might have been co-purified during metal affinity chromatography. A third structure presented in the Seng et al. paper cannot be examined further because neither the atomic coordinates, nor the diffraction intensities were made publicly available. The Tudor domain protein SMN has been shown to be a component of the SMN complex, which mediates the assembly of RNA-protein complexes of uridine-rich small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (UsnRNPs). Importantly, this activity is reduced in SMA patients, raising the possibility that the aetiology of SMA is linked to RNA metabolism. Structural studies on diverse components of the SMN complex, including fragments of SMN itself have contributed greatly to our understanding of the cellular UsnRNP assembly machinery. Yet full-length SMN has so far evaded structural elucidation. The Seng et al. study claimed to have closed this gap, but based on the results presented here, the only conclusion that can be drawn is that the Seng et al. study is largely invalid and should be retracted from the literature.

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ISO 690WEISS, Manfred S., Kay DIEDERICHS, Randy J. READ, Santosh PANJIKAR, Gregory D. VAN DUYNE, A. Gregory MATERA, Utz FISCHER, Clemens GRIMM, 2016. A critical examination of the recently reported crystal structures of the human SMN protein. In: Human Molecular Genetics. 2016, 25(21), pp. 4717-4725. ISSN 0964-6906. eISSN 1460-2083. Available under: doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddw298
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@article{Weiss2016criti-37539,
  year={2016},
  doi={10.1093/hmg/ddw298},
  title={A critical examination of the recently reported crystal structures of the human SMN protein},
  number={21},
  volume={25},
  issn={0964-6906},
  journal={Human Molecular Genetics},
  pages={4717--4725},
  author={Weiss, Manfred S. and Diederichs, Kay and Read, Randy J. and Panjikar, Santosh and Van Duyne, Gregory D. and Matera, A. Gregory and Fischer, Utz and Grimm, Clemens}
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