Figure 1.
TAF1 contains an evolutionarily conserved zinc knuckle. (A) Linear schematic of full length human TAF1 with percent conservation in eukaryotes shown. (B) Annotated TAF1 zinc knuckle conservation alignment spanning vertebrates, insects, nematodes, plants, and fungi. Zinc knuckle cysteines and histidine are boxed in blue. Conserved positive residues indicated by the green dots. (C) Sequence alignment of zinc knuckle containing proteins from eukaryotes and viruses. (D) Alignment of TAF1 ZnK model (blue) from I-TASSER prediction analysis with known structure of ZnK of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein (green) and lin28 (purple); (E) Electrostatic surface map of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein nucleic acid binding surface (right) and corresponding region of TAF1 ZnK (left).
