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Yu, Jun; Raia, Pierre; Ghent, Chloe M; Raisch, Tobias; Sadian, Yashar; Cavadini, Simone; Sabale, Pramod M; Barford, David; Raunser, Stefan; Morgan, David O; Boland, Andreas
Nature, 08/2021, Volume: 596, Issue: 7870Journal Article
In early mitosis, the duplicated chromosomes are held together by the ring-shaped cohesin complex . Separation of chromosomes during anaphase is triggered by separase-a large cysteine endopeptidase that cleaves the cohesin subunit SCC1 (also known as RAD21 ). Separase is activated by degradation of its inhibitors, securin and cyclin B , but the molecular mechanisms of separase regulation are not clear. Here we used cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the structures of human separase in complex with either securin or CDK1-cyclin B1-CKS1. In both complexes, separase is inhibited by pseudosubstrate motifs that block substrate binding at the catalytic site and at nearby docking sites. As in Caenorhabditis elegans and yeast , human securin contains its own pseudosubstrate motifs. By contrast, CDK1-cyclin B1 inhibits separase by deploying pseudosubstrate motifs from intrinsically disordered loops in separase itself. One autoinhibitory loop is oriented by CDK1-cyclin B1 to block the catalytic sites of both separase and CDK1 . Another autoinhibitory loop blocks substrate docking in a cleft adjacent to the separase catalytic site. A third separase loop contains a phosphoserine that promotes complex assembly by binding to a conserved phosphate-binding pocket in cyclin B1. Our study reveals the diverse array of mechanisms by which securin and CDK1-cyclin B1 bind and inhibit separase, providing the molecular basis for the robust control of chromosome segregation.
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