Abstract
Proteins are localized and concentrated at cellular and genomic locations for specific and efficient functions. Efforts to understand protein accumulation in eukaryotic organisms have primarily focused on multivalent interactions between intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) as mediators of protein condensation. We previously showed that α-crystalline domain (ACD) proteins 15 (ACD15) and 21 (ACD21) were required for multimerization and the accumulation of gene-silencing methyl-CpG-binding domain protein 6 (MBD6) at chromocenters in Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, we demonstrate that ACDs and IDRs can act as parallel mechanisms, facilitating higher-order MBD6 assemblies. Using human IDRs known to be important for protein accumulation, we replicated and enhanced the accumulation of MBD6 at chromocenters. In addition, IDRs fused to MBD6 could substitute for ACD function and partially reconstitute the MBD6 gene-silencing function. However, the accumulation of MBD6 by IDRs still required ACD15 and ACD21 for full effect. These results establish that ACD-mediated protein accumulation is a mechanism that can function similarly to and together with IDR-mediated mechanisms.
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