PMID- 36094910 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220914 LR - 20230607 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 9 DP - 2022 TI - The PCI domains are "winged" HEAT domains. PG - e0268664 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0268664 [doi] LID - e0268664 AB - The HEAT domains are a family of helical hairpin repeat domains, composed of four or more hairpins. HEAT is derived from the names of four family members: huntingtin, eukaryotic translation elongation factor 3 (eEF3), protein phosphatase 2 regulatory A subunit (PP2A), and mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR). HEAT domain-containing proteins play roles in a wide range of cellular processes, such as protein synthesis, nuclear transport and metabolism, and cell signaling. The PCI domains are a related group of helical hairpin domains, with a "winged-helix" (WH) subdomain at their C-terminus, which is responsible for multi-subunit complex formation with other PCI domains. The name is derived from the complexes, where these domains are found: the 26S Proteasome "lid" regulatory subcomplex, the COP9 signalosome (CSN), and eukaryotic translation initiation factor 3 (eIF3). We noted that in structure similarity searches using HEAT domains, sometimes PCI domains appeared in the search results ahead of other HEAT domains, which indicated that the PCI domains could be members of the HEAT domain family, and not a related but separate group, as currently thought. Here, we report extensive structure similarity analysis of HEAT and PCI domains, both within and between the two groups of proteins. We present evidence that the PCI domains as a group have greater structural similarity with individual groups of HEAT domains than some of the HEAT domain groups have among each other. Therefore, our results indicate that the PCI domains have evolved from a HEAT domain that acquired a WH subdomain. The WH subdomain in turn mediated self-association into a multi-subunit complex, which eventually evolved into the common ancestor of the Proteasome lid/CSN/eIF3. FAU - Paul, Eleanor Elise AU - Paul EE AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8937-795X AD - Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. FAU - Marintchev, Assen AU - Marintchev A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9901-3500 AD - Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. LA - eng GR - R01 GM134113/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20220912 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 RN - 0 (Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3) RN - 0 (Proteins) RN - EC 3.4.19.12 (COP9 Signalosome Complex) SB - IM MH - COP9 Signalosome Complex MH - *Eukaryotic Initiation Factor-3/chemistry MH - Hot Temperature MH - *Percutaneous Coronary Intervention MH - Proteins PMC - PMC9467303 COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2022/09/13 06:00 MHDA- 2022/09/15 06:00 PMCR- 2022/09/12 CRDT- 2022/09/12 13:32 PHST- 2022/05/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/08/17 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/09/12 13:32 [entrez] PHST- 2022/09/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/09/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/09/12 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-22-12899 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0268664 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2022 Sep 12;17(9):e0268664. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268664. eCollection 2022.