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Menin

Homo sapiens · seed O00255 · 610 aa · family defined as ≥30% identity to that seed · compiled 07 October 2026

CATH and SCOP identifiers come from the RCSB's own structure annotations, which the Domains panel already reads, so these are looked up rather than guessed at.

70Entries 70Entities 23Constructs 2Organisms 52Ligand-bound
1.24 ÅBest res.
1.85 ÅMedian res.

Every figure here is counted over the whole family rather than quoted from one entry.

The reference structure

7UJ4, the structure every other member of this family is superposed onto. Rendered by the RCSB and embedded here: the live app shows an interactive viewport, which a document that fetches nothing cannot.

Rendered structure of 7UJ4
7UJ4 at the RCSB · open it in the 3D viewer

Which residues anyone has ever seen

How many of this family's constructs contain each residue of the seed. A trough is a stretch nobody has put in a construct, which is a construct-design answer rather than a disorder one.

130561070 constructs

Constructs, most-used first

23 distinct constructs across 70 entries. 69 polymer entities differ from the UniProt canonical sequence in some way, 3 carry a recognised expression tag and 0 carry a fusion partner.

"Differs from canonical" is not the same as "engineered". The canonical sequence is the full gene product, so a secreted protein whose structures all start after its signal peptide counts every one of them as different: lysozyme's most-used construct, residues 19–147 on 1,239 entities, is simply the mature protein. Read the construct column below for what was actually done, rather than this count.

EntitiesLengthBest (Å)Best entryWhat was made
19 489 1.27 4GQ4 residues 1-593; 3 internal deletions; T541A
9 550 2.10 6WNH 1 internal deletion; M1S
6 489 1.24 6O5I residues 1-593; 3 internal deletions
4 488 1.50 9WN9 residues 2-583; 1 internal deletion; A5T
4 488 1.80 9WKV residues 2-583; 1 internal deletion; A5T, M322I
3 480 1.45 4OG4 residues 1-593; 4 internal deletions
3 494 1.98 7O9Z residues 1-584; 3 internal deletions; T541A
3 507 1.85 9C93 His6; TEV site; residues 1-583; 1 internal deletion; M1S, A5T
2 489 1.31 9C4Y residues 1-593; 3 internal deletions; T344M, T541A
2 489 1.40 9C4W residues 1-593; 3 internal deletions; G326R, T541A
2 489 1.40 9C4Z residues 1-593; 3 internal deletions; G326D, T541A
2 489 1.46 9C4T residues 1-593; 3 internal deletions; M322I, T541A
1 472 1.95 3RE2 residues 1-486; 1 internal deletion
1 488 1.96 7UJ4 residues 1-582; 1 internal deletion; A5T
1 489 1.30 8VA5 residues 1-593; 3 internal deletions; T344M
1 489 1.85 8E90 residues 1-583; 1 internal deletion; A5T, M322I
1 490 1.90 6PKC residues 1-583; 1 internal deletion; M1S, A5T
1 505 2.10 7OA9 residues 1-584; 2 internal deletions; T541A
1 509 2.44 6BXH residues 1-593; 2 internal deletions; T541A
1 526 3.10 6S2K residues 1-584; 1 internal deletion; T541A
1 539 2.95 9Z4X 2 internal deletions; M1S
1 550 2.60 8IG0 1 internal deletion
1 611 3.20 8GPN matches the canonical sequence

Positions people deliberately mutate

Columns where the wild-type residue still dominates but a real minority carries something else, which is a different question from "what varies across species".

T541A 62% M1S 23% A5T 21% M322I 11% G326R 6% T344M 6% Q586N 2% M587V 2% K588P 2% Q590S 2% K591R 2% V592R 2% P540D 2% V537A 2% P538N 2% A539T 2% L3P 1% K4A 1% Q7G 1% T9S 1% L10I 1% R14K 1% S15D 1% D17K 1% D18S 1% R21E 1% L22V 1% A24R 1% A25Q 1% G28R 1%

What it assembles into

Oligomeric stateChainsEntriesShare
monomeric1 56 80.0%
dimeric2 11 15.7%
trimeric3 1 1.4%
tetrameric4 1 1.4%
undecameric11 1 1.4%

45 entries have the depositor's assembly corroborated by PISA, 25 carry the depositor's word alone and 0 were assigned by PISA where the depositor gave none. The middle figure is not a disagreement: PISA may have returned nothing or never run. 2 entries carry more than one assembly with different chain counts, so they have no single answer to quote: 3U84, 3U85.

What binds it

7PR 7PR4 entries K5O K5O4 entries PG0 PG04 entries TBF TBF3 entries 9N6 9N63 entries OQ4 OQ42 entries 2IZ 2IZ2 entries CHD CHD1 entries GGB GGB1 entries 0BR 0BR1 entries GLV GLV1 entries 0RO 0RO1 entries
ComponentClassNameEntriesBest (Å)
SO4ion Sulfate Ion 38 1.24
DMScryoprotectant Dimethyl Sulfoxide 28 1.24
PG4cryoprotectant Tetraethylene Glycol 27 1.24
EDOcryoprotectant 1,2-Ethanediol 26 1.30
PEGcryoprotectant Di(Hydroxyethyl)ether 20 1.30
MGion Magnesium Ion 9 1.50
GOLcryoprotectant Glycerol 6 1.50
EPEbuffer 4-(2-Hydroxyethyl)-1-Piperazine Ethanesulfonic Acid 5 1.27
1PEcryoprotectant Pentaethylene Glycol 5 1.46
PGEcryoprotectant Triethylene Glycol 5 1.45
7PRligand Praseodymium Triacetate 4 2.10
K5Oligand Ziftomenib 4 1.30
PG0ligand 2-(2-Methoxyethoxy)ethanol 4 1.46
UNXion Unknown Atom Or Ion 3 1.27
TBFligand Tert-Butyl Formate 3 1.45
7IXbuffer (1r,2s,4r)-4-[[4-(5,6-Dimethoxypyridazin-3-Yl)phenyl]methylamino 3 1.63
9N6ligand N-Ethyl-5-Fluoro-2-{[5-(2-{(3r)-6-[(2-Methoxyethyl)(Methyl)amino 3 1.80
NAion Sodium Ion 3 1.63
OQ4ligand 2-({4-[7-({(1r,4r)-4-[(Ethanesulfonyl)amino]cyclohexyl}methyl)-2 2 1.85
MESbuffer 2-(N-Morpholino)-Ethanesulfonic Acid 2 1.80

How it crystallises

Parsed from the free text 69 depositors typed into _exptl_crystal_grow.pdbx_details, out of 69 entries that recorded anything at all. Median pH 7.9 (range 6.0 to 8.0).

Precipitants

PEG × Sodium chloride × Lithium sulfate × Magnesium chloride × Tacsimate × Isopropanol × Ammonium sulfate ×

Buffers

HEPES × Tris × MES × Bis-Tris × Sodium acetate × Bis-Tris propane × Sodium cacodylate ×

Which entries to trust

70 entries carry a wwPDB validation report: 35 clean, 30 worth a check and 5 with something to explain. Median clashscore 3.74, median RSRZ outliers 4.26%, median R-free minus R-work 0.035. 70 have released structure factors.

Across species

OrganismEntriesBest (Å)Ligand-boundSeed covered
Homo sapiens69 1.24 52 100%
Nematostella vectensis1 1.95 0 73%

Seed sequence

610 residues, numbered every ten. Every identity figure in this document is measured against this sequence.

active or binding site modified residue or glycosylation disulphide cysteine transmembrane or signal the 15 most-substituted positions

1MGLKAAQKTL FPLRSIDDVV RLFAAELGRE EPDLVLLSLV LGFVEHFLAV NRVIPTNVPE
61LTFQPSPAPD PPGGLTYFPV ADLSIIAALY ARFTAQIRGA VDLSLYPREG GVSSRELVKK
121VSDVIWNSLS RSYFKDRAHI QSLFSFITGT KLDSSGVAFA VVGACQALGL RDVHLALSED
181HAWVVFGPNG EQTAEVTWHG KGNEDRRGQT VNAGVAERSW LYLKGSYMRC DRKMEVAFMV
241CAINPSIDLH TDSLELLQLQ QKLLWLLYDL GHLERYPMAL GNLADLEELE PTPGRPDPLT
301LYHKGIASAK TYYRDEHIYP YMYLAGYHCR NRNVREALQA WADTATVIQD YNYCREDEEI
361YKEFFEVAND VIPNLLKEAA SLLEAGEERP GEQSQGTQSQ GSALQDPECF AHLLRFYDGI
421CKWEEGSPTP VLHVGWATFL VQSLGRFEGQ VRQKVRIVSR EAEAAEAEEP WGEEAREGRR
481RGPRRESKPE EPPPPKKPAL DKGLGTGQGA VSGPPRKPPG TVAGTARGPE GGSTAQVPAP
541TASPPPEGPV LTFQSEKMKG MKELLVATKI NSSAIKLQLT AQSQVQMKKQ KVSTPSDYTL
601SFLKRQRKGL

Sites are UniProt's curated features where the seed is a UniProt accession; the substituted positions are measured from this family's own alignment rather than annotated, and only the fifteen most substituted are marked: every position carrying a minority substitution would be most of the protein, because the family holds orthologues. A residue can carry more than one and is drawn with the first that applies, in the order of the key above.

Primary citations

One record per paper, not per entry.

YearCitation
2025 Design of Potent Menin-KMT2A Interaction Inhibitors with Improved In Vitro ADME Properties and Reduced hERG Affinity. Acs Med.Chem.Lett. doi:10.1021/acsmedchemlett.4c00311
2024 Ziftomenib in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukaemia (KOMET-001): a multicentre, open-label, multi-cohort, phase 1 trial. Lancet Oncol doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(24)00386-3
2024 Drug-resistant menin variants retain high binding affinity and interactions with MLL1. J.Biol.Chem. doi:10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107777
2024 Preclinical efficacy of the potent, selective menin-KMT2A inhibitor JNJ-75276617 (bleximenib) in KMT2A- and NPM1-altered leukemias. Blood doi:10.1182/blood.2023022480
2023 MEN1 mutations mediate clinical resistance to menin inhibition. Nature doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05755-9
2023 A novel Menin-MLL1 inhibitor, DS-1594a, prevents the progression of acute leukemia with rearranged MLL1 or mutated NPM1. Cancer Cell Int doi:10.1186/s12935-023-02877-y
2023 Menin "reads" H3K79me2 mark in a nucleosomal context. Science doi:10.1126/science.adc9318
2021 Discovery of M-1121 as an Orally Active Covalent Inhibitor of Menin-MLL Interaction Capable of Achieving Complete and Long-Lasting Tumor Regression. J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c00789
2020 Menin inhibitor MI-3454 induces remission in MLL1-rearranged and NPM1-mutated models of leukemia. J.Clin.Invest. doi:10.1172/JCI129126
2020 Covalent and noncovalent constraints yield a figure eight-like conformation of a peptide inhibiting the menin-MLL interaction. Eur.J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112748
2020 Discovery of M-808 as a Highly Potent, Covalent, Small-Molecule Inhibitor of the Menin-MLL Interaction with StrongIn VivoAntitumor Activity. J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00547
2019 A Menin-MLL Inhibitor Induces Specific Chromatin Changes and Eradicates Disease in Models of MLL-Rearranged Leukemia. Cancer Cell doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2019.11.001
2019 Structure-Based Discovery of M-89 as a Highly Potent Inhibitor of the Menin-Mixed Lineage Leukemia (Menin-MLL) Protein-Protein Interaction. J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.9b00021
2018 Complexity of Blocking Bivalent Protein-Protein Interactions: Development of a Highly Potent Inhibitor of the Menin-Mixed-Lineage Leukemia Interaction. J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b00071
2018 Design of the First-in-Class, Highly Potent Irreversible Inhibitor Targeting the Menin-MLL Protein-Protein Interaction. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. doi:10.1002/anie.201711828
2016 Property Focused Structure-Based Optimization of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Protein-Protein Interaction between Menin and Mixed Lineage Leukemia (MLL). J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b01305
2015 Rational Design of Orthogonal Multipolar Interactions with Fluorine in Protein-Ligand Complexes. J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5b00975
2015 Pharmacologic Inhibition of the Menin-MLL Interaction Blocks Progression of MLL Leukemia In Vivo. Cancer Cell doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2015.02.016
2014 High-Affinity Small-Molecule Inhibitors of the Menin-Mixed Lineage Leukemia (MLL) Interaction Closely Mimic a Natural Protein-Protein Interaction. J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1021/jm401868d
2013 Structure-Based Design of High-Affinity Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics to Block the Menin-Mixed Lineage Leukemia 1 (MLL1) Protein-Protein Interaction. J.Med.Chem. doi:10.1021/jm3015298
2012 Structural insights into inhibition of the bivalent menin-MLL interaction by small molecules in leukemia. Blood doi:10.1182/blood-2012-05-429274
2012 The same pocket in menin binds both MLL and JUND but has opposite effects on transcription. Nature doi:10.1038/nature10806
2011 Crystal Structure of Menin Reveals Binding Site for Mixed Lineage Leukemia (MLL) Protein. J.Biol.Chem. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.258186
Wild-type Menin complexed with DSP-5336 To Be Published
Wild-type Menin complexed with DS-1594 To Be Published
[M322I] Menin complexed with JNJ-75276617 To Be Published
Wild-type Menin complexed with JNJ-75276617 To Be Published
Crystal structure of Human Menin in complex with BD-08 To Be Published
[M322I] Menin complexed with DSP-5336 To Be Published
[M322I] Menin complexed with KO-539 To Be Published
Crystal structure of Human Menin in complex with Fragment 21 To Be Published
Crystal structure of Human Menin in apo form To Be Published
Crystal structure of Human Menin with fragment 16 To Be Published
Wild-type Menin complexed with KO-539 To Be Published
Menin in complex with MI-853 To Be Published
Human Menin in complex with AJ21 To Be Published