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Tóth A, Sajdik K, Gyurcsik B, Nafaee ZH, Wéber E, Kele Z, Christensen NJ, Schell J, Correia JG, Sigfridsson Clauss KGV, Pittkowski RK, Thulstrup PW, Hemmingsen L, Jancsó A. As III Selectively Induces a Disorder-to-Order Transition in the Metalloid Binding Region of the AfArsR Protein. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:17009-17022. [PMID: 38820242 PMCID: PMC11212059 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c11665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2023] [Revised: 05/22/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
Abstract
Arsenic is highly toxic and a significant threat to human health, but certain bacteria have developed defense mechanisms initiated by AsIII binding to AsIII-sensing proteins of the ArsR family. The transcriptional regulator AfArsR responds to AsIII and SbIII by coordinating the metalloids with three cysteines, located in a short sequence of the same monomer chain. Here, we characterize the binding of AsIII and HgII to a model peptide encompassing this fragment of the protein via solution equilibrium and spectroscopic/spectrometric techniques (pH potentiometry, UV, CD, NMR, PAC, EXAFS, and ESI-MS) combined with DFT calculations and MD simulations. Coordination of AsIII changes the peptide structure from a random-coil to a well-defined structure of the complex. A trigonal pyramidal AsS3 binding site is formed with almost exactly the same structure as observed in the crystal structure of the native protein, implying that the peptide possesses all of the features required to mimic the AsIII recognition and response selectivity of AfArsR. Contrary to this, binding of HgII to the peptide does not lead to a well-defined structure of the peptide, and the atoms near the metal binding site are displaced and reoriented in the HgII model. Our model study suggests that structural organization of the metal site by the inducer ion is a key element in the mechanism of the metalloid-selective recognition of this protein.
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- Annamária Tóth
- Department
of Molecular and Analytical Chemistry, University
of Szeged, Dóm
tér 7-8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department
of Molecular and Analytical Chemistry, University
of Szeged, Dóm
tér 7-8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department
of Molecular and Analytical Chemistry, University
of Szeged, Dóm
tér 7-8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department
of Molecular and Analytical Chemistry, University
of Szeged, Dóm
tér 7-8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department
of Medical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
- HUN-REN-SZTE
Biomimetic Systems Research Group, Dóm tér 8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department
of Medical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University
of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Institute
for Materials Science and Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen
(CENIDE), University of Duisburg-Essen, 45141 Essen, Germany
- European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Centro de
Cięncias e Tecnologias Nucleares, Departamento de Engenharia
e Cięncias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2695-066 Bobadela LRS, Portugal
- European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Kobenhavn Ø, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Kobenhavn Ø, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Kobenhavn Ø, Denmark
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- Department
of Molecular and Analytical Chemistry, University
of Szeged, Dóm
tér 7-8, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
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Muzquiz R, Jamshidi C, Conroy DW, Jaroniec CP, Foster MP. Insights into Ligand-Mediated Activation of an Oligomeric Ring-Shaped Gene-Regulatory Protein from Solution- and Solid-State NMR. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.05.10.593404. [PMID: 38798368 PMCID: PMC11118279 DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.10.593404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2024]
Abstract
The 91 kDa oligomeric ring-shaped ligand binding protein TRAP (trp RNA binding attenuation protein) regulates the expression of a series of genes involved in tryptophan (Trp) biosynthesis in bacilli. When cellular Trp levels rise, the free amino acid binds to sites buried in the interfaces between each of the 11 (or 12, depending on the species) protomers in the ring. Crystal structures of Trp-bound TRAP show the Trp ligands are sequestered from solvent by a pair of loops from adjacent protomers that bury the bound ligand via polar contacts to several threonine residues. Binding of the Trp ligands occurs cooperatively, such that successive binding events occur with higher apparent affinity but the structural basis for this cooperativity is poorly understood. We used solution methyl-TROSY NMR relaxation experiments focused on threonine and isoleucine sidechains, as well as magic angle spinning solid-state NMR 13C-13C and 15N-13C chemical shift correlation spectra on uniformly labeled samples recorded at 800 and 1200 MHz, to characterize the structure and dynamics of the protein. Methyl 13C relaxation dispersion experiments on ligand-free apo TRAP revealed concerted exchange dynamics on the μs-ms time scale, consistent with transient sampling of conformations that could allow ligand binding. Cross-correlated relaxation experiments revealed widespread disorder on fast timescales. Chemical shifts for methyl-bearing side chains in apo- and Trp-bound TRAP revealed subtle changes in the distribution of sampled sidechain rotameric states. These observations reveal a pathway and mechanism for induced conformational changes to generate homotropic Trp-Trp binding cooperativity.
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- Rodrigo Muzquiz
- Ohio State Biochemistry Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Ohio State Biochemistry Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Ohio State Biochemistry Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Ohio State Biochemistry Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, 484 West 12 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 100 West 18 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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Kim M, Le MT, Fan L, Campbell C, Sen S, Capdevila DA, Stemmler TL, Giedroc DP. Characterization of the Zinc Uptake Repressor (Zur) from Acinetobacter baumannii. Biochemistry 2024; 63:660-670. [PMID: 38385972 PMCID: PMC11019503 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
Abstract
Bacterial cells tightly regulate the intracellular concentrations of essential transition metal ions by deploying a panel of metal-regulated transcriptional repressors and activators that bind to operator-promoter regions upstream of regulated genes. Like other zinc uptake regulator (Zur) proteins, Acinetobacter baumannii Zur represses transcription of its regulon when ZnII is replete and binds more weakly to DNA when ZnII is limiting. Previous studies established that Zur proteins are homodimeric and harbor at least two metal sites per protomer or four per dimer. CdII X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) of the Cd2Zn2 AbZur metalloderivative with CdII bound to the allosteric sites reveals a S(N/O)3 first coordination shell. Site-directed mutagenesis suggests that H89 and C100 from the N-terminal DNA binding domain and H107 and E122 from the C-terminal dimerization domain comprise the regulatory metal site. KZn for this allosteric site is 6.0 (±2.2) × 1012 M-1 with a functional "division of labor" among the four metal ligands. N-terminal domain ligands H89 and C100 contribute far more to KZn than H107 and E122, while C100S AbZur uniquely fails to bind to DNA tightly as measured by an in vitro transcription assay. The heterotropic allosteric coupling free energy, ΔGc, is negative, consistent with a higher KZn for the AbZur-DNA complex and defining a bioavailable ZnII set-point of ≈6 × 10-14 M. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments reveal that only the wild-type Zn homodimer undergoes allosteric switching, while the C100S AbZur fails to switch. These data collectively suggest that switching to a high affinity DNA-binding conformation involves a rotation/translation of one protomer relative to the other in a way that is dependent on the integrity of C100. We place these findings in the context of other Zur proteins and Fur family repressors more broadly.
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- Minyong Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7102, United States
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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- Basic Science Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, SAXS Core Facility of the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201-2417, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7102, United States
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), C1405 BWE Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201-2417, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7102, United States
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, United States
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Kornev AP, Weng JH, Maillard RA, Taylor SS. Gauging Dynamics-driven Allostery Using a New Computational Tool: A CAP Case Study. J Mol Biol 2024; 436:168395. [PMID: 38097109 PMCID: PMC10851786 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2023.168395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Revised: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/24/2023]
Abstract
In this study, we utilize Protein Residue Networks (PRNs), constructed using Local Spatial Pattern (LSP) alignment, to explore the dynamic behavior of Catabolite Activator Protein (CAP) upon the sequential binding of cAMP. We employed the Degree Centrality of these PRNs to investigate protein dynamics on a sub-nanosecond time scale, hypothesizing that it would reflect changes in CAP's entropy related to its thermal motions. We show that the binding of the first cAMP led to an increase in stability in the Cyclic-Nucleotide Binding Domain A (CNBD-A) and destabilization in CNBD-B, agreeing with previous reports explaining the negative cooperativity of cAMP binding in terms of an entropy-driven allostery. LSP-based PRNs also allow for the study of Betweenness Centrality, another graph-theoretical characteristic of PRNs, providing insights into global residue connectivity within CAP. Using this approach, we were able to correctly identify amino acids that were shown to be critical in mediating allosteric interactions in CAP. The agreement between our studies and previous experimental reports validates our method, particularly with respect to the reliability of Degree Centrality as a proxy for entropy related to protein thermal dynamics. Because LSP-based PRNs can be easily extended to include dynamics of small organic molecules, polynucleotides, or other allosteric proteins, the methods presented here mark a significant advancement in the field, positioning them as vital tools for a fast, cost-effective, and accurate analysis of entropy-driven allostery and identification of allosteric hotspots.
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- Alexandr P Kornev
- Departmen of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
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- Departmen of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20007, USA
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- Departmen of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Augustine J, Baksh KA, Prosser RS, Zamble DB. Insights into the Allosteric Response to Acidity by the Helicobacter pylori NikR Transcription Factor. Biochemistry 2023; 62:3265-3275. [PMID: 37917856 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
Abstract
Helicobacter pylori NikR (HpNikR) is a nickel-responsive transcription factor that regulates genes involved in nickel homeostasis, which is essential for the survival of this pathogen within the acidic human stomach. HpNikR also responds to drops in pH and regulates genes controlling acid acclimation of the bacteria, independently of nickel. We previously showed that nickel binding biases the conformational ensemble of HpNikR to the more DNA-binding competent states via an allosteric network of residues encompassing the nickel binding sites and the interface between the metal- and DNA-binding domains. Here, we examine how acidity promotes this response using 19F-NMR, mutagenesis, and DNA-binding studies. 19F-NMR revealed that a drop in pH from 7.6 to 6.0 does little to shift the conformational ensemble of HpNikR to the DNA binding-compatible cis conformer. Nevertheless, DNA-binding affinities of apo-HpNikR at pH 6.0 and Ni(II)-HpNikR at pH 7.6 are comparable for the ureA promoter. Histidine residues of the nickel binding sites were shown to be important for pH-dependent DNA binding and thus likely impart positive charge to the protein, initiating long-range electrostatic interactions with DNA that induce DNA complexation. The results point to a different DNA-binding mechanism in response to acidity compared to the conformational selection mechanism in response to nickel and overall provide new insights into the influence of pH on HpNikR activity, which contributes to H. pylori viability.
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- Jerry Augustine
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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Giedroc DP, Antelo GT, Fakhoury JN, Capdevila DA. Sensing and regulation of reactive sulfur species (RSS) in bacteria. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2023; 76:102358. [PMID: 37399745 PMCID: PMC10526684 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.102358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Revised: 06/01/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/05/2023]
Abstract
The infected host deploys generalized oxidative stress caused by small inorganic reactive molecules as antibacterial weapons. An emerging consensus is that hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and forms of sulfur with sulfur-sulfur bonds termed reactive sulfur species (RSS) provide protection against oxidative stressors and antibiotics, as antioxidants. Here, we review our current understanding of RSS chemistry and its impact on bacterial physiology. We start by describing the basic chemistry of these reactive species and the experimental approaches developed to detect them in cells. We highlight the role of thiol persulfides in H2S-signaling and discuss three structural classes of ubiquitous RSS sensors that tightly regulate cellular H2S/RSS levels in bacteria, with a specific focus on the chemical specificity of these sensors.
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- David P Giedroc
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), C1405BWE Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), C1405BWE Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Pis Diez CM, Antelo GT, Dalia TN, Dalia AB, Giedroc DP, Capdevila DA. Increased intracellular persulfide levels attenuate HlyU-mediated hemolysin transcriptional activation in Vibrio cholerae. J Biol Chem 2023; 299:105147. [PMID: 37567478 PMCID: PMC10509353 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 08/07/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023] Open
Abstract
The vertebrate host's immune system and resident commensal bacteria deploy a range of highly reactive small molecules that provide a barrier against infections by microbial pathogens. Gut pathogens, such as Vibrio cholerae, sense and respond to these stressors by modulating the expression of exotoxins that are crucial for colonization. Here, we employ mass spectrometry-based profiling, metabolomics, expression assays, and biophysical approaches to show that transcriptional activation of the hemolysin gene hlyA in V. cholerae is regulated by intracellular forms of sulfur with sulfur-sulfur bonds, termed reactive sulfur species (RSS). We first present a comprehensive sequence similarity network analysis of the arsenic repressor superfamily of transcriptional regulators, where RSS and hydrogen peroxide sensors segregate into distinct clusters of sequences. We show that HlyU, transcriptional activator of hlyA in V. cholerae, belongs to the RSS-sensing cluster and readily reacts with organic persulfides, showing no reactivity or DNA dissociation following treatment with glutathione disulfide or hydrogen peroxide. Surprisingly, in V. cholerae cell cultures, both sulfide and peroxide treatment downregulate HlyU-dependent transcriptional activation of hlyA. However, RSS metabolite profiling shows that both sulfide and peroxide treatment raise the endogenous inorganic sulfide and disulfide levels to a similar extent, accounting for this crosstalk, and confirming that V. cholerae attenuates HlyU-mediated activation of hlyA in a specific response to intracellular RSS. These findings provide new evidence that gut pathogens may harness RSS-sensing as an evolutionary adaptation that allows them to overcome the gut inflammatory response by modulating the expression of exotoxins.
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- Cristian M Pis Diez
- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Internal motions in proteins take place on a broad range of time- and space-scales. The potential roles of these dynamics in the biochemical functions of proteins have intrigued biophysicists for many years, and multiple mechanisms to couple motions to function have been proposed. Some of these mechanisms have relied on equilibrium concepts. For example, the modulation of dynamics was proposed to change the entropy of a protein, hence affecting processes such as binding. This so-called dynamic allostery scenario has been demonstrated in several recent experiments. Perhaps even more intriguing may be models that involve out-of-equilibrium operation, which by necessity require the input of energy. We discuss several recent experimental studies that expose such potential mechanisms for coupling dynamics and function. In Brownian ratchets, for example, directional motion is promoted by switching a protein between two free energy surfaces. An additional example involves the effect of microsecond domain-closure dynamics of an enzyme on its much slower chemical cycle. These observations lead us to propose a novel two-time-scale paradigm for the activity of protein machines: fast equilibrium fluctuations take place on the microsecond-millisecond time scale, while on a slower time scale, free energy is invested in order to push the system out of equilibrium and drive functional transitions. Motions on the two time scales affect each other and are essential for the overall function of these machines.
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- Gilad Haran
- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
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Pis Diez CM, Antelo GT, Dalia TN, Dalia AB, Giedroc DP, Capdevila DA. Increased intracellular persulfide levels attenuate HlyU-mediated hemolysin transcriptional activation in Vibrio cholerae. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.03.13.532278. [PMID: 36993174 PMCID: PMC10054925 DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.13.532278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
The vertebrate host’s immune system and resident commensal bacteria deploy a range of highly reactive small molecules that provide a barrier against infections by microbial pathogens. Gut pathogens, such as Vibrio cholerae , sense and respond to these stressors by modulating the expression of exotoxins that are crucial for colonization. Here, we employ mass-spectrometry-based profiling, metabolomics, expression assays and biophysical approaches to show that transcriptional activation of the hemolysin gene hlyA in V. cholerae is regulated by intracellular reactive sulfur species (RSS), specifically sulfane sulfur. We first present a comprehensive sequence similarity network analysis of the arsenic repressor (ArsR) superfamily of transcriptional regulators where RSS and reactive oxygen species (ROS) sensors segregate into distinct clusters. We show that HlyU, transcriptional activator of hlyA in V. cholerae , belongs to the RSS-sensing cluster and readily reacts with organic persulfides, showing no reactivity and remaining DNA-bound following treatment with various ROS in vitro, including H 2 O 2 . Surprisingly, in V. cholerae cell cultures, both sulfide and peroxide treatment downregulate HlyU-dependent transcriptional activation of hlyA . However, RSS metabolite profiling shows that both sulfide and peroxide treatment raise the endogenous inorganic sulfide and disulfide levels to a similar extent, accounting for this crosstalk, and confirming that V. cholerae attenuates HlyU-mediated activation of hlyA in a specific response to intracellular RSS. These findings provide new evidence that gut pathogens may harness RSS-sensing as an evolutionary adaptation that allows them to overcome the gut inflammatory response by modulating the expression of exotoxins.
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- Cristian M. Pis Diez
- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), C1405BWE Ciudad Autónoma de, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), C1405BWE Ciudad Autónoma de, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7102, USA
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), C1405BWE Ciudad Autónoma de, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Baksh KA, Augustine J, Sljoka A, Prosser RS, Zamble DB. Mechanistic insights into the nickel-dependent allosteric response of the Helicobacter pylori NikR transcription factor. J Biol Chem 2022; 299:102785. [PMID: 36502919 PMCID: PMC9860126 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
In Helicobacter pylori, the nickel-responsive NikR transcription factor plays a key role in regulating intracellular nickel concentrations, which is an essential process for survival of this pathogen in the acidic human stomach. Nickel binding to H. pylori NikR (HpNikR) allosterically activates DNA binding to target promoters encoding genes involved in nickel homeostasis and acid adaptation, to either activate or repress their transcription. We previously showed that HpNikR adopts an equilibrium between an open conformation and DNA-binding competent cis and trans states. Nickel binding slows down conformational exchange between these states and shifts the equilibrium toward the binding-competent states. The protein then becomes stabilized in a cis conformation upon binding the ureA promoter. Here, we investigate how nickel binding creates this response and how it is transmitted to the DNA-binding domains. Through mutagenesis, DNA-binding studies, and computational methods, the allosteric response to nickel was found to be propagated from the nickel-binding sites to the DNA-binding domains via the β-sheets of the metal-binding domain and a network of residues at the inter-domain interface. Our computational results suggest that nickel binding increases protein rigidity to slow down the conformational exchange. A thymine base in the ureA promoter sequence, known to be critical for high affinity DNA binding by HpNikR, was also found to be important for the allosteric response, while a modified version of this promoter further highlighted the importance of the DNA sequence in modulating the response. Collectively, our results provide insights into regulation of a key protein for H. pylori survival.
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- Karina A. Baksh
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, RIKEN, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan,For correspondence: R. Scott Prosser; Adnan Sljoka
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,For correspondence: R. Scott Prosser; Adnan Sljoka
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Bonin JP, Sapienza PJ, Lee AL. Dynamic allostery in substrate binding by human thymidylate synthase. eLife 2022; 11:79915. [PMID: 36200982 PMCID: PMC9536839 DOI: 10.7554/elife.79915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Human thymidylate synthase (hTS) is essential for DNA replication and therefore a therapeutic target for cancer. Effective targeting requires knowledge of the mechanism(s) of regulation of this 72 kDa homodimeric enzyme. Here, we investigate the mechanism of binding cooperativity of the nucleotide substrate. We have employed exquisitely sensitive methyl-based CPMG and CEST NMR experiments enabling us to identify residues undergoing bifurcated linear 3-state exchange, including concerted switching between active and inactive conformations in the apo enzyme. The inactive state is populated to only ~1.3%, indicating that conformational selection contributes negligibly to the cooperativity. Instead, methyl rotation axis order parameters, determined by 2H transverse relaxation rates, suggest that rigidification of the enzyme upon substrate binding is responsible for the entropically-driven cooperativity. Lack of the rigidification in product binding and substrate binding to an N-terminally truncated enzyme, both non-cooperative, support this idea. In addition, the lack of this rigidification in the N-terminal truncation indicates that interactions between the flexible N-terminus and the rest of the protein, which are perturbed by substrate binding, play a significant role in the cooperativity—a novel mechanism of dynamic allostery. Together, these findings yield a rare depth of insight into the substrate binding cooperativity of an essential enzyme.
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- Jeffrey P Bonin
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina
- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina
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Chen X, Leyendecker S, van den Bedem H. Kinematic Vibrational Entropy Assessment and Analysis of SARS CoV-2 Main Protease. J Chem Inf Model 2022; 62:2869-2879. [PMID: 35594568 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The three-dimensional conformations of a protein influence its function and select for the ligands it can interact with. The total free energy change during protein-ligand complex formation includes enthalphic and entropic components, which together report on the binding affinity and conformational states of the complex. However, determining the entropic contribution is computationally burdensome. Here, we apply kinematic flexibility analysis (KFA) to efficiently estimate vibrational frequencies from static protein and protein-ligand structures. The vibrational frequencies, in turn, determine the vibrational entropies of the structures and their complexes. Our estimates of the vibrational entropy change caused by ligand binding compare favorably to values obtained from a dynamic Normal Mode Analysis (NMA). Higher correlation factors can be achieved by increasing the distance cutoff in the potential energy model. Furthermore, we apply our new method to analyze the entropy changes of the SARS CoV-2 main protease when binding with different ligand inhibitors, which is relevant for the design of potential drugs.
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- Xiyu Chen
- Institute of Applied Dynamics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Applied Dynamics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 94720 San Francisco, California, United States
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Choi TS, Tezcan FA. Overcoming universal restrictions on metal selectivity by protein design. Nature 2022; 603:522-527. [PMID: 35236987 PMCID: PMC9157509 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04469-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 01/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Selective metal coordination is central to the functions of metalloproteins:1,2 each metalloprotein must pair with its cognate metallocofactor to fulfil its biological role3. However, achieving metal selectivity solely through a three-dimensional protein structure is a great challenge, because there is a limited set of metal-coordinating amino acid functionalities and proteins are inherently flexible, which impedes steric selection of metals3,4. Metal-binding affinities of natural proteins are primarily dictated by the electronic properties of metal ions and follow the Irving-Williams series5 (Mn2+ < Fe2+ < Co2+ < Ni2+ < Cu2+ > Zn2+) with few exceptions6,7. Accordingly, metalloproteins overwhelmingly bind Cu2+ and Zn2+ in isolation, regardless of the nature of their active sites and their cognate metal ions1,3,8. This led organisms to evolve complex homeostatic machinery and non-equilibrium strategies to achieve correct metal speciation1,3,8-10. Here we report an artificial dimeric protein, (AB)2, that thermodynamically overcomes the Irving-Williams restrictions in vitro and in cells, favouring the binding of lower-Irving-Williams transition metals over Cu2+, the most dominant ion in the Irving-Williams series. Counter to the convention in molecular design of achieving specificity through structural preorganization, (AB)2 was deliberately designed to be flexible. This flexibility enabled (AB)2 to adopt mutually exclusive, metal-dependent conformational states, which led to the discovery of structurally coupled coordination sites that disfavour Cu2+ ions by enforcing an unfavourable coordination geometry. Aside from highlighting flexibility as a valuable element in protein design, our results illustrate design principles for constructing selective metal sequestration agents.
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- Tae Su Choi
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
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Bacterial Transcriptional Regulators: A Road Map for Functional, Structural, and Biophysical Characterization. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23042179. [PMID: 35216300 PMCID: PMC8879271 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23042179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The different niches through which bacteria move during their life cycle require a fast response to the many environmental queues they encounter. The sensing of these stimuli and their correct response is driven primarily by transcriptional regulators. This kind of protein is involved in sensing a wide array of chemical species, a process that ultimately leads to the regulation of gene transcription. The allosteric-coupling mechanism of sensing and regulation is a central aspect of biological systems and has become an important field of research during the last decades. In this review, we summarize the state-of-the-art techniques applied to unravel these complex mechanisms. We introduce a roadmap that may serve for experimental design, depending on the answers we seek and the initial information we have about the system of study. We also provide information on databases containing available structural information on each family of transcriptional regulators. Finally, we discuss the recent results of research about the allosteric mechanisms of sensing and regulation involving many transcriptional regulators of interest, highlighting multipronged strategies and novel experimental techniques. The aim of the experiments discussed here was to provide a better understanding at a molecular level of how bacteria adapt to the different environmental threats they face.
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The native state conformational heterogeneity in the energy landscape of protein folding. Biophys Chem 2022; 283:106761. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2022.106761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Mazzei L, Musiani F, Żerko S, Koźminski W, Cianci M, Beniamino Y, Ciurli S, Zambelli B. Structure, dynamics, and function of SrnR, a transcription factor for nickel-dependent gene expression. Metallomics 2021; 13:6445039. [PMID: 34850061 DOI: 10.1093/mtomcs/mfab069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Streptomyces griseus, a bacterium producing antibacterial drugs and featuring possible application in phytoremediation, expresses two metal-dependent superoxide dismutase (SOD) enzymes, containing either Fe(II) or Ni(II) in their active site. In particular, the alternative expression of the two proteins occurs in a metal-dependent mode, with the Fe(II)-enzyme gene (sodF) repressed at high intracellular Ni(II) concentrations by a two-component system (TCS). This complex involves two proteins, namely SgSrnR and SgSrnQ, which represent the transcriptional regulator and the Ni(II) sensor of the system, respectively. SgSrnR belongs to the ArsR/SmtB family of metal-dependent transcription factors; in the apo-form and in the absence of SgSrnQ, it can bind the DNA operator of sodF, upregulating gene transcription. According to a recently proposed hypothesis, Ni(II) binding to SgSrnQ would promote its interaction with SgSrnR, causing the release of the complex from DNA and the consequent downregulation of the sodF expression. SgSrnQ is predicted to be highly disordered, thus the understanding, at the molecular level, of how the SgSrnR/SgSrnQ TCS specifically responds to Ni(II) requires the knowledge of the structural, dynamic, and functional features of SgSrnR. These were investigated synergistically in this work using X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, atomistic molecular dynamics calculations, isothermal titration calorimetry, and in silico molecular docking. The results reveal that the homodimeric apo-SgSrnR binds to its operator in a two-step process that involves the more rigid globular portion of the protein and leaves its largely disordered regions available to possibly interact with the disordered SgSrnQ in a Ni-dependent process.
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- Luca Mazzei
- Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Fanin 40, I-40127 Bologna. Italy
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- Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Fanin 40, I-40127 Bologna. Italy
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Via Brecce Bianche, I-60131 Ancona, Italy
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- Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Fanin 40, I-40127 Bologna. Italy
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- Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Fanin 40, I-40127 Bologna. Italy
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- Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT), University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Fanin 40, I-40127 Bologna. Italy
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Silvers R, Stephan JR, Griffin RG, Nolan EM. Molecular Basis of Ca(II)-Induced Tetramerization and Transition-Metal Sequestration in Human Calprotectin. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:18073-18090. [PMID: 34699194 PMCID: PMC8643164 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Human calprotectin (CP, S100A8/S100A9 oligomer, MRP8/MRP14 oligomer) is an abundant innate immune protein that contributes to the host metal-withholding response. Its ability to sequester transition metal nutrients from microbial pathogens depends on a complex interplay of Ca(II) binding and self-association, which converts the αβ heterodimeric apo protein into a Ca(II)-bound (αβ)2 heterotetramer that displays enhanced transition metal affinities, antimicrobial activity, and protease stability. A paucity of structural data on the αβ heterodimer has hampered molecular understanding of how Ca(II) binding enables CP to exert its metal-sequestering innate immune function. We report solution NMR data that reveal how Ca(II) binding affects the structure and dynamics of the CP αβ heterodimer. These studies provide a structural model in which the apo αβ heterodimer undergoes conformational exchange and switches between two states, a tetramerization-incompetent or "inactive" state and a tetramerization-competent or "active" state. Ca(II) binding to the EF-hands of the αβ heterodimer causes the active state to predominate, resulting in self-association and formation of the (αβ)2 heterotetramer. Moreover, Ca(II) binding causes local and allosteric ordering of the His3Asp and His6 metal-binding sites. Ca(II) binding to the noncanonical EF-hand of S100A9 positions (A9)D30 and organizes the His3Asp site. Remarkably, Ca(II) binding causes allosteric effects in the C-terminal region of helix αIV of S100A9, which stabilize the α-helicity at positions H91 and H95 and thereby organize the functionally versatile His6 site. Collectively, this study illuminates the molecular basis for how CP responds to high extracellular Ca(II) concentrations, which enables its metal-sequestering host-defense function.
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- Robert Silvers
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
- Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
- Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Kumar A, Jernigan RL. Ligand Binding Introduces Significant Allosteric Shifts in the Locations of Protein Fluctuations. Front Mol Biosci 2021; 8:733148. [PMID: 34540902 PMCID: PMC8440829 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.733148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Allostery is usually considered to be a mechanism for transmission of signals associated with physical or dynamic changes in some part of a protein. Here, we investigate the changes in fluctuations across the protein upon ligand binding based on the fluctuations computed with elastic network models. These results suggest that binding reduces the fluctuations at the binding site but increases fluctuations at remote sites, but not to fully compensating extents. If there were complete conservation of entropy, then only the enthalpies of binding would matter and not the entropies; however this does not appear to be the case. Experimental evidence also suggests that energies and entropies of binding can compensate but that the extent of compensation varies widely from case to case. Our results do however always show transmission of an allosteric signal to distant locations where the fluctuations are increased. These fluctuations could be used to compute entropies to improve evaluations of the thermodynamics of binding. We also show the allosteric relationship between peptide binding in the GroEL trans-ring that leads directly to the release of GroES from the GroEL-GroES cis-ring. This finding provides an example of how calculating these changes to protein dynamics induced by the binding of an allosteric ligand can regulate protein function and mechanism.
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- Ambuj Kumar
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
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- Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
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Bandyopadhyay S, Chaudhury S, Mehta D, Ramesh A. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Discovery of iron-sensing bacterial riboswitches. Nat Chem Biol 2021; 17:924. [PMID: 33020663 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-00665-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2019] [Revised: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Siladitya Bandyopadhyay
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India
- SASTRA University, Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur, India
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India
- SASTRA University, Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur, India
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- National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India.
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Iorio A, Roche J, Engilberge S, Coquelle N, Girard E, Sterpone F, Madern D. Biochemical, structural and dynamical studies reveal strong differences in the thermal-dependent allosteric behavior of two extremophilic lactate dehydrogenases. J Struct Biol 2021; 213:107769. [PMID: 34229075 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2021.107769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In this work, we combined biochemical and structural investigations with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to analyze the very different thermal-dependent allosteric behavior of two lactate dehydrogenases (LDH) from thermophilic bacteria. We found that the enzyme from Petrotoga mobilis (P. mob) necessitates an absolute requirement of the allosteric effector (fructose 1, 6-bisphosphate) to ensure functionality. In contrast, even without allosteric effector, the LDH from Thermus thermophilus (T. the) is functional when the temperature is raised. We report the crystal structure of P. mob LDH in the Apo state solved at 1.9 Å resolution. We used this structure and the one from T. the, obtained previously, as a starting point for MD simulations at various temperatures. We found clear differences between the thermal dynamics, which accounts for the behavior of the two enzymes. Our work demonstrates that, within an allosteric enzyme, some areas act as local gatekeepers of signal transmission, allowing the enzyme to populate either the T-inactive or the R-active states with different degrees of stringency.
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- Antonio Iorio
- CNRS, Université de Paris, UPR 9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Paris, France Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique-Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 38000 Grenoble, France; Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Division of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Large Scale Structures Group, Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Cedex 9 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CEA, CNRS, IBS, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- CNRS, Université de Paris, UPR 9080, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, Paris, France Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique-Fondation Edmond de Rothschild, PSL Research University, Paris, France.
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The Picornavirus Precursor 3CD Has Different Conformational Dynamics Compared to 3C pro and 3D pol in Functionally Relevant Regions. Viruses 2021; 13:v13030442. [PMID: 33803479 PMCID: PMC8001691 DOI: 10.3390/v13030442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2021] [Revised: 03/06/2021] [Accepted: 03/08/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Viruses have evolved numerous strategies to maximize the use of their limited genetic material, including proteolytic cleavage of polyproteins to yield products with different functions. The poliovirus polyprotein 3CD is involved in important protein-protein, protein-RNA and protein-lipid interactions in viral replication and infection. It is a precursor to the 3C protease and 3D RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, but has different protease specificity, is not an active polymerase, and participates in other interactions differently than its processed products. These functional differences are poorly explained by the known X-ray crystal structures. It has been proposed that functional differences might be due to differences in conformational dynamics between 3C, 3D and 3CD. To address this possibility, we conducted nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy experiments, including multiple quantum relaxation dispersion, chemical exchange saturation transfer and methyl spin-spin relaxation, to probe conformational dynamics across multiple timescales. Indeed, these studies identified differences in conformational dynamics in functionally important regions, including enzyme active sites, and RNA and lipid binding sites. Expansion of the conformational ensemble available to 3CD may allow it to perform additional functions not observed in 3C and 3D alone despite having nearly identical lowest-energy structures.
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Osman D, Cooke A, Young TR, Deery E, Robinson NJ, Warren MJ. The requirement for cobalt in vitamin B 12: A paradigm for protein metalation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2021; 1868:118896. [PMID: 33096143 PMCID: PMC7689651 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2020.118896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Revised: 10/13/2020] [Accepted: 10/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Vitamin B12, cobalamin, is a cobalt-containing ring-contracted modified tetrapyrrole that represents one of the most complex small molecules made by nature. In prokaryotes it is utilised as a cofactor, coenzyme, light sensor and gene regulator yet has a restricted role in assisting only two enzymes within specific eukaryotes including mammals. This deployment disparity is reflected in another unique attribute of vitamin B12 in that its biosynthesis is limited to only certain prokaryotes, with synthesisers pivotal in establishing mutualistic microbial communities. The core component of cobalamin is the corrin macrocycle that acts as the main ligand for the cobalt. Within this review we investigate why cobalt is paired specifically with the corrin ring, how cobalt is inserted during the biosynthetic process, how cobalt is made available within the cell and explore the cellular control of cobalt and cobalamin levels. The partitioning of cobalt for cobalamin biosynthesis exemplifies how cells assist metalation.
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- Deenah Osman
- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK; Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NJ, UK.
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK; Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NJ, UK.
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- Department of Biosciences, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK; Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.
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- School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NJ, UK; Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UQ, UK; Biomedical Research Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.
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Baksh KA, Pichugin D, Prosser RS, Zamble DB. Allosteric regulation of the nickel-responsive NikR transcription factor from Helicobacter pylori. J Biol Chem 2021; 296:100069. [PMID: 33199369 PMCID: PMC7949043 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.015459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2020] [Revised: 11/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Nickel is essential for the survival of the pathogenic bacteria Helicobacter pylori in the fluctuating pH of the human stomach. Due to its inherent toxicity and limited availability, nickel homeostasis is maintained through a network of pathways that are coordinated by the nickel-responsive transcription factor NikR. Nickel binding to H. pylori NikR (HpNikR) induces an allosteric response favoring a conformation that can bind specific DNA motifs, thereby serving to either activate or repress transcription of specific genes involved in nickel homeostasis and acid adaptation. Here, we examine how nickel induces this response using 19F-NMR, which reveals conformational and dynamic changes associated with nickel-activated DNA complex formation. HpNikR adopts an equilibrium between an open state and DNA-binding competent states regardless of nickel binding, but a higher level of dynamics is observed in the absence of metal. Nickel binding shifts the equilibrium toward the binding-competent states and decreases the mobility of the DNA-binding domains. The nickel-bound protein is then able to adopt a single conformation upon binding a target DNA promoter. Zinc, which does not promote high-affinity DNA binding, is unable to induce the same allosteric response as nickel. We propose that the allosteric mechanism of nickel-activated DNA binding by HpNikR is driven by conformational selection.
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- Karina A Baksh
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Capdevila DA, Walsh BJC, Zhang Y, Dietrich C, Gonzalez-Gutierrez G, Giedroc DP. Structural basis for persulfide-sensing specificity in a transcriptional regulator. Nat Chem Biol 2020; 17:65-70. [PMID: 33106663 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-00671-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Cysteine thiol-based transcriptional regulators orchestrate the coordinated regulation of redox homeostasis and other cellular processes by 'sensing' or detecting a specific redox-active molecule, which in turn activates the transcription of a specific detoxification pathway. The extent to which these sensors are truly specific in cells for a singular class of reactive small-molecule stressors, for example, reactive oxygen or sulfur species, is largely unknown. Here, we report structural and mechanistic insights into the thiol-based transcriptional repressor SqrR, which reacts exclusively with oxidized sulfur species such as persulfides, to yield a tetrasulfide bridge that inhibits DNA operator-promoter binding. Evaluation of crystallographic structures of SqrR in various derivatized states, coupled with the results of a mass spectrometry-based kinetic profiling strategy, suggest that persulfide selectivity is determined by structural frustration of the disulfide form. These findings led to the identification of an uncharacterized repressor from the bacterial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii as a persulfide sensor.
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- Daiana A Capdevila
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.,Fundación Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
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Antelo GT, Vila AJ, Giedroc DP, Capdevila DA. Molecular Evolution of Transition Metal Bioavailability at the Host-Pathogen Interface. Trends Microbiol 2020; 29:441-457. [PMID: 32951986 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2020.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Revised: 08/01/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The molecular evolution of the adaptive response at the host-pathogen interface has been frequently referred to as an 'arms race' between the host and bacterial pathogens. The innate immune system employs multiple strategies to starve microbes of metals. Pathogens, in turn, develop successful strategies to maintain access to bioavailable metal ions under conditions of extreme restriction of transition metals, or nutritional immunity. However, the processes by which evolution repurposes or re-engineers host and pathogen proteins to perform or refine new functions have been explored only recently. Here we review the molecular evolution of several human metalloproteins charged with restricting bacterial access to transition metals. These include the transition metal-chelating S100 proteins, natural resistance-associated macrophage protein-1 (NRAMP-1), transferrin, lactoferrin, and heme-binding proteins. We examine their coevolution with bacterial transition metal acquisition systems, involving siderophores and membrane-spanning metal importers, and the biological specificity of allosteric transcriptional regulatory proteins tasked with maintaining bacterial metallostasis. We also discuss the evolution of metallo-β-lactamases; this illustrates how rapid antibiotic-mediated evolution of a zinc metalloenzyme obligatorily occurs in the context of host-imposed nutritional immunity.
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- Giuliano T Antelo
- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), C1405BWE Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR, CONICET-UNR), Ocampo and Esmeralda, S2002LRK Rosario, Argentina; Área Biofísica, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, S2002LRK Rosario, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.
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- Fundación Instituto Leloir, Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de Buenos Aires (IIBBA-CONICET), C1405BWE Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Kocyła A, Tran JB, Krężel A. Galvanization of Protein-Protein Interactions in a Dynamic Zinc Interactome. Trends Biochem Sci 2020; 46:64-79. [PMID: 32958327 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2020.08.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2020] [Revised: 08/10/2020] [Accepted: 08/19/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The presence of Zn2+ at protein-protein interfaces modulates complex function, stability, and introduces structural flexibility/complexity, chemical selectivity, and reversibility driven in a Zn2+-dependent manner. Recent studies have demonstrated that dynamically changing Zn2+ affects numerous cellular processes, including protein-protein communication and protein complex assembly. How Zn2+-involved protein-protein interactions (ZPPIs) are formed and dissociate and how their stability and reactivity are driven in a zinc interactome remain poorly understood, mostly due to experimental obstacles. Here, we review recent research advances on the role of Zn2+ in the formation of interprotein sites, their architecture, function, and stability. Moreover, we underline the importance of zinc networks in intersystemic communication and highlight bioinformatic and experimental challenges required for the identification and investigation of ZPPIs.
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- Anna Kocyła
- Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Joliot-Curie 14a, 50-383 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Joliot-Curie 14a, 50-383 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Wrocław, Joliot-Curie 14a, 50-383 Wrocław, Poland.
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Roy P, Roy S, Sengupta N. Disulfide Reduction Allosterically Destabilizes the β-Ladder Subdomain Assembly within the NS1 Dimer of ZIKV. Biophys J 2020; 119:1525-1537. [PMID: 32946768 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.08.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The Zika virus (ZIKV) was responsible for a recent debilitating epidemic that till date has no cure. A potential way to reduce ZIKV virulence is to limit the action of the nonstructural proteins involved in its viral replication. One such protein, NS1, encoded as a monomer by the viral genome, plays a major role via symmetric oligomerization. We examine the homodimeric structure of the dominant β-ladder segment of NS1 with extensive all atom molecular dynamics. We find it stably bounded by two spatially separated interaction clusters (C1 and C2) with significant differences in the nature of their interactions. Four pairs of distal, intramonomeric disulfide bonds are found to be coupled to the stability, local structure, and wettability of the interfacial region. Symmetric reduction of the intramonomeric disulfides triggers marked dynamical heterogeneity, interfacial wettability, and asymmetric salt-bridging propensity. Harnessing the model-free Lipari-Szabo based formalism for estimation of conformational entropy (Sconf), we find clear signatures of heterogeneity in the monomeric conformational entropies. The observed asymmetry, very small in the unperturbed state, expands significantly in the reduced states. This allosteric effect is most noticeable in the electrostatically bound C2 cluster that underlies the greatest stability in the unperturbed state. Allosteric induction of conformational and thermodynamic asymmetry is expected to affect the pathways leading to symmetric higher-ordered oligomerization, and thereby affect crucial replication pathways.
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- Priti Roy
- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India
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- Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CBS), University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari, Mumbai, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India.
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Gorman SD, Winston DS, Sahu D, Boehr DD. Different Solvent and Conformational Entropy Contributions to the Allosteric Activation and Inhibition Mechanisms of Yeast Chorismate Mutase. Biochemistry 2020; 59:2528-2540. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Scott D. Gorman
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Drake JA, Pettitt BM. Physical Chemistry of the Protein Backbone: Enabling the Mechanisms of Intrinsic Protein Disorder. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:4379-4390. [PMID: 32349480 PMCID: PMC7384255 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c02489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Over the last two decades it has become clear that well-defined structure is not a requisite for proteins to properly function. Rather, spectra of functionally competent, structurally disordered states have been uncovered requiring canonical paradigms in molecular biology to be revisited or reimagined. It is enticing and oftentimes practical to divide the proteome into structured and unstructured, or disordered, proteins. While function, composition, and structural properties largely differ, these two classes of protein are built upon the same scaffold, namely, the protein backbone. The versatile physicochemical properties of the protein backbone must accommodate structural disorder, order, and transitions between these states. In this review, we survey these properties through the conceptual lenses of solubility and conformational populations and in the context of protein-disorder mediated phenomena (e.g., phase separation, order-disorder transitions, allostery). Particular attention is paid to the results of computational studies, which, through thermodynamic decomposition and dissection of molecular interactions, can provide valuable mechanistic insight and testable hypotheses to guide further solution experiments. Lastly, we discuss changes in the dynamics of side chains and order-disorder transitions of the protein backbone as two modes or realizations of "entropic reservoirs" capable of tuning coupled thermodynamic processes.
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- Justin A Drake
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555, Texas, United States
- Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin 78712, Texas, United States
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555, Texas, United States
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Bhat AS, Dustin Schaeffer R, Kinch L, Medvedev KE, Grishin NV. Recent advances suggest increased influence of selective pressure in allostery. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2020; 62:183-188. [PMID: 32302874 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2020.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Revised: 02/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Allosteric regulation of protein functions is ubiquitous in organismal biology, but the principles governing its evolution are not well understood. Here we discuss recent studies supporting the large-scale existence of latent allostery in ancestor proteins of superfamilies. As suggested, the evolution of allostery could be driven by the need for specificity in paralogs of slow evolving protein complexes with conserved active sites. The same slow evolution is displayed by purifying selection exhibited in allosteric proteins with somatic mutations involved in cancer, where disease-associated mutations are enriched in both orthosteric and allosteric sites. Consequently, disease-associated variants can be used to identify druggable allosteric sites that are specific for paralogs in protein superfamilies with otherwise similar functions.
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- Archana S Bhat
- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9050, United States
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9050, United States
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9050, United States
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9050, United States
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- Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9050, United States; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9050, United States.
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Allosteric Activation of PI3Kα Results in Dynamic Access to Catalytically Competent Conformations. Structure 2020; 28:465-474.e5. [PMID: 32049032 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2020.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2019] [Revised: 10/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Class I phosphoinositide-3-kinases (PI3Ks) phosphorylate PIP2 at its 3' inositol position to generate PIP3, a second messenger that influences signaling cascades regulating cellular growth, survival, and proliferation. Previous studies have suggested that PI3Kα activation involves dislodging the p85α nSH2 domain from the p110α catalytic subunit by binding activated receptor tyrosine kinases. We carried out molecular dynamics simulations to determine, mechanistically and structurally, how PI3Kα conformations are influenced by physiological effectors and the nSH2 domain. We demonstrate that changes in protein dynamics mediated by allosteric regulation significantly increase the population of catalytically competent states without changing the enzyme ground-state structure. Furthermore, we demonstrate that modulation of active-site residue interactions with enzyme substrates can reciprocally influence nSH2 domain dynamics. Together, these results suggest that dynamic allostery plays a role in populating the catalytically competent conformation of PI3Kα, and provide a key platform for the design of novel chemotherapeutic PI3Kα inhibitors.
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Baksh KA, Zamble DB. Allosteric control of metal-responsive transcriptional regulators in bacteria. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:1673-1684. [PMID: 31857375 PMCID: PMC7008368 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.rev119.011444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Many transition metals are essential trace nutrients for living organisms, but they are also cytotoxic in high concentrations. Bacteria maintain the delicate balance between metal starvation and toxicity through a complex network of metal homeostasis pathways. These systems are coordinated by the activities of metal-responsive transcription factors-also known as metal-sensor proteins or metalloregulators-that are tuned to sense the bioavailability of specific metals in the cell in order to regulate the expression of genes encoding proteins that contribute to metal homeostasis. Metal binding to a metalloregulator allosterically influences its ability to bind specific DNA sequences through a variety of intricate mechanisms that lie on a continuum between large conformational changes and subtle changes in internal dynamics. This review summarizes recent advances in our understanding of how metal sensor proteins respond to intracellular metal concentrations. In particular, we highlight the allosteric mechanisms used for metal-responsive regulation of several prokaryotic single-component metalloregulators, and we briefly discuss current open questions of how metalloregulators function in bacterial cells. Understanding the regulation and function of metal-responsive transcription factors is a fundamental aspect of metallobiochemistry and is important for gaining insights into bacterial growth and virulence.
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- Karina A Baksh
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada; Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada.
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East KW, Newton JC, Morzan UN, Narkhede Y, Acharya A, Skeens E, Jogl G, Batista VS, Palermo G, Lisi GP. Allosteric Motions of the CRISPR-Cas9 HNH Nuclease Probed by NMR and Molecular Dynamics. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:1348-1358. [PMID: 31885264 PMCID: PMC7497131 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b10521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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CRISPR-Cas9 is a widely employed genome-editing tool with functionality reliant on the ability of the Cas9 endonuclease to introduce site-specific breaks in double-stranded DNA. In this system, an intriguing allosteric communication has been suggested to control its DNA cleavage activity through flexibility of the catalytic HNH domain. Here, solution NMR experiments and a novel Gaussian-accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD) simulation method are used to capture the structural and dynamic determinants of allosteric signaling within the HNH domain. We reveal the existence of a millisecond time scale dynamic pathway that spans HNH from the region interfacing the adjacent RuvC nuclease and propagates up to the DNA recognition lobe in full-length CRISPR-Cas9. These findings reveal a potential route of signal transduction within the CRISPR-Cas9 HNH nuclease, advancing our understanding of the allosteric pathway of activation. Further, considering the role of allosteric signaling in the specificity of CRISPR-Cas9, this work poses the mechanistic basis for novel engineering efforts aimed at improving its genome-editing capability.
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- Kyle W. East
- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 , United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 52512, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 , United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 , United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 52512, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, United States
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NMR and computational methods for molecular resolution of allosteric pathways in enzyme complexes. Biophys Rev 2019; 12:155-174. [PMID: 31838649 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-019-00609-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Allostery is a ubiquitous biological mechanism in which a distant binding site is coupled to and drastically alters the function of a catalytic site in a protein. Allostery provides a high level of spatial and temporal control of the integrity and activity of biomolecular assembles composed of proteins, nucleic acids, or small molecules. Understanding the physical forces that drive allosteric coupling is critical to harnessing this process for use in bioengineering, de novo protein design, and drug discovery. Current microscopic models of allostery highlight the importance of energetics, structural rearrangements, and conformational fluctuations, and in this review, we discuss the synergistic use of solution NMR spectroscopy and computational methods to probe these phenomena in allosteric systems, particularly protein-nucleic acid complexes. This combination of experimental and theoretical techniques facilitates an unparalleled detection of subtle changes to structural and dynamic equilibria in biomolecules with atomic resolution, and we provide a detailed discussion of specialized NMR experiments as well as the complementary methods that provide valuable insight into allosteric pathways in silico. Lastly, we highlight two case studies to demonstrate the adaptability of this approach to enzymes of varying size and mechanistic complexity.
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Drake JA, Pettitt BM. Thermodynamics of Conformational Transitions in a Disordered Protein Backbone Model. Biophys J 2019; 114:2799-2810. [PMID: 29925017 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.04.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 03/28/2018] [Accepted: 04/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Conformational entropy is expected to contribute significantly to the thermodynamics of structural transitions in intrinsically disordered proteins or regions in response to protein/ligand binding, posttranslational modifications, and environmental changes. We calculated the backbone (dihedral) conformational entropy of oligoglycine (GlyN), a protein backbone mimic and model intrinsically disordered region, as a function of chain length (N=3, 4, 5, 10, and 15) from simulations using three different approaches. The backbone conformational entropy scales linearly with chain length with a slope consistent with the entropy of folding of well-structured proteins. The entropic contributions of second-order dihedral correlations are predominantly through intraresidue ϕ-ψ pairs, suggesting that oligoglycine may be thermodynamically modeled as a system of independent glycine residues. We find the backbone conformational entropy to be largely independent of global structural parameters, like the end-to-end distance and radius of gyration. We introduce a framework referred to herein as "ensemble confinement" to estimate the loss (gain) of conformational free energy and its entropic component when individual residues are constrained to (released from) particular regions of the ϕ-ψ map. Quantitatively, we show that our protein backbone model resists ordering/folding with a significant, unfavorable ensemble confinement free energy because of the loss of a substantial portion of the absolute backbone entropy. Proteins can couple this free-energy reservoir to distal binding events as a regulatory mechanism to promote or suppress binding.
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- Justin A Drake
- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
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- Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
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Dynamic regulatory features of the protein tyrosine kinases. Biochem Soc Trans 2019; 47:1101-1116. [PMID: 31395755 DOI: 10.1042/bst20180590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2019] [Revised: 07/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The SRC, Abelson murine leukemia viral oncogene homolog 1, TEC and C-terminal SRC Kinase families of non-receptor tyrosine kinases (collectively the Src module kinases) mediate an array of cellular signaling processes and are therapeutic targets in many disease states. Crystal structures of Src modules kinases provide valuable insights into the regulatory mechanisms that control activation and generate a framework from which drug discovery can advance. The conformational ensembles visited by these multidomain kinases in solution are also key features of the regulatory machinery controlling catalytic activity. Measurement of dynamic motions within kinases substantially augments information derived from crystal structures. In this review, we focus on a body of work that has transformed our understanding of non-receptor tyrosine kinase regulation from a static view to one that incorporates how fluctuations in conformational ensembles and dynamic motions influence activation status. Regulatory dynamic networks are often shared across and between kinase families while specific dynamic behavior distinguishes unique regulatory mechanisms for select kinases. Moreover, intrinsically dynamic regions of kinases likely play important regulatory roles that have only been partially explored. Since there is clear precedence that kinase inhibitors can exploit specific dynamic features, continued efforts to define conformational ensembles and dynamic allostery will be key to combating drug resistance and devising alternate treatments for kinase-associated diseases.
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Sapienza PJ, Popov KI, Mowrey DD, Falk BT, Dokholyan NV, Lee AL. Inter-Active Site Communication Mediated by the Dimer Interface β-Sheet in the Half-the-Sites Enzyme, Thymidylate Synthase. Biochemistry 2019; 58:3302-3313. [PMID: 31283187 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Thymidylate synthase (TS) is a dimeric enzyme conserved in all life forms that exhibits the allosteric feature of half-the-sites activity. Neither the reason for nor the mechanism of this phenomenon is understood. We used a combined nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and molecular dynamics approach to study a stable intermediate preceding hydride transfer, which is the rate-limiting and half-the-sites step. In NMR titrations with ligands leading to this intermediate, we measured chemical shifts of the apoenzyme (lig0), the saturated holoenzyme (lig2), and the typically elusive singly bound (lig1) states. Approximately 40 amides showed quartet patterns providing direct NMR evidence of coupling between the active site and probes >30 Å away in the distal subunit. Quartet peak patterns have symmetrical character, indicating reciprocity in communicating the first and second binding events to the distal protomer. Quartets include key catalytic residues and map to the dimer interface β-sheet, which also represents the shortest path between the two active sites. Simulations corroborate the coupling observed in solution in that there is excellent overlap between quartet residues and main-chain atoms having intersubunit cross-correlated motions. Simulations identify five hot spot residues, three of which lie at the kink in the unique β-bulge abutting the active sites on either end of the sheet. Interstrand cross-correlated motions become more organized and pronounced as the enzyme progresses from lig0 to lig1 and ultimately lig2. Coupling in the apparently symmetrical complex has implications for half-the-sites reactivity and potentially resolves the paradox of inequivalent TS active sites despite the vast majority of X-ray structures appearing to be symmetrical.
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- Paul J Sapienza
- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599-7355 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , Penn State College of Medicine , Hershey , Pennsylvania 17033 , United States.,Department of Chemistry and Department of Biomedical Engineering , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , Pennsylvania 16801 , United States
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- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599-7355 , United States.,Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine , The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill , North Carolina 27599 , United States
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Jordan MR, Wang J, Weiss A, Skaar EP, Capdevila DA, Giedroc DP. Mechanistic Insights into the Metal-Dependent Activation of Zn II-Dependent Metallochaperones. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:13661-13672. [PMID: 31247880 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Members of the COG0523 subfamily of candidate GTPase metallochaperones function in bacterial transition-metal homeostasis, but the nature of the cognate metal, mechanism of metal transfer, and identification of target protein(s) for metal delivery remain open questions. Here, we explore the multifunctionality of members of the subfamily linked to delivering ZnII to apoprotein targets under conditions of host-imposed transition-metal depletion. We examine two zinc-uptake repressor (Zur)-regulated COG0523 family members, each from a major human pathogen, Acinetobacter baumannii (AbZigA) and Staphylococcus aureus (SaZigA), in an effort to develop a model for ZnII metallochaperone activity. ZnII chelator competition experiments reveal one high-affinity (KZn1 ≈ 1010-1011 M-1) metal-binding site in each GTPase, while AbZigA and SaZigA are characterized by an additional one and two (lower-affinity) metal-binding sites, respectively. CoII titrations reveal that both metallochaperones have similar electronic absorption characteristics that indicate the presence of two tetrahedral metal coordination sites. High-affinity metal binding at the CXCC motif activates the GTPase activity of both enzymes, with ZnII more effective than CoII. Both GTPases bind the product, GDP, more tightly in the apoprotein than the ZnII-bound state and exhibit what is best described as a "locked" conformation around the GTP substrate. Negative thermodynamic linkage is observed between nucleotide binding and metal binding, leading to a new mechanistic model for COG0523-catalyzed metal delivery.
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology , Vanderbilt University Medical Center , Nashville , Tennessee 37232 , United States
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology , Vanderbilt University Medical Center , Nashville , Tennessee 37232 , United States
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On the perturbation nature of allostery: sites, mutations, and signal modulation. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2019; 56:18-27. [DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2018.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Revised: 10/27/2018] [Accepted: 10/30/2018] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Ahuja LG, Taylor SS, Kornev AP. Tuning the "violin" of protein kinases: The role of dynamics-based allostery. IUBMB Life 2019; 71:685-696. [PMID: 31063633 DOI: 10.1002/iub.2057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The intricacies of allosteric regulation of protein kinases continue to engage the research community. Allostery, or control from a distance, is seen as a fundamental biomolecular mechanism for proteins. From the traditional methods of conformational selection and induced fit, the field has grown to include the role of protein motions in defining a dynamics-based allosteric approach. Harnessing of these continuous motions in the protein to exert allosteric effects can be defined by a "violin" model that focuses on distributions of protein vibrations as opposed to concerted pathways. According to this model, binding of an allosteric modifier causes global redistribution of dynamics in the protein kinase domain that leads to changes in its catalytic properties. This model is consistent with the "entropy-driven allostery" mechanism proposed by Cooper and Dryden in 1984 and does not require, but does not exclude, any major structural changes. We provide an overview of practical implementation of the violin model and how it stands amidst the other known models of protein allostery. Protein kinases have been described as the biomolecules of interest. © 2019 IUBMB Life, 71(6):685-696, 2019.
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- Lalima G Ahuja
- Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Jiao W, Mittelstädt G, Moggré GJ, Parker EJ. Hinge Twists and Population Shifts Deliver Regulated Catalysis for ATP-PRT in Histidine Biosynthesis. Biophys J 2019; 116:1887-1897. [PMID: 31053263 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.03.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Revised: 03/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Allosteric regulation plays an important role in the control of metabolic flux in biosynthetic pathways. In microorganisms, many enzymes in these pathways adopt different strategies of allostery to allow the tuning of their activities in response to metabolic demand. Thus, it is important to uncover the mechanism of allosteric signal transmission to fully comprehend the complex control of enzyme function and its evolution. ATP-phosphoribosyltransferase (ATP-PRT), as the first enzyme in the histidine biosynthetic pathway, is allosterically regulated by histidine and offers a good platform for the study of allostery. Two forms of ATP-PRT, namely long and short forms, were discovered that show different arrangements of their regulatory machinery. Crystal structures of the long-form ATP-PRT have revealed overall conformational changes in the inhibited state, but the observed changes in the active state are quite subtle, making the elucidation of its allosteric mechanism difficult. Here, we combine computational methods (ligand docking, quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics optimization, and molecular dynamic simulations) with experimental studies to probe the signal transmission between remote allosteric and active sites. Our results reveal that distinct conformational ensembles of the catalytic domain with different dynamic properties exist in the ligand-free and histidine-bound enzymes. These ensembles display different capabilities in supporting the catalytic and allosteric function of ATP-PRT. The findings give insight into the underlying mechanism of allostery and allow us to propose that the hinge twisting within the catalytic domain is the key for both enhancement of catalysis and provision of regulation in ATP-PRT enzymes.
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- Wanting Jiao
- Ferrier Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christschurch, New Zealand.
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- Ferrier Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christschurch, New Zealand
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- Ferrier Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery, Auckland, New Zealand; School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christschurch, New Zealand.
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Protein engineering: the potential of remote mutations. Biochem Soc Trans 2019; 47:701-711. [PMID: 30902926 DOI: 10.1042/bst20180614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2019] [Revised: 01/18/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Engineered proteins, especially enzymes, are now commonly used in many industries owing to their catalytic power, specific binding of ligands, and properties as materials and food additives. As the number of potential uses for engineered proteins has increased, the interest in engineering or designing proteins to have greater stability, activity and specificity has increased in turn. With any rational engineering or design pursuit, the success of these endeavours relies on our fundamental understanding of the systems themselves; in the case of proteins, their structure-dynamics-function relationships. Proteins are most commonly rationally engineered by targeting the residues that we understand to be functionally important, such as enzyme active sites or ligand-binding sites. This means that the majority of the protein, i.e. regions remote from the active- or ligand-binding site, is often ignored. However, there is a growing body of literature that reports on, and rationalises, the successful engineering of proteins at remote sites. This minireview will discuss the current state of the art in protein engineering, with a particular focus on engineering regions that are remote from active- or ligand-binding sites. As the use of protein technologies expands, exploiting the potential improvements made possible through modifying remote regions will become vital if we are to realise the full potential of protein engineering and design.
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He X, Ni D, Lu S, Zhang J. Characteristics of Allosteric Proteins, Sites, and Modulators. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2019; 1163:107-139. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8719-7_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Stetz MA, Caro JA, Kotaru S, Yao X, Marques BS, Valentine KG, Wand AJ. Characterization of Internal Protein Dynamics and Conformational Entropy by NMR Relaxation. Methods Enzymol 2018; 615:237-284. [PMID: 30638531 DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2018.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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Recent studies suggest that the fast timescale motion of methyl-bearing side chains may play an important role in mediating protein activity. These motions have been shown to encapsulate the residual conformational entropy of the folded state that can potentially contribute to the energetics of protein function. Here, we provide an overview of how to characterize these motions using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin relaxation methods. The strengths and limitations of several techniques are highlighted in order to assist with experimental design. Particular emphasis is placed on the practical aspects of sample preparation, data collection, data fitting, and statistical analysis. Additionally, discussion of the recently refined "entropy meter" is presented and its use in converting NMR observables to conformational entropy is illustrated. Taken together, these methods should yield new insights into the complex interplay between structure and dynamics in protein function.
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- Matthew A Stetz
- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Graduate Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Graduate Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Johnson Research Foundation and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States; Graduate Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
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Gavrilov Y, Dagan S, Reich Z, Scherf T, Levy Y. An NMR Confirmation for Increased Folded State Entropy Following Loop Truncation. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:10855-10860. [PMID: 30411894 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b09658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Previous studies conducted on flexible loop regions in proteins revealed that the energetic consequences of changing loop length predominantly arise from the entropic cost of ordering a loop during folding. However, in an earlier study of human acylphosphatase (hmAcP) using experimental and computational approaches, we showed that thermodynamic stabilization upon loop truncation can be attributed mainly to the increased entropy of the folded state. Here, using 15N NMR spectroscopy, we studied the effect of loop truncation on hmAcP backbone dynamics on the picosecond-nanosecond timescale with the aim of confirming the effect of folded state entropy on protein stability. NMR-relaxation-derived N-H squared generalized order parameters reveal that loop truncation results in a significant increase in protein conformational flexibility. Comparison of these results with previously acquired all-atom molecular dynamics simulation, analyzed here in terms of squared generalized NMR order parameters, demonstrates general agreement between the two methods. The NMR study not only provides direct evidence for the enhanced conformational entropy of the folded state of hmAcP upon loop truncation but also gives a quantitative measure of the observed effects.
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O'Rourke KF, Axe JM, D'Amico RN, Sahu D, Boehr DD. Millisecond Timescale Motions Connect Amino Acid Interaction Networks in Alpha Tryptophan Synthase. Front Mol Biosci 2018; 5:92. [PMID: 30467546 PMCID: PMC6236060 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2018.00092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 10/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Tryptophan synthase is a model system for understanding allosteric regulation within enzyme complexes. Amino acid interaction networks were previously delineated in the isolated alpha subunit (αTS) in the absence of the beta subunit (βTS). The amino acid interaction networks were different between the ligand-free enzyme and the enzyme actively catalyzing turnover. Previous X-ray crystallography studies indicated only minor localized changes when ligands bind αTS, and so, structural changes alone could not explain the changes to the amino acid interaction networks. We hypothesized that the network changes could instead be related to changes in conformational dynamics. As such, we conducted nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation studies on different substrate- and products-bound complexes of αTS. Specifically, we collected 15N R2 relaxation dispersion data that reports on microsecond-to-millisecond timescale motion of backbone amide groups. These experiments indicated that there are conformational exchange events throughout αTS. Substrate and product binding change specific motional pathways throughout the enzyme, and these pathways connect the previously identified network residues. These pathways reach the αTS/βTS binding interface, suggesting that the identified dynamic networks may also be important for communication with the βTS subunit.
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- Kathleen F O'Rourke
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
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Boswell ZK, Latham MP. Methyl-Based NMR Spectroscopy Methods for Uncovering Structural Dynamics in Large Proteins and Protein Complexes. Biochemistry 2018; 58:144-155. [PMID: 30336000 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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NMR spectroscopy is particularly adept at site-specifically monitoring dynamic processes in proteins, such as protein folding, domain movements, ligand binding, and side-chain rotations. By coupling the favorable spectroscopic properties of highly dynamic side-chain methyl groups with transverse-relaxation-optimized spectroscopy (TROSY), it is now possible to routinely study such dynamic processes in high-molecular-weight proteins and complexes approaching 1 MDa. In this Perspective, we describe many elegant methyl-based NMR experiments that probe slow (second) to fast (picosecond) dynamics in large systems. To demonstrate the power of these methods, we also provide interesting examples of studies that utilized each methyl-based NMR technique to uncover functionally important dynamics. In many cases, the NMR experiments are paired with site-directed mutagenesis and/or other biochemical assays to put the dynamics and function into context. Our vision of the future of structural biology involves pairing methyl-based NMR spectroscopy with biochemical studies to advance our knowledge of the motions large proteins and macromolecular complexes use to choreograph complex functions. Such studies will be essential in elucidating the critical structural dynamics that underlie function and characterizing alterations in these processes that can lead to human disease.
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- Zachary K Boswell
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Texas Tech University , Lubbock , Texas 79423 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , Texas Tech University , Lubbock , Texas 79423 , United States
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Capdevila DA, Huerta F, Edmonds KA, Le MT, Wu H, Giedroc DP. Tuning site-specific dynamics to drive allosteric activation in a pneumococcal zinc uptake regulator. eLife 2018; 7:37268. [PMID: 30328810 PMCID: PMC6224198 DOI: 10.7554/elife.37268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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MarR (multiple antibiotic resistance repressor) family proteins are bacterial repressors that regulate transcription in response to a wide range of chemical signals. Although specific features of MarR family function have been described, the role of atomic motions in MarRs remains unexplored thus limiting insights into the evolution of allostery in this ubiquitous family of repressors. Here, we provide the first experimental evidence that internal dynamics play a crucial functional role in MarR proteins. Streptococcus pneumoniae AdcR (adhesin-competence repressor) regulates ZnII homeostasis and ZnII functions as an allosteric activator of DNA binding. ZnII coordination triggers a transition from somewhat independent domains to a more compact structure. We identify residues that impact allosteric activation on the basis of ZnII-induced perturbations of atomic motions over a wide range of timescales. These findings appear to reconcile the distinct allosteric mechanisms proposed for other MarRs and highlight the importance of conformational dynamics in biological regulation.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States.,Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States.,Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
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Balaceanu A, Pérez A, Dans PD, Orozco M. Allosterism and signal transfer in DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2018; 46:7554-7565. [PMID: 29905860 PMCID: PMC6125689 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Revised: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 06/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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We analysed the basic mechanisms of signal transmission in DNA and the origins of the allostery exhibited by systems such as the ternary complex BAMHI-DNA-GRDBD. We found that perturbation information generated by a primary protein binding event travels as a wave to distant regions of DNA following a hopping mechanism. However, such a structural perturbation is transient and does not lead to permanent changes in the DNA geometry and interaction properties at the secondary binding site. The BAMHI-DNA-GRDBD allosteric mechanism does not occur through any traditional models: direct (protein-protein), indirect (reorganization of the secondary site) readout or solvent-release. On the contrary, it is generated by a subtle and less common entropy-mediated mechanism, which might have an important role to explain other DNA-mediated cooperative effects.
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- Alexandra Balaceanu
- Joint IRB-BSC Program on Computational Biology, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Joint IRB-BSC Program on Computational Biology, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Joint IRB-BSC Program on Computational Biology, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), 08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Biochemistry and Biomedicine, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Hines JP, Dent MR, Stevens DJ, Burstyn JN. Site-directed spin label electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy as a probe of conformational dynamics in the Fe(III) "locked-off" state of the CO-sensing transcription factor CooA. Protein Sci 2018; 27:1670-1679. [PMID: 30168206 PMCID: PMC6194275 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2018] [Revised: 05/25/2018] [Accepted: 05/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The transcriptional activator CooA belongs to the CRP/FNR (cAMP receptor protein/fumarate and nitrate reductase) superfamily of transcriptional regulators and uses heme to sense carbon monoxide (CO). Effector-driven allosteric activation is well understood in CRP, a CooA homologue. A structural allosteric activation model for CooA exists which parallels that of CRP; however, the role of protein dynamics, which is crucial in CRP, is not well understood in CooA. We employed site-directed spin labeling electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy to probe CooA motions on the μs-ms timescale. We created a series of Cys substitution variants, each with a cysteine residue introduced into a key functional region of the protein: K26C, E60C, F132C, D134C, and S175C. The heme environment and DNA binding affinity of each variant were comparable to those of wild-type CooA, with the exception of F132C, which displayed reduced DNA binding affinity. This observation confirms a previously hypothesized role for Phe132 in transmitting the allosteric CO binding signal. Osmolyte perturbation studies of Fe(III) "locked-off" CooA variants labeled with either MTSL or MAL-6 nitroxide spin labels revealed that multicomponent EPR spectra report on conformational flexibility on the μs-ms timescale. Multiple dynamic populations exist at every site examined in the structurally uncharacterized Fe(III) "locked-off" CooA. This observation suggests that, in direct contrast to effector-free CRP, Fe(III) "locked-off" CooA undergoes conformational exchange on the μs-ms timescale. Importantly, we establish MAL-6 as a spin label with a redox-stable linkage that may be utilized to compare conformational dynamics between functional states of CooA.
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- Judy P. Hines
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonMadisonWisconsin
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonMadisonWisconsin
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonMadisonWisconsin
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonMadisonWisconsin
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