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Singh SK, Siegler N, Pandey H, Yanir N, Popov M, Goldstein-Levitin A, Sadan M, Debs G, Zarivach R, Frank GA, Kass I, Sindelar CV, Zalk R, Gheber L. Noncanonical interaction with microtubules via the N-terminal nonmotor domain is critical for the functions of a bidirectional kinesin. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadi1367. [PMID: 38324691 PMCID: PMC10849588 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi1367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
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Several kinesin-5 motors (kinesin-5s) exhibit bidirectional motility. The mechanism of such motility remains unknown. Bidirectional kinesin-5s share a long N-terminal nonmotor domain (NTnmd), absent in exclusively plus-end-directed kinesins. Here, we combined in vivo, in vitro, and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies to examine the impact of NTnmd mutations on the motor functions of the bidirectional kinesin-5, Cin8. We found that NTnmd deletion mutants exhibited cell viability and spindle localization defects. Using cryo-EM, we examined the structure of a microtubule (MT)-bound motor domain of Cin8, containing part of its NTnmd. Modeling and molecular dynamic simulations based on the cryo-EM map suggested that the NTnmd of Cin8 interacts with the C-terminal tail of β-tubulin. In vitro experiments on subtilisin-treated MTs confirmed this notion. Last, we showed that NTnmd mutants are defective in plus-end-directed motility in single-molecule and antiparallel MT sliding assays. These findings demonstrate that the NTnmd, common to bidirectional kinesin-5s, is critical for their bidirectional motility and intracellular functions.
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- Sudhir K. Singh
- 1Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- 1Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- 1Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- 1Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- 1Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- 1Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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- Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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- 1Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
- Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel
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Nesterov SV, Yaguzhinsky LS. Directed proton transfer from F o to F 1 extends the multifaceted proton functions in ATP synthase. Biophys Rev 2023; 15:859-873. [PMID: 37975013 PMCID: PMC10643803 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-023-01132-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/30/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
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The role of protons in ATP synthase is typically considered to be energy storage in the form of an electrochemical potential, as well as an operating element proving rotation. However, this review emphasizes that protons also act as activators of conformational changes in F1 and as direct participants in phosphorylation reaction. The protons transferred through Fo do not immediately leave to the bulk aqueous phase, but instead provide for the formation of a pH gradient between acidifying Fo and alkalizing F1. It facilitates a directed inter-subunit proton transfer to F1, where they are used in the ATP synthesis reaction. This ensures that the enzyme activity is not limited by a lack of protons in the alkaline mitochondrial matrix or chloroplast stroma. Up to one hundred protons bind to the carboxyl groups of the F1 subunit, altering the electrical interactions between the amino acids of the enzyme. This removes the inhibition of ATP synthase caused by the electrostatic attraction of charged amino acids of the stator and rotor and also makes the enzyme more prone to conformational changes. Protonation occurs during ATP synthesis initiation and during phosphorylation, while deprotonation blocks the rotation inhibiting both synthesis and hydrolysis. Thus, protons participate in the functioning of all main components of ATP synthase molecular machine making it effectively a proton-driven electric machine. The review highlights the key role of protons as a coupling factor in ATP synthase with multifaceted functions, including charge and energy transport, torque generation, facilitation of conformational changes, and participation in the ATP synthesis reaction.
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- Semen V. Nesterov
- Kurchatov Complex of NBICS-Technologies, National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, 123182 Moscow, Russia
- Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141701 Dolgoprudny, Russia
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- Research Center for Molecular Mechanisms of Aging and Age-Related Diseases, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141701 Dolgoprudny, Russia
- Belozersky Research Institute for Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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Ranaivoson FM, Crozet V, Benoit MPMH, Abdalla Mohammed Khalid A, Kikuti C, Sirkia H, El Marjou A, Miserey-Lenkei S, Asenjo AB, Sosa H, Schmidt CF, Rosenfeld SS, Houdusse A. Nucleotide-free structures of KIF20A illuminate atypical mechanochemistry in this kinesin-6. Open Biol 2023; 13:230122. [PMID: 37726093 PMCID: PMC10508983 DOI: 10.1098/rsob.230122] [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: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023] Open
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KIF20A is a critical kinesin for cell division and a promising anti-cancer drug target. The mechanisms underlying its cellular roles remain elusive. Interestingly, unusual coupling between the nucleotide- and microtubule-binding sites of this kinesin-6 has been reported, but little is known about how its divergent sequence leads to atypical motility properties. We present here the first high-resolution structure of its motor domain that delineates the highly unusual structural features of this motor, including a long L6 insertion that integrates into the core of the motor domain and that drastically affects allostery and ATPase activity. Together with the high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy microtubule-bound KIF20A structure that reveals the microtubule-binding interface, we dissect the peculiarities of the KIF20A sequence that influence its mechanochemistry, leading to low motility compared to other kinesins. Structural and functional insights from the KIF20A pre-power stroke conformation highlight the role of extended insertions in shaping the motor's mechanochemical cycle. Essential for force production and processivity is the length of the neck linker in kinesins. We highlight here the role of the sequence preceding the neck linker in controlling its backward docking and show that a neck linker four times longer than that in kinesin-1 is required for the activity of this motor.
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- Fanomezana Moutse Ranaivoson
- Structural Motility, CNRS UMR144, Institut Curie, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
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- Structural Motility, CNRS UMR144, Institut Curie, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
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- Structural Motility, CNRS UMR144, Institut Curie, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
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- Structural Motility, CNRS UMR144, Institut Curie, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
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- Structural Motility, CNRS UMR144, Institut Curie, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
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- Structural Motility, CNRS UMR144, Institut Curie, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Third Institute of Physics-Biophysics, Georg August University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
- Department of Physics and Soft Matter Center, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Structural Motility, CNRS UMR144, Institut Curie, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, 75248 Paris, France
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Benoit MP, Hunter B, Allingham JS, Sosa H. New insights into the mechanochemical coupling mechanism of kinesin-microtubule complexes from their high-resolution structures. Biochem Soc Trans 2023; 51:1505-1520. [PMID: 37560910 PMCID: PMC10586761 DOI: 10.1042/bst20221238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Kinesin motor proteins couple mechanical movements in their motor domain to the binding and hydrolysis of ATP in their nucleotide-binding pocket. Forces produced through this 'mechanochemical' coupling are typically used to mobilize kinesin-mediated transport of cargos along microtubules or microtubule cytoskeleton remodeling. This review discusses the recent high-resolution structures (<4 Å) of kinesins bound to microtubules or tubulin complexes that have resolved outstanding questions about the basis of mechanochemical coupling, and how family-specific modifications of the motor domain can enable its use for motility and/or microtubule depolymerization.
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, U.S.A
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Sladewski TE, Campbell PC, Billington N, D'Ordine A, Cole JL, de Graffenried CL. Cytokinesis in Trypanosoma brucei relies on an orphan kinesin that dynamically crosslinks microtubules. Curr Biol 2023; 33:899-911.e5. [PMID: 36787745 PMCID: PMC10023446 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Revised: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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Many single-celled eukaryotes have complex cell morphologies defined by microtubules arranged into higher-order structures. The auger-like shape of the parasitic protist Trypanosoma brucei (T. brucei) is mediated by a parallel array of microtubules that underlies the plasma membrane. The subpellicular array must be partitioned and segregated using a microtubule-based mechanism during cell division. We previously identified an orphan kinesin, KLIF, that localizes to the ingressing cleavage furrow and is essential for the completion of cytokinesis. We have characterized the biophysical properties of a truncated KLIF construct in vitro to gain mechanistic insight into the function of this novel kinesin. We find that KLIF is a non-processive dimeric kinesin that dynamically crosslinks microtubules. Microtubules crosslinked by KLIF in an antiparallel orientation are translocated relative to one another, while microtubules crosslinked parallel to one another remain static, resulting in the formation of organized parallel bundles. In addition, we find that KLIF stabilizes the alignment of microtubule plus ends. These features provide a mechanistic understanding for how KLIF functions to form a new pole of aligned microtubule plus ends that defines the shape of the new cell posterior, which is an essential requirement for the completion of cytokinesis in T. brucei.
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- Thomas E Sladewski
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Laboratory of Physiology, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda 20892, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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Shibuya A, Suzuki A, Ogo N, Sawada JI, Asai A, Yokoyama H. Crystal structure of the motor domain of centromere-associated protein E in complex with a non-hydrolysable ATP analogue. FEBS Lett 2023; 597:1138-1148. [PMID: 36823439 DOI: 10.1002/1873-3468.14602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Revised: 01/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/25/2023]
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Centromere-associated protein E (CENP-E) is a kinesin motor protein essential for mitosis and a new target for anticancer agents with less side effects. To rationally design anticancer drug candidates based on structure, it is important to determine the three-dimensional structure of the CENP-E motor domain bound to its inhibitor. Here, we report the first crystal structure of the CENP-E motor domain in complex with a non-hydrolysable ATP analogue, adenylyl-imidodiphosphate (AMPPNP). Furthermore, the structure is compared with the ADP-bound form of the CENP-E motor domain as well as the AMPPNP-bound forms of other kinesins. This study indicates that helix α4 of CENP-E participates in the slow binding of CENP-E to microtubules. These results will contribute to the development of anticancer drugs targeting CENP-E.
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- Asuka Shibuya
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan
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- Center for Drug Discovery, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan
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- Center for Drug Discovery, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan
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- Center for Drug Discovery, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Chiba, Japan
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Liu T, Shilliday F, Cook AD, Zeeshan M, Brady D, Tewari R, Sutherland CJ, Roberts AJ, Moores CA. Mechanochemical tuning of a kinesin motor essential for malaria parasite transmission. Nat Commun 2022; 13:6988. [PMID: 36384964 PMCID: PMC9669022 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34710-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Plasmodium species cause malaria and kill hundreds of thousands annually. The microtubule-based motor kinesin-8B is required for development of the flagellated Plasmodium male gamete, and its absence completely blocks parasite transmission. To understand the molecular basis of kinesin-8B's essential role, we characterised the in vitro properties of kinesin-8B motor domains from P. berghei and P. falciparum. Both motors drive ATP-dependent microtubule gliding, but also catalyse ATP-dependent microtubule depolymerisation. We determined these motors' microtubule-bound structures using cryo-electron microscopy, which showed very similar modes of microtubule interaction in which Plasmodium-distinct sequences at the microtubule-kinesin interface influence motor function. Intriguingly however, P. berghei kinesin-8B exhibits a non-canonical structural response to ATP analogue binding such that neck linker docking is not induced. Nevertheless, the neck linker region is required for motility and depolymerisation activities of these motors. These data suggest that the mechanochemistry of Plasmodium kinesin-8Bs is functionally tuned to support flagella formation.
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- Tianyang Liu
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK
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- Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX, UK.
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Indorato RL, DeBonis S, Garcia-Saez I, Skoufias DA. Drug resistance dependent on allostery: A P-loop rigor Eg5 mutant exhibits resistance to allosteric inhibition by STLC. Front Oncol 2022; 12:965455. [PMID: 36313676 PMCID: PMC9597087 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.965455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The mitotic kinesin Eg5 has emerged as a potential anti-mitotic target for the purposes of cancer chemotherapy. Whether clinical resistance to these inhibitors can arise is unclear. We exploited HCT116 cancer cell line to select resistant clones to S-trityl-L-cysteine (STLC), an extensively studied Eg5 loop-L5 binding inhibitor. The STLC resistant clones differed in their resistance to other loop-L5 binding inhibitors but remained sensitive to the ATP class of competitive Eg5 specific inhibitors. Eg5 is still necessary for bipolar spindle formation in the resistant clones since the cells were sensitive to RNAi mediated depletion of Eg5. One clone expressing Eg5(T107N), a dominant point mutation in the P-loop of the ATP binding domain of the motor, appeared to be not only resistant but also dependent on the presence of STLC. Eg5(T107N) expression was associated also with resistance to the clinical relevant loop-L5 Eg5 inhibitors, Arry-520 and ispinesib. Ectopic expression of the Eg5(T107N) mutant in the absence of STLC was associated with strong non-exchangeable binding to microtubules causing them to bundle. Biochemical assays showed that in contrast to the wild type Eg5-STLC complex, the ATP binding site of the Eg5(T107N) is accessible for nucleotide exchange only when the inhibitor is present. We predict that resistance can be overcome by inhibitors that bind to other than the Eg5 loop-L5 binding site having different chemical scaffolds, and that allostery-dependent resistance to Eg5 inhibitors may also occur in cells and may have positive implications in chemotherapy since once diagnosed may be beneficial following cessation of the chemotherapeutic regimen.
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Alexandar SP, Yennamalli RM, Ulaganathan V. Coarse grained modelling highlights the binding differences in the two different allosteric sites of the Human Kinesin EG5 and its implications in inhibitor design. Comput Biol Chem 2022; 99:107708. [PMID: 35717732 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2022.107708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2022] [Revised: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Kinesins involved in mitotic cell division have gained prominence as promising chemotherapy targets. One such kinesin, EG5, a motor protein responsible for cell division, is a validated chemotherapy target with several compounds at various stages of clinical trials. EG5 has an active site and two different allosteric sites that are known to have ligand specificity. Upon ligand binding, EG5's motor domain will no longer undergo nucleotide-dependent conformational changes required to complete the catalytic cycle. However, there is a lack of in-depth knowledge on the mechanism of inhibitor binding to the two different allosteric sites. To understand the EG5's inhibition mechanism and interactions at allosteric sites and other functionally important regions, we generated two coarse-grained models, Gaussian Network Model (GNM) and Anisotropic Network Model (ANM), to identify the dynamics and its correlation to EG5's function. The first three slowest modes of GNM showed marked differences between the various models of EG5. In the first mode, when the inhibitor is bound at allosteric site 1, there is a presence of a hinge region around residue 166, which is not found when the inhibitor is bound at allosteric site 2 or allosteric sites 1 and 2. The third slowest mode showed a distinctive positively correlated region when the inhibitor is bound at allosteric site 2. These differences indicated that the mechanism of binding at allosteric site 1 and allosteric site 2 are unique. Further, it was observed that the simultaneous ligand binding at allosteric sites 1 and 2 shares structural dynamics and interactions that were found while ligand binds at allosteric sites 1 and 2 independently, leading to a new mechanism. Taken together, our observations suggest that there are different mechanisms at play in each inhibitor bound system considered.
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- Soundarya Priya Alexandar
- Molecular Motors Lab, Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical & Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613401, India
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- Department of Bioinformatics, School of Chemical & Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613401, India
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- Molecular Motors Lab, Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical & Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed to be University, Tirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu 613401, India.
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Chavan K, Shukla M, Chauhan ANS, Maji S, Mali G, Bhattacharyya S, Erande RD. Effective Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Natural and Designed Bis(indolyl)methanes via Taurine-Catalyzed Green Approach. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:10438-10446. [PMID: 35382311 PMCID: PMC8973083 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c07258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/04/2022] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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An ecofriendly, inexpensive, and efficient route for synthesizing 3,3'-bis(indolyl)methanes (BIMs) and their derivatives was carried out by an electrophilic substitution reaction of indole with structurally divergent aldehydes and ketones using taurine and water as a green catalyst and solvent, respectively, under sonication conditions. Using water as the only solvent, the catalytic process demonstrated outstanding activity, productivity, and broad functional group tolerance, affording the required BIM natural products and derivatives in excellent yields (59-90%). Furthermore, in silico based structure activity analysis of the synthesized BIM derivatives divulges their potential ability to bind antineoplastic drug target and spindle motor protein kinesin Eg5. The precise binding mode of BIM derivatives with the ATPase motor domain of Eg5 is structurally reminiscent with previously reported allosteric inhibitor Arry520, which is under phase III clinical trials. Nevertheless, detailed analysis of the binding poses indicates that BIM derivatives bind the allosteric pocket of the Eg5 motor domain more robustly than Arry520; moreover, unlike Arry520, BIM binding is found to be resistant to drug-resistant mutations of Eg5. Accordingly, a structure-guided mechanism of Eg5 inhibition by synthesized BIM derivatives is proposed.
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- Kailas
A. Chavan
- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology
Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342037, India
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- Department
of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Indian
Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342037, India
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- Department
of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Indian
Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342037, India
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- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology
Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342037, India
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- Department
of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Indian
Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342037, India
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- Department
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology
Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342037, India
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Cook AD, Roberts AJ, Atherton J, Tewari R, Topf M, Moores CA. Cryo-EM structure of a microtubule-bound parasite kinesin motor and implications for its mechanism and inhibition. J Biol Chem 2021; 297:101063. [PMID: 34375637 PMCID: PMC8526983 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 08/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Plasmodium parasites cause malaria and are responsible annually for hundreds of thousands of deaths. Kinesins are a superfamily of microtubule-dependent ATPases that play important roles in the parasite replicative machinery, which is a potential target for antiparasite drugs. Kinesin-5, a molecular motor that cross-links microtubules, is an established antimitotic target in other disease contexts, but its mechanism in Plasmodium falciparum is unclear. Here, we characterized P. falciparum kinesin-5 (PfK5) using cryo-EM to determine the motor's nucleotide-dependent microtubule-bound structure and introduced 3D classification of individual motors into our microtubule image processing pipeline to maximize our structural insights. Despite sequence divergence in PfK5, the motor exhibits classical kinesin mechanochemistry, including ATP-induced subdomain rearrangement and cover neck bundle formation, consistent with its plus-ended directed motility. We also observed that an insertion in loop5 of the PfK5 motor domain creates a different environment in the well-characterized human kinesin-5 drug-binding site. Our data reveal the possibility for selective inhibition of PfK5 and can be used to inform future exploration of Plasmodium kinesins as antiparasite targets.
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- Alexander D Cook
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
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Goldstein-Levitin A, Pandey H, Allhuzaeel K, Kass I, Gheber L. Intracellular functions and motile properties of bi-directional kinesin-5 Cin8 are regulated by neck linker docking. eLife 2021; 10:71036. [PMID: 34387192 PMCID: PMC8456603 DOI: 10.7554/elife.71036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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In this study, we analyzed intracellular functions and motile properties of neck-linker (NL) variants of the bi-directional S. cerevisiae kinesin-5 motor, Cin8. We also examined – by modeling – the configuration of H-bonds during NL docking. Decreasing the number of stabilizing H-bonds resulted in partially functional variants, as long as a conserved backbone H-bond at the N-latch position (proposed to stabilize the docked conformation of the NL) remained intact. Elimination of this conserved H-bond resulted in production of a non-functional Cin8 variant. Surprisingly, additional H-bond stabilization of the N-latch position, generated by replacement of the NL of Cin8 by sequences of the plus-end directed kinesin-5 Eg5, also produced a nonfunctional variant. In that variant, a single replacement of N-latch asparagine with glycine, as present in Cin8, eliminated the additional H-bond stabilization and rescued the functional defects. We conclude that exact N-latch stabilization during NL docking is critical for the function of bi-directional kinesin-5 Cin8.
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.,InterX LTD, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Benoit MP, Asenjo AB, Paydar M, Dhakal S, Kwok BH, Sosa H. Structural basis of mechano-chemical coupling by the mitotic kinesin KIF14. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3637. [PMID: 34131133 PMCID: PMC8206134 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23581-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
Abstract
KIF14 is a mitotic kinesin whose malfunction is associated with cerebral and renal developmental defects and several cancers. Like other kinesins, KIF14 couples ATP hydrolysis and microtubule binding to the generation of mechanical work, but the coupling mechanism between these processes is still not fully clear. Here we report 20 high-resolution (2.7-3.9 Å) cryo-electron microscopy KIF14-microtubule structures with complementary functional assays. Analysis procedures were implemented to separate coexisting conformations of microtubule-bound monomeric and dimeric KIF14 constructs. The data provide a comprehensive view of the microtubule and nucleotide induced KIF14 conformational changes. It shows that: 1) microtubule binding, the nucleotide species, and the neck-linker domain govern the transition between three major conformations of the motor domain; 2) an undocked neck-linker prevents the nucleotide-binding pocket to fully close and dampens ATP hydrolysis; 3) 13 neck-linker residues are required to assume a stable docked conformation; 4) the neck-linker position controls the hydrolysis rather than the nucleotide binding step; 5) the two motor domains of KIF14 dimers adopt distinct conformations when bound to the microtubule; and 6) the formation of the two-heads-bound-state introduces structural changes in both motor domains of KIF14 dimers. These observations provide the structural basis for a coordinated chemo-mechanical kinesin translocation model.
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- Matthieu P.M.H. Benoit
- grid.251993.50000000121791997Department Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY USA
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- grid.251993.50000000121791997Department Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY USA
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- grid.14848.310000 0001 2292 3357Department of Medicine, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC Canada
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- grid.14848.310000 0001 2292 3357Department of Medicine, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC Canada
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- grid.14848.310000 0001 2292 3357Department of Medicine, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC Canada
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- grid.251993.50000000121791997Department Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY USA
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Quantum-mechanically driven charge polarization and charge transfer are ubiquitous in biomolecular systems, controlling reaction rates, allosteric interactions, ligand-protein binding, membrane transport, and dynamically driven structural transformations. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of these processes require quantum mechanical (QM) information in order to accurately describe their reactive dynamics. However, current techniques-empirical force fields, subsystem approaches, ab initio MD, and machine learning-vary in their ability to achieve a consistent chemical description across multiple atom types, and at scale. Here we present a physics-based, atomistic force field, the ensemble DFT charge-transfer embedded-atom method, in which QM forces are described at a uniform level of theory across all atoms, avoiding the need for explicit solution of the Schrödinger equation or large, precomputed training data sets. Coupling between the electronic and atomistic length scales is effected through an ensemble density functional theory formulation of the embedded-atom method originally developed for elemental materials. Charge transfer is expressed in terms of ensembles of ionic state basis densities of individual atoms, and charge polarization, in terms of atomic excited-state basis densities. This provides a highly compact yet general representation of the force field, encompassing both local and system-wide effects. Charge rearrangement is realized through the evolution of ensemble weights, adjusted at each dynamical time step via chemical potential equalization.
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- Susan R Atlas
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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Shibuya A, Ogo N, Sawada JI, Asai A, Yokoyama H. Structure and comparison of the motor domain of centromere-associated protein E. Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol 2021; 77:280-287. [PMID: 33645531 PMCID: PMC7919405 DOI: 10.1107/s2059798321000176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Centromere-associated protein E (CENP-E) plays an essential role in mitosis and is a target candidate for anticancer drugs. However, it is difficult to design small-molecule inhibitors of CENP-E kinesin motor ATPase activity owing to a lack of structural information on the CENP-E motor domain in complex with its inhibitors. Here, the CENP-E motor domain was crystallized in the presence of an ATP-competitive inhibitor and the crystal structure was determined at 1.9 Å resolution. In the determined structure, ADP was observed instead of the inhibitor in the nucleotide-binding site, even though no ADP was added during protein preparation. Structural comparison with the structures of previously reported CENP-E and those of other kinesins indicates that the determined structure is nearly identical except for several loop regions. However, the retention of ADP in the nucleotide-binding site of the structure strengthens the biochemical view that the release of ADP is a rate-limiting step in the ATPase cycle of CENP-E. These results will contribute to the development of anticancer drugs targeting CENP-E and to understanding the function of kinesin motor domains.
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- Asuka Shibuya
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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- Center for Drug Discovery, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
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- Center for Drug Discovery, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
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- Center for Drug Discovery, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, 52-1 Yada, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, 2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan
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Varela PF, Chenon M, Velours C, Verhey KJ, Ménétrey J, Gigant B. Structural snapshots of the kinesin-2 OSM-3 along its nucleotide cycle: implications for the ATP hydrolysis mechanism. FEBS Open Bio 2021; 11:564-577. [PMID: 33513284 PMCID: PMC7931232 DOI: 10.1002/2211-5463.13101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Motile kinesins are motor proteins that translocate along microtubules as they hydrolyze ATP. They share a conserved motor domain which harbors both ATPase and microtubule-binding activities. An ATP hydrolysis mechanism involving two water molecules has been proposed based on the structure of the kinesin-5 Eg5 bound to an ATP analog. Whether this mechanism is general in the kinesin superfamily remains uncertain. Here, we present structural snapshots of the motor domain of OSM-3 along its nucleotide cycle. OSM-3 belongs to the homodimeric kinesin-2 subfamily and is the Caenorhabditis elegans homologue of human KIF17. OSM-3 bound to ADP or devoid of a nucleotide shows features of ADP-kinesins with a docked neck linker. When bound to an ATP analog, OSM-3 adopts a conformation similar to those of several ATP-like kinesins, either isolated or bound to tubulin. Moreover, the OSM-3 nucleotide-binding site is virtually identical to that of ATP-like Eg5, demonstrating a shared ATPase mechanism. Therefore, our data extend to kinesin-2 the two-water ATP hydrolysis mechanism and further suggest that it is universal within the kinesin superfamily. PROTEIN DATABASE ENTRIES: 7A3Z, 7A40, 7A5E.
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- Paloma F Varela
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Garcia-Saez I, Skoufias DA. Eg5 targeting agents: From new anti-mitotic based inhibitor discovery to cancer therapy and resistance. Biochem Pharmacol 2020; 184:114364. [PMID: 33310050 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2020.114364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Eg5, the product of Kif11 gene, also known as kinesin spindle protein, is a motor protein involved in the proper establishment of a bipolar mitotic spindle. Eg5 is one of the 45 different kinesins coded in the human genome of the kinesin motor protein superfamily. Over the last three decades Eg5 has attracted great interest as a promising new mitotic target. The identification of monastrol as specific inhibitor of the ATPase activity of the motor domain of Eg5 inhibiting the Eg5 microtubule motility in vitro and in cellulo sparked an intense interest in academia and industry to pursue the identification of novel small molecules that target Eg5 in order to be used in cancer chemotherapy based on the anti-mitotic strategy. Several Eg5 inhibitors entered clinical trials. Currently the field is faced with the problem that most of the inhibitors tested exhibited only limited efficacy. However, one Eg5 inhibitor, Arry-520 (clinical name filanesib), has demonstrated clinical efficacy in patients with multiple myeloma and is scheduled to enter phase III clinical trials. At the same time, new trends in Eg5 inhibitor research are emerging, including an increased interest in novel inhibitor binding sites and a focus on drug synergy with established antitumor agents to improve chemotherapeutic efficacy. This review presents an updated view of the structure and function of Eg5-inhibitor complexes, traces the possible development of resistance to Eg5 inhibitors and their potential therapeutic applications, and surveys the current challenges and future directions of this active field in drug discovery.
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- Isabel Garcia-Saez
- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS), 38000 Grenoble, France.
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Atherton J, Hummel JJA, Olieric N, Locke J, Peña A, Rosenfeld SS, Steinmetz MO, Hoogenraad CC, Moores CA. The mechanism of kinesin inhibition by kinesin-binding protein. eLife 2020; 9:e61481. [PMID: 33252036 PMCID: PMC7746232 DOI: 10.7554/elife.61481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 11/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Subcellular compartmentalisation is necessary for eukaryotic cell function. Spatial and temporal regulation of kinesin activity is essential for building these local environments via control of intracellular cargo distribution. Kinesin-binding protein (KBP) interacts with a subset of kinesins via their motor domains, inhibits their microtubule (MT) attachment, and blocks their cellular function. However, its mechanisms of inhibition and selectivity have been unclear. Here we use cryo-electron microscopy to reveal the structure of KBP and of a KBP-kinesin motor domain complex. KBP is a tetratricopeptide repeat-containing, right-handed α-solenoid that sequesters the kinesin motor domain's tubulin-binding surface, structurally distorting the motor domain and sterically blocking its MT attachment. KBP uses its α-solenoid concave face and edge loops to bind the kinesin motor domain, and selected structure-guided mutations disrupt KBP inhibition of kinesin transport in cells. The KBP-interacting motor domain surface contains motifs exclusively conserved in KBP-interacting kinesins, suggesting a basis for kinesin selectivity.
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- Joseph Atherton
- Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s CollegeLondonUnited Kingdom
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht UniversityUtrechtNetherlands
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- Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Division of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer InstitutVilligen PSISwitzerland
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, Division of Biology and Chemistry, Paul Scherrer InstitutVilligen PSISwitzerland
- University of Basel, BiozentrumBaselSwitzerland
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- Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht UniversityUtrechtNetherlands
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of LondonLondonUnited Kingdom
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Makala H, Ulaganathan V, Sivasubramanian A, Rajendran N, Subramanian S. Evaluating Phenyl Propanoids Isolated from Citrus medica as Potential Inhibitors for Mitotic kinesin Eg5. LETT DRUG DES DISCOV 2020. [DOI: 10.2174/1570180817999200630125449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
Abstract
Background:
Human mitotic kinesins play an essential role in mitotic cell division. Targeting
the spindle separation phase of mitosis has gained much attention in cancer chemotherapy.
Spindle segregation is carried out mainly by the kinesin, Eg5. Many Eg5 inhibitors are in different
phases of clinical trials as cancer drugs. This enzyme has two allosteric binding sites to which the
inhibitors can bind. The first site is formed by loop L5, helix α2 and helix α3 and all the current drug
candidates bind un-competitively to this site with ATP/ADP. The second site, formed by helix α4
and helix α6, which has gained attention recently, has not been explored well. Some inhibitors that
bind to this site are competitive, while others are uncompetitive to ATP/ADP. Phenylpropanoids are
pharmacologically active secondary metabolites.
Methods:
In this study, we have evaluated fourteen phenyl propanoids extracted from Citrus medica
for inhibitory activity against human mitotic kinesin Eg5 in vitro steady-state ATPase assay. Ther
interactions and stability using molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations.
Results and Discussions:
Of the fourteen compounds tested, naringin and quercetin showed good
activity with IC50 values in the micromolar range. Molecular docking studies of these complexes
showed that both the molecules interact with the key residues of the active site predominantly thorough
hydrophobic & aromatic π–π interactions consistent with the known inhibitors. Besides, these
molecules also form hydrogen bonding interactions stabilizing the complexes. Molecular dynamics
simulations of these complexes confirm the stability of these interactions.
Conclusion:
These results can be used as a strong basis for further modification of these compounds
to design new inhibitors with higher potency using structure-based drug design.
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- Himesh Makala
- Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu-613401, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu-613401, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu-613401, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu-613401, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu-613401, India
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Knossow M, Campanacci V, Khodja LA, Gigant B. The Mechanism of Tubulin Assembly into Microtubules: Insights from Structural Studies. iScience 2020; 23:101511. [PMID: 32920486 PMCID: PMC7491153 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2020] [Revised: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Microtubules are cytoskeletal components involved in pivotal eukaryotic functions such as cell division, ciliogenesis, and intracellular trafficking. They assemble from αβ-tubulin heterodimers and disassemble in a process called dynamic instability, which is driven by GTP hydrolysis. Structures of the microtubule and of soluble tubulin have been determined by cryo-EM and by X-ray crystallography, respectively. Altogether, these data define the mechanism of tubulin assembly-disassembly at atomic or near-atomic level. We review here the structural changes that occur during assembly, tubulin switching from a curved conformation in solution to a straight one in the microtubule core. We also present more subtle changes associated with GTP binding, leading to tubulin activation for assembly. Finally, we show how cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography are complementary methods to characterize the interaction of tubulin with proteins involved either in intracellular transport or in microtubule dynamics regulation.
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- Marcel Knossow
- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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How Kinesin-1 Utilize the Energy of Nucleotide: The Conformational Changes and Mechanochemical Coupling in the Unidirectional Motion of Kinesin-1. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21186977. [PMID: 32972035 PMCID: PMC7555842 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21186977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2020] [Revised: 09/12/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Kinesin-1 is a typical motile molecular motor and the founding member of the kinesin family. The most significant feature in the unidirectional motion of kinesin-1 is its processivity. To realize the fast and processive movement on the microtubule lattice, kinesin-1 efficiently transforms the chemical energy of nucleotide binding and hydrolysis to the energy of mechanical movement. The chemical and mechanical cycle of kinesin-1 are coupled to avoid futile nucleotide hydrolysis. In this paper, the research on the mechanical pathway of energy transition and the regulating mechanism of the mechanochemical cycle of kinesin-1 is reviewed.
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Hunter B, Allingham JS. These motors were made for walking. Protein Sci 2020; 29:1707-1723. [PMID: 32472639 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Kinesins are a diverse group of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent motor proteins that transport cargos along microtubules (MTs) and change the organization of MT networks. Shared among all kinesins is a ~40 kDa motor domain that has evolved an impressive assortment of motility and MT remodeling mechanisms as a result of subtle tweaks and edits within its sequence. Several elegant studies of different kinesin isoforms have exposed the purpose of structural changes in the motor domain as it engages and leaves the MT. However, few studies have compared the sequences and MT contacts of these kinesins systematically. Along with clever strategies to trap kinesin-tubulin complexes for X-ray crystallography, new advancements in cryo-electron microscopy have produced a burst of high-resolution structures that show kinesin-MT interfaces more precisely than ever. This review considers the MT interactions of kinesin subfamilies that exhibit significant differences in speed, processivity, and MT remodeling activity. We show how their sequence variations relate to their tubulin footprint and, in turn, how this explains the molecular activities of previously characterized mutants. As more high-resolution structures become available, this type of assessment will quicken the pace toward establishing each kinesin's design-function relationship.
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- Byron Hunter
- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Peña A, Sweeney A, Cook AD, Locke J, Topf M, Moores CA. Structure of Microtubule-Trapped Human Kinesin-5 and Its Mechanism of Inhibition Revealed Using Cryoelectron Microscopy. Structure 2020; 28:450-457.e5. [PMID: 32084356 PMCID: PMC7139217 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2020.01.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Revised: 12/12/2019] [Accepted: 01/28/2020] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Kinesin-5 motors are vital mitotic spindle components, and disruption of their function perturbs cell division. We investigated the molecular mechanism of the human kinesin-5 inhibitor GSK-1, which allosterically promotes tight microtubule binding. GSK-1 inhibits monomeric human kinesin-5 ATPase and microtubule gliding activities, and promotes the motor's microtubule stabilization activity. Using cryoelectron microscopy, we determined the 3D structure of the microtubule-bound motor-GSK-1 at 3.8 Å overall resolution. The structure reveals that GSK-1 stabilizes the microtubule binding surface of the motor in an ATP-like conformation, while destabilizing regions of the motor around the empty nucleotide binding pocket. Density corresponding to GSK-1 is located between helix-α4 and helix-α6 in the motor domain at its interface with the microtubule. Using a combination of difference mapping and protein-ligand docking, we characterized the kinesin-5-GSK-1 interaction and further validated this binding site using mutagenesis. This work opens up new avenues of investigation of kinesin inhibition and spindle perturbation.
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- Alejandro Peña
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, UK.
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Kirilin EM, Švedas VK. Analysis of Glycosyl-Enzyme Intermediate Formation in the Catalytic Mechanism of Influenza Virus Neuraminidase Using Molecular Modeling. BIOCHEMISTRY. BIOKHIMIIA 2020; 85:490-498. [PMID: 32569556 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297920040094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2020] [Revised: 03/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Using classical molecular dynamics, constant-pH molecular dynamics simulation, metadynamics, and combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical approach, we identified an alternative pathway of glycosyl-enzyme intermediate formation during oligosaccharide substrate conversion by the influenza H5N1 neuraminidase. The Asp151 residue located in the enzyme mobile loop plays a key role in catalysis within a wide pH range due to the formation of a network of interactions with water molecules. Considering that propagation of influenza virus takes place in the digestive tract of birds at low pH values and in the human respiratory tract at pH values close to neutral, the existence of alternative reaction pathways functioning at different medium pH can explain the dual tropism of the virus and circulation of H5N1 viral strains capable of transmission from birds to humans.
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- E M Kirilin
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia.
- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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Ziemianowicz DS, MacCallum JL, Schriemer DC. Correlation between Labeling Yield and Surface Accessibility in Covalent Labeling Mass Spectrometry. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2020; 31:207-216. [PMID: 32031402 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.9b00083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The functional properties of a protein are strongly influenced by its topography, or the solvent-facing contour map of its surface. Together with crosslinking, covalent labeling mass spectrometry (CL-MS) has the potential to contribute topographical data through the measurement of surface accessibility. However, recent efforts to correlate measures of surface accessibility with labeling yield have been met with mixed success. Most applications of CL-MS involve differential analysis of protein interactions (i.e., footprinting experiments) where such inconsistencies have limited effect. Extending CL-MS into structural analysis requires an improved evaluation of the relationship between labeling and surface exposure. In this study, we applied recently developed diazirine reagents to obtain deep coverage of the large motor domain of Eg5 (a mitotic kinesin), and together with computational methods we correlated labeling yields with accessibility data in a number of ways. We observe that correlations can indeed be seen at a local structural level, but these correlations do not extend across the structure. The lack of correlation arises from the influence of protein dynamics and chemical composition on reagent partitioning and, thus, also on labeling yield. We conclude that our use of CL-MS data should be considered in light of "chemical accessibility" rather than "solvent accessibility" and suggest that CL-MS data would be a useful tool in the fundamental study of protein-solute interactions.
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- Daniel S Ziemianowicz
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada T2N 4N1
- Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute , University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada T2N 4N1
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada T2N 4N1
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology , University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada T2N 4N1
- Robson DNA Science Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute , University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada T2N 4N1
- Department of Chemistry , University of Calgary , Calgary , Alberta , Canada T2N 4N1
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Kim CD, Kim ED, Liu L, Buckley RS, Parameswaran S, Kim S, Wojcik EJ. Small molecule allosteric uncoupling of microtubule depolymerase activity from motility in human Kinesin-5 during mitotic spindle assembly. Sci Rep 2019; 9:19900. [PMID: 31882607 PMCID: PMC6934681 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56173-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2019] [Accepted: 12/06/2019] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Human Kinesin-5 (Eg5) has a large number of known allosteric inhibitors that disrupt its mitotic function. Small-molecule inhibitors of Eg5 are candidate anti-cancer agents and important probes for understanding the cellular function. Here we show that Eg5 is capable of more than one type of microtubule interaction, and these activities can be controlled by allosteric agents. While both monastrol and S-trityl-L-cysteine inhibit Eg5 motility, our data reveal an unexpected ability of these loop5 targeting inhibitors to differentially control a novel Eg5 microtubule depolymerizing activity. Remarkably, small molecule loop5 effectors are able to independently modulate discrete functional interactions between the motor and microtubule track. We establish that motility can be uncoupled from the microtubule depolymerase activity and argue that loop5-targeting inhibitors of Kinesin-5 should not all be considered functionally synonymous. Also, the depolymerizing activity of the motor does not contribute to the genesis of monopolar spindles during allosteric inhibition of motility, but instead reveals a new function. We propose that, in addition to its canonical role in participating in the construction of the three-dimensional mitotic spindle structure, Eg5 also plays a distinct role in regulating the dynamics of individual microtubules, and thereby impacts the density of the mitotic spindle.
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- Catherine D Kim
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, 1901 Perdido Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, 1901 Perdido Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, 1901 Perdido Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, 1901 Perdido Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, 1901 Perdido Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, 1901 Perdido Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, 1901 Perdido Street, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA.
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von Loeffelholz O, Moores CA. Cryo-EM structure of the Ustilago maydis kinesin-5 motor domain bound to microtubules. J Struct Biol 2019; 207:312-316. [PMID: 31288039 PMCID: PMC6722389 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2019.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2019] [Revised: 07/03/2019] [Accepted: 07/05/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The Ustilago maydis kinesin-5 N-terminus is disordered in cryo-EM reconstructions. AMPPNP-bound U. maydis kinesin-5 motor adopts a canonical ATP-like conformation. Fungal-specific inserts form non-canonical contacts with the microtubule. U. maydis kinesin-5 loop5 forms a distinct binding pocket for potential inhibitors.
In many eukaryotes, kinesin-5 motors are essential for mitosis, and small molecules that inhibit human kinesin-5 disrupt cell division. To investigate whether fungal kinesin-5s could be targets for novel fungicides, we studied kinesin-5 from the pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis. We used cryo-electron microscopy to determine the microtubule-bound structure of its motor domain with and without the N-terminal extension. The ATP-like conformations of the motor in the presence or absence of this N-terminus are very similar, suggesting this region is structurally disordered and does not directly influence the motor ATPase. The Ustilago maydis kinesin-5 motor domain adopts a canonical ATP-like conformation, thereby allowing the neck linker to bind along the motor domain towards the microtubule plus end. However, several insertions within this motor domain are structurally distinct. Loop2 forms a non-canonical interaction with α-tubulin, while loop8 may bridge between two adjacent protofilaments. Furthermore, loop5 – which in human kinesin-5 is involved in binding allosteric inhibitors – protrudes above the nucleotide binding site, revealing a distinct binding pocket for potential inhibitors. This work highlights fungal-specific elaborations of the kinesin-5 motor domain and provides the structural basis for future investigations of kinesins as targets for novel fungicides.
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London WC1E 7HX, UK.
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Budaitis BG, Jariwala S, Reinemann DN, Schimert KI, Scarabelli G, Grant BJ, Sept D, Lang MJ, Verhey KJ. Neck linker docking is critical for Kinesin-1 force generation in cells but at a cost to motor speed and processivity. eLife 2019; 8:44146. [PMID: 31084716 PMCID: PMC6533058 DOI: 10.7554/elife.44146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Accepted: 05/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Kinesin force generation involves ATP-induced docking of the neck linker (NL) along the motor core. However, the roles of the proposed steps of NL docking, cover-neck bundle (CNB) and asparagine latch (N-latch) formation, during force generation are unclear. Furthermore, the necessity of NL docking for transport of membrane-bound cargo in cells has not been tested. We generated kinesin-1 motors impaired in CNB and/or N-latch formation based on molecular dynamics simulations. The mutant motors displayed reduced force output and inability to stall in optical trap assays but exhibited increased speeds, run lengths, and landing rates under unloaded conditions. NL docking thus enhances force production but at a cost to speed and processivity. In cells, teams of mutant motors were hindered in their ability to drive transport of Golgi elements (high-load cargo) but not peroxisomes (low-load cargo). These results demonstrate that the NL serves as a mechanical element for kinesin-1 transport under physiological conditions.
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- Breane G Budaitis
- Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Section of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States
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- Biophysics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States.,Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, United States
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- Cellular and Molecular Biology Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Biophysics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States.,Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, United States
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Ogunwa TH, Laudadio E, Galeazzi R, Miyanishi T. Insights into the Molecular Mechanisms of Eg5 Inhibition by (+)-Morelloflavone. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2019; 12:ph12020058. [PMID: 30995725 PMCID: PMC6630617 DOI: 10.3390/ph12020058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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(+)-Morelloflavone (MF) is an antitumor biflavonoid that is found in the Garcinia species. Recently, we reported MF as a novel inhibitor of ATPase and microtubules-gliding activities of the kinesin spindle protein (Eg5) in vitro. Herein, we provide dynamical insights into the inhibitory mechanisms of MF against Eg5, which involves binding of the inhibitor to the loop5/α2/α3 allosteric pocket. Molecular dynamics simulations were carried out for 100 ns on eight complexes: Eg5-Adenosine diphosphate (Eg5-ADP), Eg5-ADP-S-trityl-l-cysteine (Eg5-ADP-STLC), Eg5-ADP-ispinesib, Eg5-ADP-MF, Eg5-Adenosine triphosphate (Eg5-ATP), Eg5-ATP-STLC, Eg5-ATP-ispinesib, and Eg5-ATP-MF complexes. Structural and energetic analyses were done using Umbrella sampling, Molecular Mechanics Poisson–Boltzmann Surface Area (MM/PBSA) method, GROMACS analysis toolkit, and virtual molecular dynamics (VMD) utilities. The results were compared with those of the known Eg5 inhibitors; ispinesib, and STLC. Our data strongly support a stable Eg5-MF complex, with significantly low binding energy and reduced flexibility of Eg5 in some regions, including loop5 and switch I. Furthermore, the loop5 Trp127 was trapped in a downward position to keep the allosteric pocket of Eg5 in the so-called “closed conformation”, comparable to observations for STLC. Altered structural conformations were also visible within various regions of Eg5, including switch I, switch II, α2/α3 helices, and the tubulin-binding region, indicating that MF might induce modifications in the Eg5 structure to compromise its ATP/ADP binding and conversion process as well as its interaction with microtubules. The described mechanisms are crucial for understanding Eg5 inhibition by MF.
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- Tomisin Happy Ogunwa
- Department of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy.
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- Department of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.
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Awuni E, Mu Y. Effect of A22 on the Conformation of Bacterial Actin MreB. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20061304. [PMID: 30875875 PMCID: PMC6471442 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20061304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Revised: 02/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The mechanism of the antibiotic molecule A22 is yet to be clearly understood. In a previous study, we carried out molecular dynamics simulations of a monomer of the bacterial actin-like MreB in complex with different nucleotides and A22, and suggested that A22 impedes the release of Pi from the active site of MreB after the hydrolysis of ATP, resulting in filament instability. On the basis of the suggestion that Pi release occurs on a similar timescale to polymerization and that polymerization can occur in the absence of nucleotides, we sought in this study to investigate a hypothesis that A22 impedes the conformational change in MreB that is required for polymerization through molecular dynamics simulations of the MreB protofilament in the apo, ATP+, and ATP-A22+ states. We suggest that A22 inhibits MreB in part by antagonizing the ATP-induced structural changes required for polymerization. Our data give further insight into the polymerization/depolymerization dynamics of MreB and the mechanism of A22.
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- Elvis Awuni
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, CANS, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast 00233, Ghana.
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- School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637551, Singapore.
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von Loeffelholz O, Peña A, Drummond DR, Cross R, Moores CA. Cryo-EM Structure (4.5-Å) of Yeast Kinesin-5-Microtubule Complex Reveals a Distinct Binding Footprint and Mechanism of Drug Resistance. J Mol Biol 2019; 431:864-872. [PMID: 30659798 PMCID: PMC6378684 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2018] [Revised: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Kinesin-5s are microtubule-dependent motors that drive spindle pole separation during mitosis. We used cryo-electron microscopy to determine the 4.5-Å resolution structure of the motor domain of the fission yeast kinesin-5 Cut7 bound to fission yeast microtubules and explored the topology of the motor–microtubule interface and the susceptibility of the complex to drug binding. Despite their non-canonical architecture and mechanochemistry, Schizosaccharomyces pombe microtubules were stabilized by epothilone at the taxane binding pocket. The overall Cut7 footprint on the S. pombe microtubule surface is altered compared to mammalian tubulin microtubules because of their different polymer architectures. However, the core motor–microtubule interaction is tightly conserved, reflected in similar Cut7 ATPase activities on each microtubule type. AMPPNP-bound Cut7 adopts a kinesin-conserved ATP-like conformation including cover neck bundle formation. However, the Cut7 ATPase is not blocked by a mammalian-specific kinesin-5 inhibitor, consistent with the non-conserved sequence and structure of its loop5 insertion. Epothilone binds at the taxane binding site to stabilize S. pombe microtubules. S. pombe Cut7 has a distinct binding footprint on S. pombe microtubules. The core interface driving microtubule activation of motor ATPase is conserved. Loop5 of Cut7 adopts a distinctive conformation rendering Cut7 ATPase insensitive to STLC inhibition.
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- Division of Biomedical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, WC1E 7HX, UK.
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Mann BJ, Wadsworth P. Kinesin-5 Regulation and Function in Mitosis. Trends Cell Biol 2019; 29:66-79. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2018.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2018] [Revised: 07/30/2018] [Accepted: 08/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Nagarajan S, Sakkiah S. Exploring a potential allosteric inhibition mechanism in the motor domain of human Eg-5. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2018; 37:2394-2403. [PMID: 30047307 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2018.1486229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Kinesin-5 (Eg-5), microtubule motor protein, is one of the emerging drug targets in cancer research. Several inhibitors have been reported to bind the hEg-5 "motor domain" in two different locations that are potentially allosteric. Interestingly, the crystal structure of Eg-5 bound to benzimidazole unveils two chemically different allosteric pockets (PDB ID: 3ZCW). The allosteric modulators inhibit Eg-5 activity by causing conformational changes that affect nucleotide turnover rate. In the present work, three allosteric inhibitors were simulated along with the substrate nucleotides (ADP and ATP) to capture conformation changes induced by the allosteric inhibitors. To analyze the allosteric inhibition mechanism, we used dynamics cross-correlation, principal component analysis (PCA), and enthalpic calculations. The loop L5 interaction is determined by the type of substrate bind at the nucleotide binding site. The SW-II flexibility increased upon dual allosteric inhibition by SB-743921 and 6a. The ionic interaction between R221-E116 is observed only in the presence of two allosteric inhibitors. Also, we noticed that the α2/α3 helical orientation is responsible for the SW-1 loop position and substrate binding. Our simulation data suggest the critical chemical features required to block the motor domain by the allosteric inhibitors. The results summarized in this work will help the researchers to design better therapeutic agents targeting hEg-5. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Shanthi Nagarajan
- a Department of Physiology & Pharmacology , Oregon Health Science University , Portland , OR , USA
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- b Department of BioMedical Sciences , Samuel Oschin Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center , Los Angeles , CA , USA
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Fatima T, Rani S, Fischer S, Efferth T, Kiani FA. The hydrolysis of 6-phosphogluconolactone in the second step of pentose phosphate pathway occurs via a two-water mechanism. Biophys Chem 2018; 240:98-106. [PMID: 30014892 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2018.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2018] [Revised: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hydrolysis reaction marks the basis of life yet the mechanism of this crucial biochemical reaction is not completely understood. We recently reported the mechanisms of hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphate and phosphate monoester. These two reactions hydrolyze P-O-P and P-O-C linkages, respectively. Here, we present the mechanism of hydrolysis of δ-6-phosphogluconolactone, which is an important precursor in the second step of the pentose phosphate pathway. Its hydrolysis requires the cleavage of C-O-C linkage and its mechanism is hitherto unknown. We report three mechanisms of hydrolysis of δ-6-phosphogluconolactone based on density functional computations. In the energetically most favorable mechanism, two water molecules participate in the hydrolysis reaction and the mechanism is sequential, i.e., activation of the attacking water molecule (OH bond breaking) precedes that of the cleavage of the CO bond of the C-O-C linkage. The rate-limiting energy barrier of this mechanism is comparable to the reported experimental free energy barrier. This mechanism has similarities with the mechanism of triphosphate hydrolysis and that of hydrolytic cleavage of DNA in EcoRV enzyme. This two-water sequential hydrolysis mechanism could be the unified mechanism required for the hydrolysis of other hydrolysable species in living cells.
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- Tabeer Fatima
- Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan; Department of Biotechnology, University of Sialkot, 51310 Sialkot, Pakistan
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- Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, The University of Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Staudinger Weg 5, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Albany Street, 02118 Boston, MA, United States.
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Ternary complex of Kif2A-bound tandem tubulin heterodimers represents a kinesin-13-mediated microtubule depolymerization reaction intermediate. Nat Commun 2018; 9:2628. [PMID: 29980677 PMCID: PMC6035175 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05025-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2018] [Accepted: 06/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Kinesin-13 proteins are major microtubule (MT) regulatory factors that catalyze removal of tubulin subunits from MT ends. The class-specific “neck” and loop 2 regions of these motors are required for MT depolymerization, but their contributing roles are still unresolved because their interactions with MT ends have not been observed directly. Here we report the crystal structure of a catalytically active kinesin-13 monomer (Kif2A) in complex with two bent αβ-tubulin heterodimers in a head-to-tail array, providing a view of these interactions. The neck of Kif2A binds to one tubulin dimer and the motor core to the other, guiding insertion of the KVD motif of loop 2 in between them. AMPPNP-bound Kif2A can form stable complexes with tubulin in solution and trigger MT depolymerization. We also demonstrate the importance of the neck in modulating ATP turnover and catalytic depolymerization of MTs. These results provide mechanistic insights into the catalytic cycles of kinesin-13. The kinesin-13 family of microtubule (MT) depolymerases are major regulators of MT dynamics. Here the authors provide insights into the MT depolymerization mechanism by solving the crystal structure of a kinesin-13 monomer (Kif2A) in complex with two bent αβ-tubulin heterodimers.
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Benoit MPMH, Asenjo AB, Sosa H. Cryo-EM reveals the structural basis of microtubule depolymerization by kinesin-13s. Nat Commun 2018; 9:1662. [PMID: 29695795 PMCID: PMC5916938 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04044-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Kinesin-13s constitute a distinct group within the kinesin superfamily of motor proteins that promote microtubule depolymerization and lack motile activity. The molecular mechanism by which kinesin-13s depolymerize microtubules and are adapted to perform a seemingly very different activity from other kinesins is still unclear. To address this issue, here we report the near atomic resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of Drosophila melanogaster kinesin-13 KLP10A protein constructs bound to curved or straight tubulin in different nucleotide states. These structures show how nucleotide induced conformational changes near the catalytic site are coupled with movement of the kinesin-13-specific loop-2 to induce tubulin curvature leading to microtubule depolymerization. The data highlight a modular structure that allows similar kinesin core motor-domains to be used for different functions, such as motility or microtubule depolymerization. Kinesin-13s are microtubule depolymerases that lack motile activity. Here the authors present the cryo-EM structures of kinesin-13 microtubule complexes in different nucleotide bound states, which reveal how ATP hydrolysis is linked to conformational changes and propose a model for kinesin induced depolymerisation.
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- Matthieu P M H Benoit
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA.
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Kato Y, Miyakawa T, Tanokura M. Overview of the mechanism of cytoskeletal motors based on structure. Biophys Rev 2018; 10:571-581. [PMID: 29235081 PMCID: PMC5899727 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-017-0368-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2017] [Accepted: 11/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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In the last two decades, a wealth of structural and functional knowledge has been obtained for the three major cytoskeletal motor proteins, myosin, kinesin and dynein, which we review here. The cytoskeletal motor proteins myosin and kinesin are structurally similar in the core architecture of their motor domains and have similar force-producing mechanisms that are coupled with the chemical cycles of ATP binding, hydrolysis, Pi release and subsequent ADP release. The force is generated through conformational changes in the motor domain during Pi release and ATP binding in myosin and kinesin, respectively, and then converted into the rotation of the lever arm or neck linker (referred to as a power stroke) through the common structural pathways. On the other hand, the dynein cytoskeletal motor is an AAA+ protein and has a different structure and power stroke mechanism from those of myosins and kinesins. The linker protruding from the AAA+ ring of dynein swings according to the ATPase states, which, presumably, generates force to carry cargos within a cell. The communication mechanism between the track-binding and ATPase domains of dynein is unique because the two helices that presumably slide with respect to each other work as coordinators for these domains. Details of the mechanism underlying the power stroke and interdomain communication were revealed through recent progress in the structural studies of myosin, kinesin and dynein.
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- Yusuke Kato
- Institute for Enzyme Research, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
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- Laboratory of Basic Science on Healthy Longevity, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory of Basic Science on Healthy Longevity, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Kiani FA, Fischer S. Comparing the catalytic strategy of ATP hydrolysis in biomolecular motors. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 18:20219-33. [PMID: 27296627 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01364c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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ATP-driven biomolecular motors utilize the chemical energy obtained from the ATP hydrolysis to perform vital tasks in living cells. Understanding the mechanism of enzyme-catalyzed ATP hydrolysis reaction has substantially progressed lately thanks to combined quantum/classical molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations. Here, we present a comparative summary of the most recent QM/MM results for myosin, kinesin and F1-ATPase motors. These completely different motors achieve the acceleration of ATP hydrolysis through a very similar catalytic mechanism. ATP hydrolysis has high activation energy because it involves the breaking of two strong bonds, namely the Pγ-Oβγ bond of ATP and the H-O bond of lytic water. The key to the four-fold decrease in the activation barrier by the three enzymes is that the breaking of the Pγ-Oβγ bond precedes the deprotonation of the lytic water molecule, generating a metaphosphate hydrate complex. The resulting singly charged trigonal planar PγO3(-) metaphosphate is a better electrophilic target for attack by an OaH(-) hydroxyl group. The formation of this OaH(-) is promoted by a strong polarization of the lytic water: in all three proteins, this water is forming a hydrogen-bond with a backbone carbonyl group and interacts with the carboxylate group of glutamate (either directly or via an intercalated water molecule). This favors the shedding of one proton by the attacking water. The abstracted proton is transferred to the γ-phosphate via various proton wires, resulting in a H2PγO4(-)/ADP(3-) product state. This catalytic strategy is so effective that most other nucleotide hydrolyzing enzymes adopt a similar approach, as suggested by their very similar triphosphate binding sites.
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- Farooq Ahmad Kiani
- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany. and Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, 44000, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Lin S, Alam TI, Kottadiel VI, VanGessel CJ, Tang WC, Chemla YR, Rao VB. Altering the speed of a DNA packaging motor from bacteriophage T4. Nucleic Acids Res 2017; 45:11437-11448. [PMID: 28981683 PMCID: PMC5737356 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2017] [Accepted: 08/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The speed at which a molecular motor operates is critically important for the survival of a virus or an organism but very little is known about the underlying mechanisms. Tailed bacteriophage T4 employs one of the fastest and most powerful packaging motors, a pentamer of gp17 that translocates DNA at a rate of up to ∼2000-bp/s. We hypothesize, guided by structural and genetic analyses, that a unique hydrophobic environment in the catalytic space of gp17-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) determines the rate at which the 'lytic water' molecule is activated and OH- nucleophile is generated, in turn determining the speed of the motor. We tested this hypothesis by identifying two hydrophobic amino acids, M195 and F259, in the catalytic space of gp17-ATPase that are in a position to modulate motor speed. Combinatorial mutagenesis demonstrated that hydrophobic substitutions were tolerated but polar or charged substitutions resulted in null or cold-sensitive/small-plaque phenotypes. Quantitative biochemical and single-molecule analyses showed that the mutant motors exhibited 1.8- to 2.5-fold lower rate of ATP hydrolysis, 2.5- to 4.5-fold lower DNA packaging velocity, and required an activator protein, gp16 for rapid firing of ATPases. These studies uncover a speed control mechanism that might allow selection of motors with optimal performance for organisms' survival.
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- Siying Lin
- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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- Department of Physics, Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 20064, USA
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Hwang W, Lang MJ, Karplus M. Kinesin motility is driven by subdomain dynamics. eLife 2017; 6:28948. [PMID: 29111975 PMCID: PMC5718755 DOI: 10.7554/elife.28948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The microtubule (MT)-associated motor protein kinesin utilizes its conserved ATPase head to achieve diverse motility characteristics. Despite considerable knowledge about how its ATPase activity and MT binding are coupled to the motility cycle, the atomic mechanism of the core events remain to be found. To obtain insights into the mechanism, we performed 38.5 microseconds of all-atom molecular dynamics simulations of kinesin-MT complexes in different nucleotide states. Local subdomain dynamics were found to be essential for nucleotide processing. Catalytic water molecules are dynamically organized by the switch domains of the nucleotide binding pocket while ATP is torsionally strained. Hydrolysis products are 'pulled' by switch-I, and a new ATP is 'captured' by a concerted motion of the α0/L5/switch-I trio. The dynamic and wet kinesin-MT interface is tuned for rapid interactions while maintaining specificity. The proposed mechanism provides the flexibility necessary for walking in the crowded cellular environment. Motor proteins called kinesins perform a number of different roles inside cells, including transporting cargo and organizing filaments called microtubules to generate the force needed for a cell to divide. Kinesins move along the microtubules, with different kinesins moving in different ways: some ‘walk’, some jump, and some destroy the microtubule as they travel along it. All kinesins power their movements using the same molecule as fuel – adenosine triphosphate, known as ATP for short. Energy stored in ATP is released by a chemical reaction known as hydrolysis, which uses water to break off specific parts of the ATP molecule. The site to which ATP binds in a kinesin has a similar structure to the ATP binding site of many other proteins that use ATP. However, little was known about the way in which kinesin uses ATP as a fuel, including how ATP binds to kinesin and is hydrolyzed, and how the products of hydrolysis are released. These events are used to power the motor protein. Hwang et al. have used powerful computer simulation methods to examine in detail how ATP interacts with kinesin whilst moving across a microtubule. The simulations suggest that regions (or 'domains') of kinesin near the ATP binding site move around to help in processing ATP. These kinesin domains trap a nearby ATP molecule from the environment and help to deliver water molecules to ATP for hydrolysis. Hwang et al. also found that the domain motion subsequently helps in the release of the hydrolysis products by kinesin. The domains around the ATP pocket vary among the kinesins and these differences may enable kinesins to fine-tune how they use ATP to move. Further investigations will help us understand why different kinesin families behave differently. They will also contribute to exploring how kinesin inhibitors might be used as anti-cancer drugs.
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- Wonmuk Hwang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States.,Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States.,School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States.,Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States.,Laboratoire de Chimie Biophysique, ISIS, Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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Hassan HA, Rani S, Fatima T, Kiani FA, Fischer S. Effect of protonation on the mechanism of phosphate monoester hydrolysis and comparison with the hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphate in biomolecular motors. Biophys Chem 2017; 230:27-35. [PMID: 28941815 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2017.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Revised: 07/31/2017] [Accepted: 08/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Hydrolysis of phosphate groups is a crucial reaction in living cells. It involves the breaking of two strong bonds, i.e. the OaH bond of the attacking water molecule, and the POl bond of the substrate (Oa and Ol stand for attacking and leaving oxygen atoms). Mechanism of the hydrolysis reaction can proceed either by a concurrent or a sequential mechanism. In the concurrent mechanism, the breaking of OaH and POl bonds occurs simultaneously, whereas in the sequential mechanism, the OaH and POl bonds break at different stages of the reaction. To understand how protonation affects the mechanism of hydrolysis of phosphate monoester, we have studied the mechanism of hydrolysis of protonated and deprotonated phosphate monoester at M06-2X/6-311+G**//M06-2X/6-31+G*+ZPE level of theory (where ZPE stands for zero point energy). Our calculations show that in both protonated and deprotonated cases, the breaking of the water OaH bond occurs before the breaking of the POl bond. Because the two events are not separated by a stable intermediate, the mechanism can be categorized as semi-concurrent. The overall energy barrier is 41kcalmol-1 in the unprotonated case. Most (5/6th) of this is due to the initial breaking of the water OaH bond. This component is lowered from 34 to 25kcalmol-1 by adding one proton to the phosphate. The rest of the overall energy barrier comes from the subsequent breaking of the POl bond and is not sensitive to protonation. This is consistent with previous findings about the effect of triphosphate protonation on the hydrolysis, where the equivalent protonation (on the γ-phosphate) was seen to lower the barrier of breaking the water OaH bond and to have little effect on the POl bond breaking. Hydrolysis pathways of phosphate monoester with initial breaking of the POl bond could not be found here. This is because the leaving group in phosphate monoester cannot be protonated, unlike in triphosphate hydrolysis, where protonation of the β- and γ-phosphates had been shown to promote a mechanism where the POl bond breaks before the OaH bond does. We also point out that the charge shift due to POl bond breaking during sequential ATP hydrolysis in bio-molecular motors onsets the week unbinding of hydrolysis product that finally leads to the product release during power stroke.
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- Hammad Ali Hassan
- Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan; Department of Biotechnology, University of Gujrat Sialkot Sub Campus, 51310 Sialkot, Pakistan
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- Research Center for Modeling and Simulation (RCMS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan; Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 700 Albany street, 02118 Boston, MA, United States.
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Atherton J, Yu IM, Cook A, Muretta JM, Joseph A, Major J, Sourigues Y, Clause J, Topf M, Rosenfeld SS, Houdusse A, Moores CA. The divergent mitotic kinesin MKLP2 exhibits atypical structure and mechanochemistry. eLife 2017; 6:27793. [PMID: 28826477 PMCID: PMC5602324 DOI: 10.7554/elife.27793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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MKLP2, a kinesin-6, has critical roles during the metaphase-anaphase transition and cytokinesis. Its motor domain contains conserved nucleotide binding motifs, but is divergent in sequence (~35% identity) and size (~40% larger) compared to other kinesins. Using cryo-electron microscopy and biophysical assays, we have undertaken a mechanochemical dissection of the microtubule-bound MKLP2 motor domain during its ATPase cycle, and show that many facets of its mechanism are distinct from other kinesins. While the MKLP2 neck-linker is directed towards the microtubule plus-end in an ATP-like state, it does not fully dock along the motor domain. Furthermore, the footprint of the MKLP2 motor domain on the MT surface is altered compared to motile kinesins, and enhanced by kinesin-6-specific sequences. The conformation of the highly extended loop6 insertion characteristic of kinesin-6s is nucleotide-independent and does not contact the MT surface. Our results emphasize the role of family-specific insertions in modulating kinesin motor function. Cells constantly replicate to provide new cells for growing tissues, and to replace ageing or defective cells around the body. Each new cell needs a copy of the genetic material, and a cellular structure called the mitotic spindle makes sure that this material is shared correctly when a cell divides in two. The spindle is built from protein filaments called microtubules, and the protein filaments grow and shrink as the mitotic spindle carries out its role. Many of these changes in the spindle are driven by proteins called molecular motors, which break down energy-rich molecules of ATP to power them as they walk along the filaments. Kinesins, for example, are molecular motors that can move along microtubules and there are over 40 different kinesins encoded in the human genome. More than half of the human kinesins are involved in cell division including one called MKLP2. Little is known about MKLP2 but some earlier findings had suggested that it would behave very differently compared to other kinesins. Understanding how a kinesin motor works requires studying it in complex with its microtubule tracks. Atherton, Yu et al. have now used a technique called cryo-electron microscopy – which is uniquely suited to looking at large and complicated samples in three dimensions – to observe how the motor in MKLP2 changes shape as it works. This revealed that, while MKLP2 works in a fundamentally similar way to other kinesins, many aspects of its molecular mechanism are highly unusual. These include how it binds to the microtubule, how it interacts with ATP and how it generates force. These findings show that there is much greater diversity in the molecular mechanisms of the kinesins involved in cell division than was previously thought. Several anticancer drugs target kinesins to stop cells dividing and so this diversity may make it easier to target only certain kinesins with drugs, which in turn would have fewer side effects. First, though, it will be important to find out how the unusual mechanism of MKLP2 coordinates and influences other components of the spindle to reveal a fuller picture of what happens when cells replicate.
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- Joseph Atherton
- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, United Kingdom
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Paris, France
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United Sates
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Paris, France
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Paris, France
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States
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- Structural Motility, Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Paris, France
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, London, United Kingdom
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Bell KM, Cha HK, Sindelar CV, Cochran JC. The yeast kinesin-5 Cin8 interacts with the microtubule in a noncanonical manner. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:14680-14694. [PMID: 28701465 PMCID: PMC5582858 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.797662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Revised: 06/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Kinesin motors play central roles in establishing and maintaining the mitotic spindle during cell division. Unlike most other kinesins, Cin8, a kinesin-5 motor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, can move bidirectionally along microtubules, switching directionality according to biochemical conditions, a behavior that remains largely unexplained. To this end, we used biochemical rate and equilibrium constant measurements as well as cryo-electron microscopy methodologies to investigate the microtubule interactions of the Cin8 motor domain. These experiments unexpectedly revealed that, whereas Cin8 ATPase kinetics fell within measured ranges for kinesins (especially kinesin-5 proteins), approximately four motors can bind each αβ-tubulin dimer within the microtubule lattice. This result contrasted with those observations on other known kinesins, which can bind only a single "canonical" site per tubulin dimer. Competition assays with human kinesin-5 (Eg5) only partially abrogated this behavior, indicating that Cin8 binds microtubules not only at the canonical site, but also one or more separate ("noncanonical") sites. Moreover, we found that deleting the large, class-specific insert in the microtubule-binding loop 8 reverts Cin8 to one motor per αβ-tubulin in the microtubule. The novel microtubule-binding mode of Cin8 identified here provides a potential explanation for Cin8 clustering along microtubules and potentially may contribute to the mechanism for direction reversal.
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- Kayla M Bell
- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
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- the Department of Cell Biology, Yale School of Medicine, and
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- the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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- From the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405,
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Insight into microtubule disassembly by kinesin-13s from the structure of Kif2C bound to tubulin. Nat Commun 2017; 8:70. [PMID: 28694425 PMCID: PMC5503940 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00091-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Accepted: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Kinesin-13s are critical microtubule regulators which induce microtubule disassembly in an ATP dependent manner. To clarify their mechanism, we report here the crystal structure of a functional construct of the kinesin-13 Kif2C/MCAK in an ATP-like state and bound to the αβ-tubulin heterodimer, a complex mimicking the species that dissociates from microtubule ends during catalytic disassembly. Our results picture how Kif2C stabilizes a curved tubulin conformation. The Kif2C α4-L12-α5 region undergoes a remarkable 25° rotation upon tubulin binding to target the αβ-tubulin hinge. This movement leads the β5a–β5b motif to interact with the distal end of β-tubulin, whereas the neck and the KVD motif, two specific elements of kinesin-13s, target the α-tubulin distal end. Taken together with the study of Kif2C mutants, our data suggest that stabilization of a curved tubulin is an important contribution to the Kif2C mechanism. Kinesin-13s are microtubule depolymerizing enzymes. Here the authors present the crystal structure of a DARPin fused construct comprising the short neck region and motor domain of kinesin-13 in complex with an αβ-tubulin heterodimer, which shows that kinesin-13 functions by stabilizing a curved tubulin conformation.
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Jennings S, Chenevert M, Liu L, Mottamal M, Wojcik EJ, Huckaba TM. Characterization of kinesin switch I mutations that cause hereditary spastic paraplegia. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0180353. [PMID: 28678816 PMCID: PMC5498027 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Kif5A is a neuronally-enriched isoform of the Kinesin-1 family of cellular transport motors. 23 separate mutations in the motor domain of Kif5A have been identified in patients with the complicated form of hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). We performed in vitro assays on dimeric recombinant Kif5A with HSP-causing mutations in the Switch I domain, which participates in the coordination and hydrolysis of ATP by kinesin. We observed a variety of significantly reduced catalytic and mechanical activities as a result of each mutation, with the shared phenotype from each that motility was significantly reduced. Substitution of Mn2+ for Mg2+ in our reaction buffers provides a dose-dependent rescue in both the catalytic and ensemble mechanical properties of the S203C mutant. This work provides mechanistic insight into the cause of HSP in patients with these mutations and points to future experiments to further dissect the root cause of this disease.
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- Scott Jennings
- Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- RCMI Molecular Modeling Core, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU School of Medicine & Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Kimura SR, Hu HP, Ruvinsky AM, Sherman W, Favia AD. Deciphering Cryptic Binding Sites on Proteins by Mixed-Solvent Molecular Dynamics. J Chem Inf Model 2017; 57:1388-1401. [PMID: 28537745 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.6b00623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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In recent years, molecular dynamics simulations of proteins in explicit mixed solvents have been applied to various problems in protein biophysics and drug discovery, including protein folding, protein surface characterization, fragment screening, allostery, and druggability assessment. In this study, we perform a systematic study on how mixtures of organic solvent probes in water can reveal cryptic ligand binding pockets that are not evident in crystal structures of apo proteins. We examine a diverse set of eight PDB proteins that show pocket opening induced by ligand binding and investigate whether solvent MD simulations on the apo structures can induce the binding site observed in the holo structures. The cosolvent simulations were found to induce conformational changes on the protein surface, which were characterized and compared with the holo structures. Analyses of the biological systems, choice of probes and concentrations, druggability of the resulting induced pockets, and application to drug discovery are discussed here.
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- S Roy Kimura
- Schrödinger KK , 17th Fl, Marunouchi Trust Tower North, 1-8-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Lilly China Research and Development Center (LCRDC), Eli Lilly and Company , Building 8, 338 Jia Li Lue Road, Shanghai 201203, PR China
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- Schrödinger LLC , 222 Third Street, Suite 2230, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Schrödinger LLC , 222 Third Street, Suite 2230, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Lilly China Research and Development Center (LCRDC), Eli Lilly and Company , Building 8, 338 Jia Li Lue Road, Shanghai 201203, PR China
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Gao C, Lowndes NF, Eriksson LA. Analysis of Biphenyl-Type Inhibitors Targeting the Eg5 α4/α6 Allosteric Pocket. ACS OMEGA 2017; 2:1836-1849. [PMID: 30023646 PMCID: PMC6044558 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.6b00467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Eg5 is a mitotic kinesin protein that plays an important role in the formation and maintenance of the bipolar spindle during the mitotic phase. Due to its potentially reduced side effects in cancer therapy, Eg5 is considered to be an attractive target for developing anticancer inhibitors. Herein, we report a computational modeling study involving biphenyl-type inhibitors known to interact with the α4/α6 allosteric pocket of Eg5. Compared to the well-known α2/L5/α3 allosteric inhibitors, biphenyl-type inhibitors show a unique activity profile. In the Eg5-PVZB1194 (a biphenyl-type inhibitor) crystal structure, loop L11, which is located in the entrance of the α4/α6 allosteric-binding pocket, is missing due to crystal-packing effects. To better understand the role of this flexible loop upon biphenyl-type inhibitor-binding, MD simulations were performed to observe the L11 conformations from different states. It was demonstrated that L11 was more stabilized and showed less fluctuation when PVZB1194 was bound to Eg5. Residue Asn287 from L11 forms hydrogen bonding to the sulfone group of PVZB1194, whereby L11 moves inward to the α4/α6 allosteric pocket and moves away from the pocket in absence of the inhibitor. Pharmacophore, three-dimensional (3D)-QSAR, and ADME studies of biphenyl-type inhibitors of Eg5 were also performed. A best pharmacophore model, DDRRH.6, was generated, having correlation coefficients in the 3D-QSAR study of R2 = 0.81 and Q2 = 0.64. Furthermore, docking studies were carried out to observe the interaction between the remaining biphenyl-type inhibitors with Eg5. In addition, on the basis of fragment docking, a structure-based pharmacophore was generated, which shares good overlap of the DHRR features of the pharmacophore model DDHRR.6. The structure-based pharmacophore also contains extra hydrogen-bond acceptors and hydrophobic groups, features which provide possibilities in developing new or improved series of compounds.
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- Chunxia Gao
- Department
of Chemistry of Molecular Biology, University
of Gothenburg, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Genome
Stability Laboratory, Center for Chromosome Biology, School of Natural
Science, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- Department
of Chemistry of Molecular Biology, University
of Gothenburg, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Anchor Effect of Interactions Between Kinesin's Nucleotide-Binding Pocket and Microtubule. Cell Mol Bioeng 2017; 10:162-173. [PMID: 31719858 DOI: 10.1007/s12195-017-0477-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2016] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Microtubule not only provides the track for kinesin but also modulates kinesin's mechanochemical cycle. Microtubule binding greatly increases the rates of two chemical steps occurring inside the nucleotide-binding pocket (NBP) of kinesin, i.e., ATP hydrolysis and ADP release. Kinesin neck linker docking (the key force-generation step) is initiated by the motor head rotation induced by ATP binding which needs an anchor provided by microtubule. These functions of microtubule can only be accomplished through interactions with kinesin. Based on the newly obtained crystal structures of kinesin-microtubule complexes, we investigate the interactions between kinesin's NBP and microtubule using molecular dynamics simulations. We find that the N-3 motif of NBP has direct interactions with a group of negatively charged residues on α-tubulin through Ser235 and Lys237. These specific long-range interactions induce binding of NBP to microtubule at the right position and assist the formation of the indirect interaction between NBP and microtubule. These interactions between N-3 and microtubule have an important anchor effect for kinesin's motor domain during its rotation with Ser235 as the rotation center, and also play a crucial role in stabilizing the ATP-hydrolysis environment.
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The structural switch of nucleotide-free kinesin. Sci Rep 2017; 7:42558. [PMID: 28195215 PMCID: PMC5307337 DOI: 10.1038/srep42558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2016] [Accepted: 01/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Kinesin-1 is an ATP-dependent motor protein that moves towards microtubules (+)-ends. Whereas structures of isolated ADP-kinesin and of complexes with tubulin of apo-kinesin and of ATP-like-kinesin are available, structural data on apo-kinesin-1 in the absence of tubulin are still missing, leaving the role of nucleotide release in the structural cycle unsettled. Here, we identified mutations in the kinesin nucleotide-binding P-loop motif that interfere with ADP binding. These mutations destabilize the P-loop (T87A mutant) or magnesium binding (T92V), highlighting a dual mechanism for nucleotide release. The structures of these mutants in their apo form are either isomorphous to ADP-kinesin-1 or to tubulin-bound apo-kinesin-1. Remarkably, both structures are also obtained from the nucleotide-depleted wild-type protein. Our results lead to a model in which, when detached from microtubules, apo-kinesin possibly occupies the two conformations we characterized, whereas, upon microtubule binding, ADP-kinesin converts to the tubulin-bound apo-kinesin conformation and releases ADP. This conformation is primed to bind ATP and, therefore, to run through the natural nucleotide cycle of kinesin-1.
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Cross RA. Review: Mechanochemistry of the kinesin-1 ATPase. Biopolymers 2017; 105:476-82. [PMID: 27120111 PMCID: PMC4924600 DOI: 10.1002/bip.22862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2016] [Revised: 04/12/2016] [Accepted: 04/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
Abstract
Kinesins are P‐loop NTPases that can do mechanical work. Like small G‐proteins, to which they are related, kinesins execute a program of active site conformational changes that cleaves the terminal phosphate from an NTP substrate. But unlike small G‐proteins, kinesins can amplify and harness these conformational changes in order to exert force. In this short review I summarize current ideas about how the kinesin active site works and outline how the active site chemistry is coupled to the larger‐scale structural cycle of the kinesin motor domain. Focusing largely on kinesin‐1, the best‐studied kinesin, I discuss how the active site switch machinery of kinesin cycles between three distinct states, how docking of the neck linker stabilizes two of these states, and how tension‐sensitive and position‐sensitive neck linker docking may modulate both the hydrolysis step of ATP turnover and the trapping of product ADP in the active site. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Biopolymers 105: 476–482, 2016.
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Affiliation(s)
- R A Cross
- Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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