Allosteric rescue of catalytically impaired ATP phosphoribosyltransferase variants links protein dynamics to active-site electrostatic preorganisation
Fisher, Gemma ; Corbella, Marina ; Alphey, Magnus S ; Nicholson, John ; Read, Benjamin J ; Kamerlin, Shina C L LU
and da Silva, Rafael G
(2022)
In Nature Communications
13(1).
- Abstract
ATP phosphoribosyltransferase catalyses the first step of histidine biosynthesis and is controlled via a complex allosteric mechanism where the regulatory protein HisZ enhances catalysis by the catalytic protein HisGS while mediating allosteric inhibition by histidine. Activation by HisZ was proposed to position HisGS Arg56 to stabilise departure of the pyrophosphate leaving group. Here we report active-site mutants of HisGS with impaired reaction chemistry which can be allosterically restored by HisZ despite the HisZ:HisGS interface lying ~20 Å away from the active site. MD simulations indicate HisZ binding constrains the dynamics of HisGS to favour a preorganised active site where both Arg56 and Arg32 are poised to stabilise... (More)
ATP phosphoribosyltransferase catalyses the first step of histidine biosynthesis and is controlled via a complex allosteric mechanism where the regulatory protein HisZ enhances catalysis by the catalytic protein HisGS while mediating allosteric inhibition by histidine. Activation by HisZ was proposed to position HisGS Arg56 to stabilise departure of the pyrophosphate leaving group. Here we report active-site mutants of HisGS with impaired reaction chemistry which can be allosterically restored by HisZ despite the HisZ:HisGS interface lying ~20 Å away from the active site. MD simulations indicate HisZ binding constrains the dynamics of HisGS to favour a preorganised active site where both Arg56 and Arg32 are poised to stabilise leaving-group departure in WT-HisGS. In the Arg56Ala-HisGS mutant, HisZ modulates Arg32 dynamics so that it can partially compensate for the absence of Arg56. These results illustrate how remote protein-protein interactions translate into catalytic resilience by restoring damaged electrostatic preorganisation at the active site.
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- author
- Fisher, Gemma
; Corbella, Marina
; Alphey, Magnus S
; Nicholson, John
; Read, Benjamin J
; Kamerlin, Shina C L
LU
and da Silva, Rafael G
- publishing date
- 2022-12-09
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- keywords
- ATP Phosphoribosyltransferase/chemistry, Catalytic Domain, Histidine/metabolism, Allosteric Regulation
- in
- Nature Communications
- volume
- 13
- issue
- 1
- article number
- 7607
- publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- external identifiers
-
- pmid:36494361
- scopus:85143628429
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41467-022-34960-9
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- © 2022. The Author(s).
- id
- a9427179-83b0-417b-bb7b-1dc8d67ae929
- date added to LUP
- 2025-01-11 18:44:07
- date last changed
- 2025-07-13 18:39:56
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