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Filamentation modulates allosteric regulation of PRPS

  1. Huanhuan Hu
  2. Guangming Lu
  3. Chia-Chun Chang
  4. Yilan Li
  5. Jiale Zhong
  6. Chen-Jun Guo
  7. Xian Zhou
  8. Boqi Yin
  9. Tianyi Zhang
  10. Ji-Long Liu  Is a corresponding author
  1. ShanghaiTech University, China
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79552
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  1. Huanhuan Hu
  2. Guangming Lu
  3. Chia-Chun Chang
  4. Yilan Li
  5. Jiale Zhong
  6. Chen-Jun Guo
  7. Xian Zhou
  8. Boqi Yin
  9. Tianyi Zhang
  10. Ji-Long Liu
(2022)
Filamentation modulates allosteric regulation of PRPS
eLife 11:e79552.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79552
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Abstract

Phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate (PRPP) is a key intermediate in the biosynthesis of purine and pyrimidine nucleotides, histidine, tryptophan, and cofactors NAD and NADP. Abnormal regulation of PRPP synthase (PRPS) is associated with human disorders, including Arts syndrome, retinal dystrophy and gouty arthritis. Recent studies have demonstrated that PRPS can form filamentous cytoophidia in eukaryotes. Here we show that PRPS forms cytoophidia in prokaryotes both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, we solve two distinct filament structures of E. coli PRPS at near-atomic resolution under Cryo-EM. The formation of the two types of filaments is controlled by the binding of different ligands. One filament type is resistant to allosteric inhibition. The structural comparison reveals conformational changes of a regulatory flexible loop, which may regulate the binding of the allosteric inhibitor and the substrate ATP. A noncanonical allosteric AMP/ADP binding site is identified to stabilize the conformation of the regulatory flexible loop. Our findings not only explore a new mechanism of PRPS regulation with structural basis, but also propose an additional layer of cell metabolism through PRPS filamentation.

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Atomic models generated in this study have been deposited at thePDB under the accession codes 7XMU, 7XMV, 7XN3. Cryo-EMmaps deposited to EMDB as: EMD-33305, EMD-33306, EMD-33309.

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  1. Huanhuan Hu

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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  2. Guangming Lu

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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  3. Chia-Chun Chang

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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  4. Yilan Li

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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  5. Jiale Zhong

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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  6. Chen-Jun Guo

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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  7. Xian Zhou

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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  8. Boqi Yin

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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  9. Tianyi Zhang

    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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    School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China
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Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2021YFA0804701-4)

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (31771490)

  • Ji-Long Liu

Shanghai Science and Technology Commission (20JC1410500)

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Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12021/3; MC_U137788471)

  • Ji-Long Liu

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  1. Huanhuan Hu
  2. Guangming Lu
  3. Chia-Chun Chang
  4. Yilan Li
  5. Jiale Zhong
  6. Chen-Jun Guo
  7. Xian Zhou
  8. Boqi Yin
  9. Tianyi Zhang
  10. Ji-Long Liu
(2022)
Filamentation modulates allosteric regulation of PRPS
eLife 11:e79552.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79552

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