Cyclic AMP-induced Conformational Changes in Mycobacterial Protein Acetyltransferases

Nambi, Subhalaxmi and Badireddy, Suguna and Visweswariah, Sandhya S and Anand, Ganesh S (2012) Cyclic AMP-induced Conformational Changes in Mycobacterial Protein Acetyltransferases. In: JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, 287 (22). pp. 18115-18129.

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Abstract

The activities of a number of proteins are regulated by the binding of cAMP and cGMP to cyclic nucleotide binding (CNB) domains that are found associated with one or more effector domains with diverse functions. Although the conserved architecture of CNB domains has been extensively studied by x-ray crystallography, the key to unraveling the mechanisms of cAMP action has been protein dynamics analyses. Recently, we have identified a novel cAMP-binding protein from mycobacteria, where cAMP regulates the activity of an associated protein acetyltransferase domain. In the current study, we have monitored the conformational changes that occur upon cAMP binding to the CNB domain in these proteins, using a combination of bioluminescence resonance energy transfer and amide hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Coupled with mutational analyses, our studies reveal the critical role of the linker region (positioned between the CNB domain and the acetyltransferase domain) in allosteric coupling of cAMP binding to activation of acetyltransferase catalysis. Importantly, major differences in conformational change upon cAMP binding were accompanied by stabilization of the CNB and linker domain alone. This is in contrast to other cAMP-binding proteins, where cyclic nucleotide binding has been shown to involve intricate and parallel allosteric relays. Finally, this powerful convergence of results from bioluminescence resonance energy transfer and hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry reaffirms the power of solution biophysical tools in unraveling mechanistic bases of regulation of proteins in the absence of high resolution structural information.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Publisher:	AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
Additional Information:	Copyright for this article belongs to the AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Reproduction, Development & Genetics
Date Deposited:	08 Aug 2012 08:43
Last Modified:	08 Aug 2012 08:43
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/44928

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