Structural and functional roles of dynamically correlated residues in thymidylate kinase

Chaudhary, Santosh Kumar and Jeyakanthan, Jeyaraman and Sekar, Kanagaraj (2018) Structural and functional roles of dynamically correlated residues in thymidylate kinase. In: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, 74 (4). pp. 341-354.

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Abstract

Thymidylate kinase is an important enzyme in DNA synthesis. It catalyzes the conversion of thymidine monophosphate to thymidine diphosphate, with ATP as the preferred phosphoryl donor, in the presence of Mg2+. In this study, the dynamics of the active site and the communication paths between the substrates, ATP and TMP, are reported for thymidylate kinase from Thermus thermophilus. Conformational changes upon ligand binding and the path for communication between the substrates and the protein are important in understanding the catalytic mechanism of the enzyme. High-resolution X-ray crystal structures of thymidylate kinase in apo and ligand-bound states were solved. This is the first report of structures of binary and ternary complexes of thymidylate kinase with its natural substrates ATP and ATP-TMP, respectively. Distinct conformations of the active-site residues, the P-loop and the LID region observed in the apo and ligand-bound structures revealed that their concerted motion is required for the binding and proper positioning of the substrate TMP. Structural analyses provide an insight into the mode of substrate binding at the active site. The residues involved in communication between the substrates were identified through network analysis using molecular-dynamics simulations. The residues identified showed high sequence conservation across species. Biochemical analyses show that mutations of these residues either resulted in a loss of activity or affected the thermal stability of the protein. Further, molecular-dynamics analyses of mutants suggest that the proper positioning of TMP is important for catalysis. These data also provide an insight into the phosphoryl-transfer mechanism.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Publisher:	INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 2 ABBEY SQ, CHESTER, CH1 2HU, ENGLAND
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belong to INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, 2 ABBEY SQ, CHESTER, CH1 2HU, ENGLAND
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Supercomputer Education & Research Centre Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Physics
Date Deposited:	04 May 2018 18:47
Last Modified:	04 May 2018 18:47
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/59746

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