Conformational changes in adenylosuccinate synthetase from Helicobacter pylori upon ligand binding

Crosbi ID709382
Bib IRB ID1153552
Year2021
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Typeprilog sa skupa (neobjavljen)
Subtypeneobjavljeni prilog sa skupa
AuthorsBubić, Ante ; Narczyk, M. ; Maksymiuk, W. ; Štefanić, Zoran ; Bzowska, A. ; Leščić Ašler, Ivana
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en original Conformational changes in adenylosuccinate synthetase from Helicobacter pylori upon ligand binding

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Human pathogen Helicobacter pylori relies on purine salvage pathway for synthesis of these essential molecules. Adenylosuccinate synthetase (AdSS, EC 6.3.4.4) is one of the enzymes on this pathway and is therefore critical for bacterium’s survival. It catalyzes the synthesis of adenylosuccinate from IMP and aspartate, paired with hydrolysis of one phosphate group from GTP. Our goal is to characterize this enzyme in detail, in order to gain information on its mechanism of action and possibilities for its inhibition. As one of the steps towards this goal, we solved crystal structures of H. pylori AdSS incubated with IMP, hadacidin (inhibitor of AdSS, analogue of aspartate), GTP and Mg2+, as well as of H. pylori AdSS complexed only with IMP. Structures were analyzed and compared between themselves and with unligated structure of Escherichia coli AdSS. This comparison enabled us to identify regions responsible for substrate binding, and conformations these flexible regions adopt with and without bound ligands.

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en original Helicobacter pylori ; adenylosuccinate synthetase ; X-ray structure ; conformational changes

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Bubić, Ante ; Narczyk, M. ; Maksymiuk, W. ; Štefanić, Zoran ; Bzowska, A. ; Leščić Ašler, Ivana
Conformational changes in adenylosuccinate synthetase from Helicobacter pylori upon ligand binding // EMBL Conference Bringing molecular structure to life: 50 years of the PDB
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