Download MendeleyStructural basis for phosphatidylinositol-phosphate biosynthesis.
Clarke, O.B., Tomasek, D., Jorge, C.D., Dufrisne, M.B., Kim, M., Banerjee, S., Rajashankar, K.R., Shapiro, L., Hendrickson, W.A., Santos, H., Mancia, F.(2015) Nat Commun 6: 8505-8505
- PubMed: 26510127
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9505
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:
5D91, 5D92 - PubMed Abstract:
Phosphatidylinositol is critical for intracellular signalling and anchoring of carbohydrates and proteins to outer cellular membranes. The defining step in phosphatidylinositol biosynthesis is catalysed by CDP-alcohol phosphotransferases, transmembrane enzymes that use CDP-diacylglycerol as donor substrate for this reaction, and either inositol in eukaryotes or inositol phosphate in prokaryotes as the acceptor alcohol. Here we report the structures of a related enzyme, the phosphatidylinositol-phosphate synthase from Renibacterium salmoninarum, with and without bound CDP-diacylglycerol to 3.6 and 2.5 ? resolution, respectively. These structures reveal the location of the acceptor site, and the molecular determinants of substrate specificity and catalysis. Functional characterization of the 40%-identical ortholog from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a potential target for the development of novel anti-tuberculosis drugs, supports the proposed mechanism of substrate binding and catalysis. This work therefore provides a structural and functional framework to understand the mechanism of phosphatidylinositol-phosphate biosynthesis.
Organizational Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
