How guanylate-binding proteins achieve assembly-stimulated processive cleavage of GTP to GMP

Agnidipta Ghosh, Gerrit J. K. Praefcke, Louis Renault (), Alfred Wittinghofer () and Christian Herrmann
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Agnidipta Ghosh: Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie
Gerrit J. K. Praefcke: Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie
Louis Renault: Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, CNRS UPR 9063
Alfred Wittinghofer: Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie
Christian Herrmann: Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Physiologie

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7080, 101-104

Abstract: Abstract Interferons are immunomodulatory cytokines that mediate anti-pathogenic and anti-proliferative effects in cells1. Interferon-γ-inducible human guanylate binding protein 1 (hGBP1) belongs to the family of dynamin-related large GTP-binding proteins2, which share biochemical properties not found in other families of GTP-binding proteins such as nucleotide-dependent oligomerization and fast cooperative GTPase activity3. hGBP1 has an additional property by which it hydrolyses GTP to GMP in two consecutive cleavage reactions4,5. Here we show that the isolated amino-terminal G domain of hGBP1 retains the main enzymatic properties of the full-length protein and can cleave GDP directly. Crystal structures of the N-terminal G domain trapped at successive steps along the reaction pathway and biochemical data reveal the molecular basis for nucleotide-dependent homodimerization and cleavage of GTP. Similar to effector binding in other GTP-binding proteins, homodimerization is regulated by structural changes in the switch regions. Homodimerization generates a conformation in which an arginine finger and a serine are oriented for efficient catalysis. Positioning of the substrate for the second hydrolysis step is achieved by a change in nucleotide conformation at the ribose that keeps the guanine base interactions intact and positions the β-phosphates in the γ-phosphate-binding site.

Date: 2006
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