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Bashiri, G., Bulloch, E.M.M., Bramley, W.R., Davidson, M., Stuteley, S.M., Young, P.G., Harris, P.W.R., Naqvi, M.S.H., Middleditch, M.J., Schmitz, M., Chang, W.C., Baker, E.N., Squire, C.J.(2024) Nat Commun 15: 1310-1310
- PubMed: 38346985
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45632-1
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:
8G8P - PubMed Abstract:
Poly-γ-glutamate tails are a distinctive feature of archaeal, bacterial, and eukaryotic cofactors, including the folates and F 420 . Despite decades of research, key mechanistic questions remain as to how enzymes successively add glutamates to poly-γ-glutamate chains while maintaining cofactor specificity. Here, we show how poly-γ-glutamylation of folate and F 420 by folylpolyglutamate synthases and γ-glutamyl ligases, non-homologous enzymes, occurs via processive addition of L-glutamate onto growing γ-glutamyl chain termini. We further reveal structural snapshots of the archaeal γ-glutamyl ligase (CofE) in action, crucially including a bulged-chain product that shows how the cofactor is retained while successive glutamates are added to the chain terminus. This bulging substrate model of processive poly-γ-glutamylation by terminal extension is arguably ubiquitous in such biopolymerisation reactions, including addition to folates, and demonstrates convergent evolution in diverse species from archaea to humans.
Organizational Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand. [email protected].
