Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20947019›Full record

ArticleStructure (London, England : 1993)2010

Cryo-EM analysis reveals new insights into the mechanism of action of pyruvate carboxylase.

Gorka Lasso, Linda P C Yu, David Gil, Song Xiang, Liang Tong, Mikel Valle

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Article in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Structural and functional studies of pyruvate carboxylase regulation by cyclic di-AMP in lactic acid bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gorka LassoStructural Biology Unit, Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences bioGUNE, 48160 Derio, Spain.
Linda P C Yu
David Gil
Song Xiang
Liang Tong
Mikel Valle
CIC bioGUNE · ESColumbia University · US

Funding

CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR FOUNDATIONS OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCET32GM008798 · NIGMS · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI PRYWES, RON M · 2001 to 2018
$6.3M
Structural biology of enzymes in fatty acid metabolismR01DK067238 · NIDDK · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI TONG, LIANG · 2004 to 2012
$2.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS DK067238NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK067238NIGMS NIH HHS GM008798NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008798
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pyruvate carboxylase (PC) is a conserved multifunctional enzyme linked to important metabolic diseases. PC homotetramer is arranged in two layers with two opposing monomers per layer. Cryo-EM explores the conformational variability of PC in the presence of different substrates. The results demonstrate that the biotin-carboxyl carrier protein (BCCP) domain localizes near the biotin carboxylase (BC) domain of its own monomer and travels to the carboxyltransferase (CT) domain of the opposite monomer. All density maps show noticeable conformational differences between layers, mainly for the BCCP and BC domains. This asymmetry may be indicative of a coordination mechanism where monomers from different layers catalyze the BC and CT reactions consecutively. A conformational change of the PC tetramerization (PT) domain suggests a new functional role in communication. A long-range communication pathway between subunits in different layers, via interacting PT-PT and BC-BC domains, may be responsible for the cooperativity of PC from Staphylococcus aureus.

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Protein MultimerizationProtein Structure, TertiaryBacterial ProteinsBinding SitesCarbon-Nitrogen LigasesCarboxyl and Carbamoyl TransferasesCatalytic DomainCryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayModels, MolecularProtein BindingProtein FoldingPyruvate CarboxylaseRecombinant ProteinsStaphylococcus aureusSubstrate SpecificityBacterial Proteinsbiotin carboxylaseCarbon-Nitrogen LigasesCarboxyl and Carbamoyl TransferasesPyruvate CarboxylaseRecombinant Proteins

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PMID20947019
PMCPMC2956116
OpenAlexW1999798187

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