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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2020

Solution structure and assembly of β-amylase 2 from Arabidopsis thaliana.

Nithesh P Chandrasekharan, Claire M Ravenburg, Ian R Roy, Jonathan D Monroe, Christopher E Berndsen

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nithesh P ChandrasekharanDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, James Madison University, 901 Carrier Drive, MSC 4501, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.
Claire M RavenburgDepartment of Biology, James Madison University, 951 Carrier Drive, MSC 7801, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.
Ian R RoyDepartment of Health Sciences, James Madison University, 235 Martin Luther King Jr Way, MSC 4301, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.
Jonathan D MonroeDepartment of Biology, James Madison University, 951 Carrier Drive, MSC 7801, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.
Christopher E BerndsenDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, James Madison University, 901 Carrier Drive, MSC 4501, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, USA.
James Madison University · US

Funding

National Science Foundation CHE-1461175National Science Foundation MCB-1616467
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Starch is a key energy-storage molecule in plants that requires controlled synthesis and breakdown for effective plant growth. β-Amylases (BAMs) hydrolyze starch into maltose to help to meet the metabolic needs of the plant. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana there are nine BAMs, which have apparently distinct functional and domain structures, although the functions of only a few of the BAMs are known and there are no 3D structures of BAMs from this organism. Recently, AtBAM2 was proposed to form a tetramer based on chromatography and activity assays of mutants; however, there was no direct observation of this tetramer. Here, small-angle X-ray scattering data were collected from AtBAM2 and its N-terminal truncations to describe the structure and assembly of the tetramer. Comparison of the scattering of the AtBAM2 tetramer with data collected from sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) BAM5, which is also reported to form a tetramer, showed there were differences in the overall assembly. Analysis of the N-terminal truncations of AtBAM2 identified a loop sequence found only in BAM2 orthologs that appears to be critical for AtBAM2 tetramer assembly as well as for activity.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceArabidopsisArabidopsis Proteinsbeta-AmylaseModels, MolecularProtein MultimerizationProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesProtein Structure, QuaternaryScattering, RadiationSequence AlignmentStarchX-RaysArabidopsis ProteinsBAM2 protein, Arabidopsisbeta-AmylaseProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesStarchamylasesArabidopsis thalianasmall-angle X-ray scatteringtetramerβ-amylase 2

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PMID32254060
PMCPMC7137110
OpenAlexW3013731871

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