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ArticleBiomolecules2020

Tetrameric Structures of Inorganic CBS-Pyrophosphatases from Various Bacterial Species Revealed by Small-Angle X-ray Scattering in Solution.

Liubov A Dadinova, Ekaterina Yu Soshinskaia, Cy M Jeffries, Dmitri I Svergun, Eleonora V Shtykova

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Article in Biomolecules, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Liubov A DadinovaShubnikov Institute of Crystallography of Federal Scientific Research Centre "Crystallography and Photonics" of Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy prospect, 59, 119333 Moscow, Russia.
Ekaterina Yu SoshinskaiaShubnikov Institute of Crystallography of Federal Scientific Research Centre "Crystallography and Photonics" of Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy prospect, 59, 119333 Moscow, Russia.
Cy M JeffriesEMBL, Hamburg Unit, c/o DESY, Notkestr. 85, Geb. 25a, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8718-7343
Dmitri I SvergunEMBL, Hamburg Unit, c/o DESY, Notkestr. 85, Geb. 25a, 22607 Hamburg, Germany.
Eleonora V ShtykovaShubnikov Institute of Crystallography of Federal Scientific Research Centre "Crystallography and Photonics" of Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskiy prospect, 59, 119333 Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-4347-7266
Russian Academy of Sciences · RUEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory · DE

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Российский Фонд Фундаментальных Исследований (РФФИ) 18-34-00918
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quaternary structure of CBS-pyrophosphatases (CBS-PPases), which belong to the PPases of family II, plays an important role in their function ensuring cooperative behavior of the enzymes. Despite an intensive research, high resolution structures of the full-length CBS-PPases are not yet available making it difficult to determine the signal transmission path from the regulatory to the active center. In the present work, small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) combined with size-exclusion chromatography was applied to determine the solution structures of the full-length wild-type CBS-PPases from three different bacterial species. Previously, in the absence of an experimentally determined full-length CBS-PPase structure, a homodimeric model of the enzyme based on known crystal structures of the CBS domain and family II PPase without this domain has been proposed. Our SAXS analyses demonstrate, for the first time, the existence of stable tetramers in solution for all studied CBS-PPases from different sources. Our findings show that further studies are required to establish the functional properties of these enzymes. This is important not only to enhance our understanding of the relation between CBS-PPases structure and function under normal conditions but also because some human pathogens harbor this class of enzymes.

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Protein MultimerizationScattering, Small AngleX-Ray DiffractionBacteriaInorganic PyrophosphataseModels, MolecularProtein Structure, QuaternarySolutionsInorganic PyrophosphataseSolutionsCBS-domainCBS-pyrophosphatasescystathionine-β-synthaseinorganic pyrophosphatasemulti-angle laser lightsize-exclusion chromatographystructural modeling

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PMID32272694
PMCPMC7226116
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