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ArticleNature communications2025

Structural insights into the roles of PARP4 and NAD

Jane E Lodwick, Rong Shen, Satchal Erramilli, Yuan Xie, Karolina Roganowicz, Simone Ritchey, Anthony A Kossiakoff, Minglei Zhao

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. TIR-like NADases act in bacterial immunity and the RNA vault.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Jane E LodwickDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Rong ShenDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Satchal ErramilliDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8694-7681
Yuan XieDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5105-7136
Karolina RoganowiczDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-2241-7512
Simone RitcheyDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Anthony A KossiakoffDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3174-9359
Minglei ZhaoDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. mlzhao@uchicago.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5832-6060

Funding

Chaperone-Assisted Structure Determination of Membrane ProteinsR01GM117372 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ANTHONY A KOSSIAKOFF · 2016 to 2026
$4.0M
Structural and Functional Studies of Molecular Machines Involved in Chemical Modifications of MacromoleculesR35GM143052 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ZHAO, MINGLEI · 2021 to 2025
$2.1M
Beagle-3: A Shared GPU Cluster for Biomolecular SciencesS10OD028655 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ROUX, BENOIT · 2020 to 2020
$2.0M
Predoctoral Training Program in Chemistry and BiologyT32GM144290 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Yamuna Krishnan, Joseph Anthony Piccirilli · 2022 to 2026
$1.6M
Acquisition of a Q-Exactive HF Mass SpectrometerS10OD027016 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI COLOGNA, STEPHANIE M · 2019 to 2019
$600k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117372NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM143052NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM144290NIH HHS S10 OD027016NIH HHS S10 OD028655U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM143052U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) T32GM144290
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vault is a massive ribonucleoprotein complex found across Eukaryota. The major vault protein (MVP) oligomerizes into an ovular cage, which contains several minor vault components (MVCs) and is thought to transport transiently bound "cargo" molecules. Vertebrate vaults house a poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (known as PARP4 in humans), which is the only MVC with known enzymatic activity. Despite being discovered decades ago, the molecular basis for PARP4's interaction with MVP remains unclear. In this study, we determined the structure of the human vault cage in complex with PARP4 and its enzymatic substrate NAD

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NADPoly(ADP-ribose) PolymerasesVault Ribonucleoprotein ParticlesBinding SitesCrystallography, X-RayHumansMajor Vault ProteinModels, MolecularProtein BindingMajor Vault ProteinNADPoly(ADP-ribose) PolymerasesVault Ribonucleoprotein Particles

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PMID40691181
PMCPMC12280208

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