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ArticleNature communications2026

Structural and molecular basis for allosteric regulation and catalytic coupling of human phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase.

Nandini Sharma, Weijie Zhou, Jarrod B French

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Nandini SharmaThe Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, MN, 55912, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4053-2186
Weijie ZhouDepartment of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794, USA.
Jarrod B FrenchThe Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, MN, 55912, USA. jfrench@umn.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6762-1309

Funding

Mechanisms that govern assembly and function of higher order protein structures of purine metabolic enzymesR35GM124898 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI FRENCH, JARROD B · 2017 to 2021
$2.2M
Identifying phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase inhibitors as a new class of purine antimetabolitesR01CA299056 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Jarrod B French, Louis Daniel Scampavia · 2025 to 2026
$1.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM124898U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01CA299056U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM124898
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purine nucleotides are ubiquitous molecules essential for all life. The de novo biosynthesis of purines is a metabolic dependency that is frequently reprogrammed in cancers and is a well-established target for chemotherapies, immune modulation and antivirals. Here, we report cryo-electron microscopy structures of the multi-domain human phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthase, a central purine biosynthetic enzyme and foundational feature of the purinosome metabolon. These data capture, the proposed iminophosphate intermediate and provide the structural elucidation of an ammonia channel connecting the active sites of the glutaminase and synthase domains. Analysis of this series of structures and the accompanying biochemical data also reveal the molecular features and transient conformational changes that underlie allosteric regulation and catalytic coupling of the domains. This data resolves several longstanding mechanistic questions about this enzyme class and provides a strong foundation for therapeutic development.

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Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases with Glutamine as Amide-N-DonorAllosteric RegulationCatalytic DomainCryoelectron MicroscopyHumansModels, MolecularProtein ConformationCarbon-Nitrogen Ligases with Glutamine as Amide-N-Donorphosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthetase

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PMID41688441
PMCPMC13013826

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