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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 6, Pages 3233-3243Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkz070
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31870782, 31170117, 31700657]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong province [2018A030313313]
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Adenosine deaminase is involved in adenosine degradation and salvage pathway, and plays important physiological roles in purine metabolism. Recently, a novel type of adenosine deaminase-like protein has been identified, which displays deamination activity toward N-6-methyl-adenosine monophosphate but not adenosine or AMP, and was consequently named N-6-methyl-AMP deaminase (MAPDA). The underlying structural basis of MAPDA recognition and catalysis is poorly understood. Here, we present the crystal structures of MAPDA from Arabidopsis thaliana in the free and in the ligand-bound forms. The protein contains a conserved (/)(8) Tim-barrel domain and a typical zinc-binding site, but it also exhibits idiosyncratic local differences for two flexible helices important for substrate binding. The extensive interactions between the N-6-methyl-AMP substrate or the inosine monophosphate product and the enzyme were identified, and subsequently evaluated by the deamination activity assays. Importantly, each structure reported here represents a different stage of the catalytic pathway and their structural differences suggested that the enzyme can exist in two distinct conformational states. The open state switches to the closed one upon the binding of ligands, brought about by the two critical helices. Our structural studies provide the first look of this important metabolic enzyme and shed lights on its catalytic pathway, which holds promise for the structure-based drug design for MAPDA-related diseases.
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