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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 7, Issue 39, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abj5836
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- NSF [MCB1937937, PHY1811770]
- U.S. Department of Education GAANN award [P200A150068]
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By comparing the catalytic mechanisms of BY-kinases and NTPases, the study reveals the enzymatic activity differences between them, providing a theoretical basis for bacteria to reuse ancient domains to achieve tyrosine phosphorylation.
BY-kinases constitute a protein tyrosine kinase family that encodes unique catalytic domains that deviate from those of eukaryotic kinases resembling P-loop nucleotide triphosphatases (NTPases) instead. We have used computational and supporting biochemical approaches using the catalytic domain of the Escherichia coli BY-kinase, Wzc, to illustrate mechanistic divergences between BY-kinases and NTPases despite their deployment of similar catalytic motifs. In NTPases, the arginine finger drives the reactive conformation of ATP while also displacing its solvation shell, thereby making favorable enthalpic and entropic contributions toward beta gamma-bond cleavage. In BY-kinases, the reactive state of ATP is enabled by ATP.Mg2+-induced global conformational transitions coupled to the conformation of the Walker-A lysine. While the BY-kinase arginine finger does promote the desolvation of ATP, it does so indirectly by generating an ordered active site in combination with other structural elements. Bacteria, using these mechanistic variations, have thus repurposed an ancient fold to phosphorylate on tyrosine.
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