Journal
GLYCOBIOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 7, Pages 838-850Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/cwab002
Keywords
congenital disorders of glycosylation; membrane protein; molecular dynamics simulations; NMR; oligosaccharyltransferase (OST)
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1807722, DBI-1726397]
- NSF [DMR-1644779]
- State of Florida
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Asparagine-linked glycosylation, also known as N-linked glycosylation, is a crucial and highly conserved protein modification process in eukaryotes and some prokaryotes. Mutations in the Ost4 subunit can lead to destabilization of the OST complex and reduced activity. The point mutation in Ost4 did not impact the protein's structure, but affected its position and solvent exposure in the membrane mimetic environment, disrupting interactions with other subunits.
Asparagine-linked glycosylation, also known as N-linked glycosylation, is an essential and highly conserved co- and post-translational protein modification in eukaryotes and some prokaryotes. In the central step of this reaction, a carbohydrate moiety is transferred from a lipid-linked donor to the side-chain of a consensus asparagine in a nascent protein as it is synthesized at the ribosome. Complete loss of oligosaccharyltransferase (OST) function is lethal in eukaryotes. This reaction is carried out by a membrane-associated multisubunit enzyme, OST, localized in the endoplasmic reticulum. The smallest subunit, Ost4, contains a single membrane-spanning helix that is critical for maintaining the stability and activity of OST. Mutation of any residue from Met18 to Ile24 of Ost4 destabilizes the enzyme complex, affecting its activity. Here, we report solution nuclear magnetic resonance structures and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of Ost4 and Ost4V23D in micelles. Our studies revealed that while the point mutation did not impact the structure of the protein, it affected its position and solvent exposure in the membrane mimetic environment. Furthermore, our MD simulations of the membrane-bound OST complex containing either WT or V23D mutant demonstrated disruption of most hydrophobic helix-helix interactions between Ost4V23D and transmembrane TM12 and TM13 of Stt3. This disengagement of Ost4V23D from the OST complex led to solvent exposure of the D23 residue in the hydrophobic pocket created by these interactions. Our study not only solves the structures of yeast Ost4 subunit and its mutant but also provides a basis for the destabilization of the OST complex and reduced OST activity.
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