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NATURE
卷 599, 期 7883, 页码 152-+出版社
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03982-6
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- National Institutes of Health [R01-GM117189]
- Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship [101614/Z/13/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [101614/Z/13/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
This study reveals that the functional specificity of the small GTPase switch protein Gsp1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is linked to the differential sensitivity of biological processes to different kinetics of the Gsp1 switch cycle. By making targeted point mutations to individual protein interaction interfaces of Gsp1 and conducting quantitative genetic and physical interaction mapping, it is shown that interface mutations allosterically tune the GTPase cycle kinetics, rather than grouping by targeted interfaces. These findings suggest a model in which protein partner binding or post-translational modifications may act as allosteric regulators of GTPase switching and may have implications for disease mutations targeting central molecular switches.
Molecular switch proteins whose cycling between states is controlled by opposing regulators(1,2) are central to biological signal transduction. As switch proteins function within highly connected interaction networks(3), the fundamental question arises of how functional specificity is achieved when different processes share common regulators. Here we show that functional specificity of the small GTPase switch protein Gsp1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (the homologue of the human protein RAN)(4) is linked to differential sensitivity of biological processes to different kinetics of the Gsp1 (RAN) switch cycle. We make 55 targeted point mutations to individual protein interaction interfaces of Gsp1 (RAN) and show through quantitative genetic(5) and physical interaction mapping that Gsp1 (RAN) interface perturbations have widespread cellular consequences. Contrary to expectation, the cellular effects of the interface mutations group by their biophysical effects on kinetic parameters of the GTPase switch cycle and not by the targeted interfaces. Instead, we show that interface mutations allosterically tune the GTPase cycle kinetics. These results suggest a model in which protein partner binding, or post-translational modifications at distal sites, could act as allosteric regulators of GTPase switching. Similar mechanisms may underlie regulation by other GTPases, and other biological switches. Furthermore, our integrative platform to determine the quantitative consequences of molecular perturbations may help to explain the effects of disease mutations that target central molecular switches.
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