Reformulation of an extant ATPase active site to mimic ancestral GTPase activity reveals a nucleotide base requirement for function

Hydrolysis of nucleoside triphosphates releases similar amounts of energy. However, ATP hydrolysis is typically used for energy-intensive reactions, whereas GTP hydrolysis typically functions as a switch. SpoIVA is a bacterial cytoskeletal protein that hydrolyzes ATP to polymerize irreversibly during Bacillus subtilis sporulation. SpoIVA evolved from a TRAFAC class of P-loop GTPases, but the evolutionary pressure that drove this change in nucleotide specificity is unclear. We therefore reengineered the nucleotide-binding pocket of SpoIVA to mimic its ancestral GTPase activity. SpoIVAGTPase functioned properly as a GTPase but failed to polymerize because it did not form an NDP-bound intermediate that we report is required for polymerization. Further, incubation of SpoIVAGTPase with limiting ATP did not promote efficient polymerization. This approach revealed that the nucleotide base, in addition to the energy released from hydrolysis, can be critical in specific biological functions. We also present data suggesting that increased levels of ATP relative to GTP at the end of sporulation was the evolutionary pressure that drove the change in nucleotide preference in SpoIVA.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

eLife - 10(2021) vom: 11. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Updegrove, Taylor B [VerfasserIn]
Harke, Jailynn [VerfasserIn]
Anantharaman, Vivek [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Jin [VerfasserIn]
Gopalan, Nikhil [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Di [VerfasserIn]
Piszczek, Grzegorz [VerfasserIn]
Stevenson, David M [VerfasserIn]
Amador-Noguez, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jue D [VerfasserIn]
Aravind, L [VerfasserIn]
Ramamurthi, Kumaran S [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

86-01-1
8L70Q75FXE
Actin
Adenosine Triphosphatases
Adenosine Triphosphate
B. subtilis
Bacterial Proteins
Cell biology
EC 3.6.1.-
GTP Phosphohydrolases
Guanosine Triphosphate
Infectious disease
Journal Article
Microbiology
MreB
PpGpp
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Septins
SpoVM
Spore-specific proteins, Bacillus
Tubulin

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Date Completed 07.12.2021

Date Revised 23.07.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.7554/eLife.65845

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM322611393