Deciphering the Role of Residues Involved in Disorder-To-Order Transition Regions in Archaeal tRNA Methyltransferase 5

tRNA methyltransferase 5 (Trm5) enzyme is an S-adenosyl methionine (AdoMet)-dependent methyltransferase which methylates the G37 nucleotide at the N1 atom of the tRNA. The free form of Trm5 enzyme has three intrinsically disordered regions, which are highly flexible and lack stable three-dimensional structures. These regions gain ordered structures upon the complex formation with tRNA, also called disorder-to-order transition (DOT) regions. In this study, we performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of archaeal Trm5 in free and complex forms and observed that the DOT residues are highly flexible in free proteins and become stable in complex structures. The energetic contributions show that DOT residues are important for stabilising the complex. The DOT1 and DOT2 are mainly observed to be important for stabilising the complex, while DOT3 is present near the active site to coordinate the interactions between methyl-donating ligands and G37 nucleotides. In addition, mutational studies on the Trm5 complex showed that the wild type is more stable than the G37A tRNA mutant complex. The loss of productive interactions upon G37A mutation drives the AdoMet ligand away from the 37th nucleotide, and Arg145 in DOT3 plays a crucial role in stabilising the ligand, as well as the G37 nucleotide, in the wild-type complex. Further, the overall energetic contribution calculated using MMPBSA corroborates that the wild-type complex has a better affinity between Trm5 and tRNA. Overall, our study reveals that targeting DOT regions for binding could improve the inhibition of Trm5.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Genes - 12(2021), 3 vom: 11. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Srivastava, Ambuj [VerfasserIn]
Yesudhas, Dhanusha [VerfasserIn]
Ahmad, Shandar [VerfasserIn]
Gromiha, M Michael [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9014-25-9
Archaeal Proteins
Disorder-to-order transition
Disordered regions
EC 2.1.1.-
Journal Article
Molecular dynamics simulations
Protein-RNA complexes
RNA, Transfer
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
TRNA Methyltransferases
TRNA methyltransferase
Trm5/aTrm5

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Date Completed 03.08.2021

Date Revised 03.08.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/genes12030399

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM323551920