The ghrelin O-acyltransferase structure reveals a catalytic channel for transmembrane hormone acylation
| Autor: | Melissa Navarro, Maria B. Campaña, Michelle A. Sieburg, Tasha R. Davis, James L. Hougland, Mohammad Ashkar, Rosemary Loftus, Najae Escoffery, Flaviyan Jerome Irudayanathan, Shikha Nangia, Kayleigh R. McGovern-Gooch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
030102 biochemistry & molecular biology Chemistry MBOAT Cell Biology Biochemistry Transmembrane protein Ghrelin O-acyltransferase Cell biology 03 medical and health sciences Protein acylation 030104 developmental biology Protein structure Structural biology Membrane protein Molecular Biology Integral membrane protein |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294:14166-14174 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9258 |
| Popis: | Integral membrane proteins represent a large and diverse portion of the proteome and are often recalcitrant to purification, impeding studies essential for understanding protein structure and function. By combining co-evolutionary constraints and computational modeling with biochemical validation through site-directed mutagenesis and enzyme activity assays, we demonstrate here a synergistic approach to structurally model purification-resistant topologically complex integral membrane proteins. We report the first structural model of a eukaryotic membrane-bound O-acyltransferase (MBOAT), ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT), which modifies the metabolism-regulating hormone ghrelin. Our structure, generated in the absence of any experimental structural data, revealed an unanticipated strategy for transmembrane protein acylation with catalysis occurring in an internal channel connecting the endoplasmic reticulum lumen and cytoplasm. This finding validated the power of our approach to generate predictive structural models for other experimentally challenging integral membrane proteins. Our results illuminate novel aspects of membrane protein function and represent key steps for advancing structure-guided inhibitor design to target therapeutically important but experimentally intractable membrane proteins. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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