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Structure and location of the regulatory ? subunits in the (????)4 phosphorylase kinase complex.

ABSTRACT: Phosphorylase kinase (PhK) is a hexadecameric (????)(4) complex that regulates glycogenolysis in skeletal muscle. Activity of the catalytic ? subunit is regulated by allosteric activators targeting the regulatory ?, ?, and ? subunits. Three-dimensional EM reconstructions of PhK show it to be two large (????)(2) lobes joined with D(2) symmetry through interconnecting bridges. The subunit composition of these bridges was unknown, although indirect evidence suggested the ? subunits may be involved in their formation. We have used biochemical, biophysical, and computational approaches to not only address the quaternary structure of the ? subunits within the PhK complex, i.e. whether they compose the bridges, but also their secondary and tertiary structures. The secondary structure of ? was determined to be predominantly helical by comparing the CD spectrum of an ??? subcomplex with that of the native (????)(4) complex. An atomic model displaying tertiary structure for the entire ? subunit was constructed using chemical cross-linking, MS, threading, and ab initio approaches. Nearly all this model is covered by two templates corresponding to glycosyl hydrolase 15 family members and the A subunit of protein phosphatase 2A. Regarding the quaternary structure of the ? subunits, they were directly determined to compose the four interconnecting bridges in the (????)(4) kinase core, because a ?(4) subcomplex was observed through both chemical cross-linking and top-down MS of PhK. The predicted model of the ? subunit was docked within the bridges of a cryoelectron microscopic density envelope of PhK utilizing known surface features of the subunit.

SUBMITTER: Nadeau OW

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3481268 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Structure and location of the regulatory β subunits in the (αβγδ)4 phosphorylase kinase complex.

Nadeau Owen W OW Lane Laura A LA Xu Dong D Sage Jessica J Priddy Timothy S TS Artigues Antonio A Villar Maria T MT Yang Qing Q Robinson Carol V CV Zhang Yang Y Carlson Gerald M GM

The Journal of biological chemistry 20120911 44

Phosphorylase kinase (PhK) is a hexadecameric (αβγδ)(4) complex that regulates glycogenolysis in skeletal muscle. Activity of the catalytic γ subunit is regulated by allosteric activators targeting the regulatory α, β, and δ subunits. Three-dimensional EM reconstructions of PhK show it to be two large (αβγδ)(2) lobes joined with D(2) symmetry through interconnecting bridges. The subunit composition of these bridges was unknown, although indirect evidence suggested the β subunits may be involved ...[more]

PMID: 22969083

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Project description:Phosphorylase kinase (PhK), an (alphabetagammadelta)(4) complex, regulates glycogenolysis. Its activity, catalyzed by the gamma subunit, is tightly controlled by phosphorylation and activators acting through allosteric sites on its regulatory alpha, beta and delta subunits. Activation by phosphorylation is predominantly mediated by the regulatory beta subunit, which undergoes a conformational change that is structurally linked with the gamma subunit and that is characterized by the ability of a short chemical crosslinker to form beta-beta dimers. To determine potential regions of interaction of the beta and gamma subunits, we have used chemical crosslinking and two-hybrid screening. The beta and gamma subunits were crosslinked to each other in phosphorylated PhK, and crosslinked peptides from digests were identified by Fourier transform mass spectrometry, beginning with a search engine developed "in house" that generates a hypothetical list of crosslinked peptides. A conjugate between beta and gamma that was verified by MS/MS corresponded to crosslinking between K303 in the C-terminal regulatory domain of gamma (gammaCRD) and R18 in the N-terminal regulatory region of beta (beta1-31), which contains the phosphorylatable serines 11 and 26. A synthetic peptide corresponding to residues 1-22 of beta inhibited the crosslinking between beta and gamma, and was itself crosslinked to K303 of gamma. In two-hybrid screening, the beta1-31 region controlled beta subunit self-interactions, in that they were favored by truncation of this region or by mutation of the phosphorylatable serines 11 and 26, thus providing structural evidence for a phosphorylation-dependent subunit communication network in the PhK complex involving at least these two regulatory regions of the beta and gamma subunits. The sum of our results considered together with previous findings implicates the gammaCRD as being an allosteric activation switch in PhK that interacts with all three of the enzyme's regulatory subunits and is proximal to the active site cleft.

Project description:Skeletal muscle phosphorylase kinase (PhK) is an (alphabetagammadelta) 4 hetero-oligomeric enzyme complex that phosphorylates and activates glycogen phosphorylase b (GP b) in a Ca (2+)-dependent reaction that couples muscle contraction with glycogen breakdown. GP b is PhK's only known in vivo substrate; however, given the great size and multiple subunits of the PhK complex, we screened muscle extracts for other potential targets. Extracts of P/J (control) and I/lnJ (PhK deficient) mice were incubated with [gamma- (32)P]ATP with or without Ca (2+) and compared to identify potential substrates. Candidate targets were resolved by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and phosphorylated glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectroscopy. In vitro studies showed GAPDH to be a Ca (2+)-dependent substrate of PhK, although the rate of phosphorylation is very slow. GAPDH does, however, bind tightly to PhK, inhibiting at low concentrations (IC 50 approximately 0.45 microM) PhK's conversion of GP b. When a short synthetic peptide substrate was substituted for GP b, the inhibition was negligible, suggesting that GAPDH may inhibit predominantly by binding to the PhK complex at a locus distinct from its active site on the gamma subunit. To test this notion, the PhK-GAPDH complex was incubated with a chemical cross-linker, and a dimer between the regulatory beta subunit of PhK and GAPDH was formed. This interaction was confirmed by the fact that a subcomplex of PhK missing the beta subunit, specifically an alphagammadelta subcomplex, was unable to phosphorylate GAPDH, even though it is catalytically active toward GP b. Moreover, GAPDH had no effect on the conversion of GP b by the alphagammadelta subcomplex. The interactions described herein between the beta subunit of PhK and GAPDH provide a possible mechanism for the direct linkage of glycogenolysis and glycolysis in skeletal muscle.

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Structure and location of the regulatory ? subunits in the (????)4 phosphorylase kinase complex.

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Structure and location of the regulatory β subunits in the (αβγδ)4 phosphorylase kinase complex.

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