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Conformational response to ligand binding in phosphomannomutase2: insights into inborn glycosylation disorder.


ABSTRACT: The most common glycosylation disorder is caused by mutations in the gene encoding phosphomannomutase2, producing a disease still without a cure. Phosphomannomutase2, a homodimer in which each chain is composed of two domains, requires a bisphosphate sugar (either mannose or glucose) as activator, opening a possible drug design path for therapeutic purposes. The crystal structure of human phosphomannomutase2, however, lacks bound substrate and a key active site loop. To speed up drug discovery, we present here the first structural model of a bisphosphate substrate bound to human phosphomannomutase2. Taking advantage of recent developments in all-atom simulation techniques in combination with limited and site-directed proteolysis, we demonstrated that ?-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate can adopt two low energy orientations as required for catalysis. Upon ligand binding, the two domains come close, making the protein more compact, in analogy to the enzyme in the crystals from Leishmania mexicana. Moreover, proteolysis was also carried out on two common mutants, R141H and F119L. It was an unexpected finding that the mutant most frequently found in patients, R141H, although inactive, does bind ?-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate and changes conformation.

SUBMITTER: Andreotti G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4263888 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Conformational response to ligand binding in phosphomannomutase2: insights into inborn glycosylation disorder.

Andreotti Giuseppina G   Cabeza de Vaca Israel I   Poziello Angelita A   Monti Maria Chiara MC   Guallar Victor V   Cubellis Maria Vittoria MV  

The Journal of biological chemistry 20141016 50


The most common glycosylation disorder is caused by mutations in the gene encoding phosphomannomutase2, producing a disease still without a cure. Phosphomannomutase2, a homodimer in which each chain is composed of two domains, requires a bisphosphate sugar (either mannose or glucose) as activator, opening a possible drug design path for therapeutic purposes. The crystal structure of human phosphomannomutase2, however, lacks bound substrate and a key active site loop. To speed up drug discovery,  ...[more]

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