A mutational analysis of residues in cholera toxin A1 necessary for interaction with its substrate, the stimulatory G protein Gs?.

ABSTRACT: Pathogenesis of cholera diarrhea requires cholera toxin (CT)-mediated adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-ribosylation of stimulatory G protein (Gs?) in enterocytes. CT is an AB5 toxin with an inactive CTA1 domain linked via CTA2 to a pentameric receptor-binding B subunit. Allosterically activated CTA1 fragment in complex with NAD+ and GTP-bound ADP-ribosylation factor 6 (ARF6-GTP) differs conformationally from the CTA1 domain in holotoxin. A surface-exposed knob and a short ?-helix (formed, respectively, by rearranging "active-site" and "activation" loops in inactive CTA1) and an ADP ribosylating turn-turn (ARTT) motif, all located near the CTA1 catalytic site, were evaluated for possible roles in recognizing Gs?. CT variants with one, two or three alanine substitutions at surface-exposed residues within these CTA1 motifs were tested for assembly into holotoxin and ADP-ribosylating activity against Gs? and diethylamino-(benzylidineamino)-guanidine (DEABAG), a small substrate predicted to fit into the CTA1 active site). Variants with single alanine substitutions at H55, R67, L71, S78, or D109 had nearly wild-type activity with DEABAG but significantly decreased activity with Gs?, suggesting that the corresponding residues in native CTA1 participate in recognizing Gs?. As several variants with multiple substitutions at these positions retained partial activity against Gs?, other residues in CTA1 likely also participate in recognizing Gs?.

SUBMITTER: Jobling MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4379533 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature