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Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is a chaperone that allocates labile heme in cells.

ABSTRACT: Cellular heme is thought to be distributed between a pool of sequestered heme that is tightly bound within hemeproteins and a labile heme pool required for signaling and transfer into proteins. A heme chaperone that can hold and allocate labile heme within cells has long been proposed but never been identified. Here, we show that the glycolytic protein glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) fulfills this role by acting as an essential repository and allocator of bioavailable heme to downstream protein targets. We identified a conserved histidine in GAPDH that is needed for its robust heme binding both in vitro and in mammalian cells. Substitution of this histidine, and the consequent decreases in GAPDH heme binding, antagonized heme delivery to both cytosolic and nuclear hemeprotein targets, including inducible nitric-oxide synthase (iNOS) in murine macrophages and the nuclear transcription factor Hap1 in yeast, even though this GAPDH variant caused cellular levels of labile heme to rise dramatically. We conclude that by virtue of its heme-binding property, GAPDH binds and chaperones labile heme to create a heme pool that is bioavailable to downstream proteins. Our finding solves a fundamental question in cell biology and provides a new foundation for exploring heme homeostasis in health and disease.

SUBMITTER: Sweeny EA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6139559 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is a chaperone that allocates labile heme in cells.

Sweeny Elizabeth A EA Singh Anuradha Bharara AB Chakravarti Ritu R Martinez-Guzman Osiris O Saini Arushi A Haque Mohammad Mahfuzul MM Garee Greer G Dans Pablo D PD Hannibal Luciana L Reddi Amit R AR Stuehr Dennis J DJ

The Journal of biological chemistry 20180716 37

Cellular heme is thought to be distributed between a pool of sequestered heme that is tightly bound within hemeproteins and a labile heme pool required for signaling and transfer into proteins. A heme chaperone that can hold and allocate labile heme within cells has long been proposed but never been identified. Here, we show that the glycolytic protein glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) fulfills this role by acting as an essential repository and allocator of bioavailable heme to do ...[more]

PMID: 30012884

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Project description:For a long time cancer cells are known for increased uptake of glucose and its metabolization through glycolysis. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) is a key regulatory enzyme of this pathway and can produce ATP through oxidative level of phosphorylation. Previously, we reported that GAPDH purified from a variety of malignant tissues, but not from normal tissues, was strongly inactivated by a normal metabolite, methylglyoxal (MG). Molecular mechanism behind MG mediated GAPDH inhibition in cancer cells is not well understood.GAPDH was purified from Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) cells based on its enzymatic activity. GAPDH associated proteins in EAC cells and 3-methylcholanthrene (3MC) induced mouse tumor tissue were detected by mass spectrometry analysis and immunoprecipitation (IP) experiment, respectively. Interacting domains of GAPDH and its associated proteins were assessed by in silico molecular docking analysis. Mechanism of MG mediated GAPDH inactivation in cancer cells was evaluated by measuring enzyme activity, Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, IP and mass spectrometry analyses.Here, we report that GAPDH is associated with glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI) and pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) in Ehrlich ascites carcinoma (EAC) cells and also in 3-methylcholanthrene (3MC) induced mouse tumor tissue. Molecular docking analyses suggest C-terminal domain preference for the interaction between GAPDH and GPI. However, both C and N termini of PKM2 might be interacting with the C terminal domain of GAPDH. Expression of both PKM2 and GPI is increased in 3MC induced tumor compared with the normal tissue. In presence of 1 mM MG, association of GAPDH with PKM2 or GPI is not perturbed, but the enzymatic activity of GAPDH is reduced to 26.8 ± 5 % in 3MC induced tumor and 57.8 ± 2.3 % in EAC cells. Treatment of MG to purified GAPDH complex leads to glycation at R399 residue of PKM2 only, and changes the secondary structure of the protein complex.PKM2 may regulate the enzymatic activity of GAPDH. Increased enzymatic activity of GAPDH in tumor cells may be attributed to its association with PKM2 and GPI. Association of GAPDH with PKM2 and GPI could be a signature for cancer cells. Glycation at R399 of PKM2 and changes in the secondary structure of GAPDH complex could be one of the mechanisms by which GAPDH activity is inhibited in tumor cells by MG.

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Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is a chaperone that allocates labile heme in cells.

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Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is a chaperone that allocates labile heme in cells.

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