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Complex allosteric regulation of mycobacterial inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase by purine nucleotides

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61388963%3A_____%2F23%3A00581637" target="_blank" >RIV/61388963:_____/23:00581637 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.xray.cz/setkani/abst2023/630.htm" target="_blank" >https://www.xray.cz/setkani/abst2023/630.htm</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Complex allosteric regulation of mycobacterial inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase by purine nucleotides

  • Original language description

    Inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) is a crucial purine metabolism enzyme that is well established as a potential drug target against mycobacterial infections. However, most previous biochemical and structural studies were performed with IMPDH lacking its regulatory CBS domain, which binds allosteric regulators influencing the activity of IMPDH. This project aims to describe the allosteric regulation of full-length IMPDH and its underlying molecular mechanism. First, we isolated full-length and ΔCBS variants of IMPDH from Mycobacterium smegmatis and performed a detailed in vitro biochemical characterisation. Testing the impact of selected purine nucleotides on IMPDH activity indicated an unexpected regulatory effect of nucleotide ligands at biologically relevant concentrations. Next, to overcome problems with the X-ray crystallography approach, we utilised single particle cryo-EM analysis and, up to now, successfully obtained a series of datasets of IMPDH in complex with its allosteric regulators. Preliminary data suggest structural changes in the active/inhibited forms of IMPDH, which are triggered by the mode of binding of nucleotide ligands to the CBS domain. This might enable us to unravel the mechanism of interdomain crosstalk that leads to changes in the catalytic core of the enzyme. Such a mechanistic insight could contribute to the design of novel antimycobacterial IMPDH-targeting drugs.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    O - Miscellaneous

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5103" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5103: National Institute of Virology and Bacteriology</a><br>

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů