Substrate N2atom recognition mechanism in pierisin family DNA-targeting, guanine-specific ADP-ribosyltransferase ScARP.
Yoshida, T., Tsuge, H.(2018) J Biol Chem 293: 13768-13774
- PubMed: 30072382 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.AC118.004412
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
5ZJ4, 5ZJ5 - PubMed Abstract: 
ScARP from the bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor belongs to the pierisin family of DNA-targeting ADP-ribosyltransferases (ARTs). These enzymes ADP-ribosylate the N 2 amino groups of guanine residues in DNA to yield N 2 -(ADP-ribos-1-yl)-2'-deoxyguanosine. Although the structures of pierisin-1 and Scabin were revealed recently, the substrate recognition mechanisms remain poorly understood because of the lack of a substrate-binding structure. Here, we report the apo structure of ScARP and of ScARP bound to NADH and its GDP substrate at 1.50 and 1.57 Å resolutions, respectively. The bound structure revealed that the guanine of GDP is trapped between N -ribose of NADH and Trp-159. Interestingly, N 2 and N 3 of guanine formed hydrogen bonds with the OE1 and NE2 atoms of Gln-162, respectively. We directly observed that the ADP-ribosylating toxin turn-turn (ARTT)-loop, including Trp-159 and Gln-162, plays a key role in the specificity of DNA-targeting, guanine-specific ARTs as well as protein-targeting ARTs such as the C3 exoenzyme. We propose that the ARTT-loop recognition is a common substrate-recognition mechanism in the pierisin family. Furthermore, this complex structure sheds light on similarities and differences among two subclasses that are distinguished by conserved structural motifs: H-Y-E in the ARTD subfamily and R-S-E in the ARTC subfamily. The spatial arrangements of the electrophile and nucleophile were the same, providing the first evidence for a common reaction mechanism in these ARTs. ARTC (including ScARP) uses the ARTT-loop for substrate recognition, whereas ARTD (represented by Arr) uses the C-terminal helix instead of the ARTT-loop. These observations could help inform efforts to improve ART inhibitors.
Organizational Affiliation: 
From the Department of Bioresource and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences.