Download MendeleyStructures of substrate- and product-bound forms of a multi-domain copper nitrite reductase shed light on the role of domain tethering in protein complexes.
Sasaki, D., Watanabe, T.F., Eady, R.R., Garratt, R.C., Antonyuk, S.V., Hasnain, S.S.(2020) IUCrJ 7: 557-565
- PubMed: 32431838
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2052252520005230
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:
6TFD, 6TFO - PubMed Abstract:
Copper-containing nitrite reductases (CuNiRs) are found in all three kingdoms of life and play a major role in the denitrification branch of the global nitro-gen cycle where nitrate is used in place of di-oxy-gen as an electron acceptor in respiratory energy metabolism. Several C- and N-terminal redox domain tethered CuNiRs have been identified and structurally characterized during the last decade. Our understanding of the role of tethered domains in these new classes of three-domain CuNiRs, where an extra cytochrome or cupredoxin domain is tethered to the catalytic two-domain CuNiRs, has remained limited. This is further compounded by a complete lack of substrate-bound structures for these tethered CuNiRs. There is still no substrate-bound structure for any of the as-isolated wild-type tethered enzymes. Here, structures of nitrite and product-bound states from a nitrite-soaked crystal of the N-terminal cupredoxin-tethered enzyme from the Hyphomicrobium denitrificans strain 1NES1 ( Hd 1NES1 NiR) are provided. These, together with the as-isolated structure of the same species, provide clear evidence for the role of the N-terminal peptide bearing the conserved His27 in water-mediated anchoring of the substrate at the catalytic T2Cu site. Our data indicate a more complex role of tethering than the intuitive advantage for a partner-protein electron-transfer complex by narrowing the conformational search in such a combined system.
Organizational Affiliation:
Molecular Biophysics Group, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom.
