S.enterica HisA mutant D7N, D10G, dup13-15, Q24L, G102AS.enterica HisA mutant D7N, D10G, dup13-15, Q24L, G102A

Structural highlights

5ab3 is a 3 chain structure with sequence from Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Cubana str. 76814. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance.
Method:X-ray diffraction, Resolution 1.803Å
Ligands:,
Resources:FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT

Function

HIS4_SALTY

Publication Abstract from PubMed

New genes can arise by duplication and divergence, but there is a fundamental gap in our understanding of the relationship between these genes, the evolving proteins they encode, and the fitness of the organism. Here we used crystallography, NMR dynamics, kinetics, and mass spectrometry to explain the molecular innovations that arose during a previous real-time evolution experiment. In that experiment, the (betaalpha)8 barrel enzyme HisA was under selection for two functions (HisA and TrpF), resulting in duplication and divergence of the hisA gene to encode TrpF specialists, HisA specialists, and bifunctional generalists. We found that selection affects enzyme structure and dynamics, and thus substrate preference, simultaneously and sequentially. Bifunctionality is associated with two distinct sets of loop conformations, each essential for one function. We observed two mechanisms for functional specialization: structural stabilization of each loop conformation and substrate-specific adaptation of the active site. Intracellular enzyme performance, calculated as the product of catalytic efficiency and relative expression level, was not linearly related to fitness. Instead, we observed thresholds for each activity above which further improvements in catalytic efficiency had little if any effect on growth rate. Overall, we have shown how beneficial substitutions selected during real-time evolution can lead to manifold changes in enzyme function and bacterial fitness. This work emphasizes the speed at which adaptive evolution can yield enzymes with sufficiently high activities such that they no longer limit the growth of their host organism, and confirms the (betaalpha)8 barrel as an inherently evolvable protein scaffold.

Structural and functional innovations in the real-time evolution of new (betaalpha)8 barrel enzymes.,Newton MS, Guo X, Soderholm A, Nasvall J, Lundstrom P, Andersson DI, Selmer M, Patrick WM Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Apr 17. pii: 201618552. doi:, 10.1073/pnas.1618552114. PMID:28416687[1]

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References

  1. Newton MS, Guo X, Soderholm A, Nasvall J, Lundstrom P, Andersson DI, Selmer M, Patrick WM. Structural and functional innovations in the real-time evolution of new (betaalpha)8 barrel enzymes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Apr 17. pii: 201618552. doi:, 10.1073/pnas.1618552114. PMID:28416687 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618552114

5ab3, resolution 1.80Å

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