research papers Crystal structure and interaction studies of human IUCrJ DHTKD1 provide insight into a mitochondrial ISSN 2052-2525 megacomplex in lysine catabolism BIOLOGYjMEDICINE Gustavo A. Bezerra,a‡ William R. Foster,a‡ Henry J. Bailey,a‡ Kevin G. Hicks,b Sven W. Sauer,c Bianca Dimitrov,c Thomas J. McCorvie,a Ju¨rgen G. Okun,c Jared Rutter,b Stefan Ko¨lkerc and Wyatt W. Yuea* Received 31 January 2020 Accepted 22 May 2020 aStructural Genomics Consortium, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX3 7DQ, United Kingdom, bDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, USA, and cDivision of Child Neurology and Metabolic Medicine, Centre for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Clinic I, University Hospital Heidelberg, Edited by L. A. Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Germany. *Correspondence e-mail:
[email protected] Molecular Biology, UK ‡ These authors contributed equally to this DHTKD1 is a lesser-studied E1 enzyme among the family of 2-oxoacid work. dehydrogenases. In complex with E2 (dihydrolipoamide succinyltransferase, DLST) and E3 (dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase, DLD) components, Keywords: human DHTKD1; 2-oxoadipate; 2- DHTKD1 is involved in lysine and tryptophan catabolism by catalysing the oxoacid dehydrogenase; thiamine diphosphate; oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoadipate (2OA) in mitochondria. Here, the lysine catabolism; cryo-EM; enzyme mechan- ˚ isms; multi-protein complexes. 1.9 A resolution crystal structure of human DHTKD1 is solved in complex with the thiamine diphosphate co-factor. The structure reveals how the DHTKD1 EMDB reference: EMD-11014 active site is modelled upon the well characterized homologue 2-oxoglutarate (2OG) dehydrogenase but engineered specifically to accommodate its PDB reference: DHTKD1, 6sy1 preference for the longer substrate of 2OA over 2OG.