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Exploring Modular Allostery Via Interchangeable Regulatory Domains Exploring modular allostery via interchangeable regulatory domains Yifei Fana,b, Penelope J. Crossa,b, Geoffrey B. Jamesonc, and Emily J. Parkerb,d,e,1 aBiomolecular Interaction Centre, University of Canterbury, 8140 Christchurch, New Zealand; bDepartment of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, 8140 Christchurch, New Zealand; cMaurice Wilkins Centre, Institute of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University, 4442 Palmerston North, New Zealand; dMaurice Wilkins Centre, Biomolecular Interaction Centre, University of Canterbury, 8140 Christchurch, New Zealand; and eFerrier Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, 6140 Wellington, New Zealand Edited by Perry Allen Frey, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, and approved February 8, 2018 (received for review October 12, 2017) Most proteins comprise two or more domains from a limited suite allow formation of prephenate by chorismate mutase (CM) as well of protein families. These domains are often rearranged in various as a series of other important metabolites, including aromatic amino combinations through gene fusion events to evolve new protein acids Phe, Tyr, and Trp (Fig. 1) (15). DAH7PS, situated at the first functions, including the acquisition of protein allostery through committed step of the pathway, is often precisely feedback regu- the incorporation of regulatory domains. The enzyme 3-deoxy-D- lated to control pathway flux in response to metabolic demand via a arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase (DAH7PS) is the first variety of allosteric strategies in different organisms. This allostery enzyme of aromatic amino acid biosynthesis and displays a diverse ranges from physical gating mechanisms undertaking large confor- range of allosteric mechanisms. DAH7PSs adopt a common archi- mational changes to highly intricate through-protein dynamic net- β α tecture with a shared ( / )8 catalytic domain which can be at- works (16). The levels of chorismate, prephenate, and the aromatic tached to an ACT-like or a chorismate mutase regulatory domain amino acids are important check points for feedback regulation of that operates via distinct mechanisms. These respective domains the DAH7PS function (16). confer allosteric regulation by controlling DAH7PS function in re- Most DAH7PS enzymes are tetrameric in solution, with each sponse to ligand Tyr or prephenate. Starting with contemporary chain comprising a (β/α) catalytic barrel. This barrel is frequently DAH7PS proteins, two protein chimeras were created, with inter- 8 decorated with additional structural elements, which are responsible changed regulatory domains. Both engineered proteins were for conferring allostery (16). One major class of DAH7PS enzymes catalytically active and delivered new functional allostery with (type Iβ) share a catalytic domain of a structurally uninterrupted switched ligand specificity and allosteric mechanisms delivered by β α their nonhomologous regulatory domains. This interchangeability classic TIM barrel ( / )8 fold, and are either unregulated or allo- of protein domains represents an efficient method not only to sterically regulated (Fig. 2A). The simplest form is composed solely engineer allostery in multidomain proteins but to create a new of the barrel without any additional domain, and hence is un- bifunctional enzyme. regulated. This form of DAH7PS enzymes has been characterized from Pyrococcus furiosus and Aeropyrum pernix (17–19). The regu- protein engineering | allostery | bifunctional enzyme | shikimate | lated DAH7PSs in this group display discrete domains appended to synthetic biology the catalytic barrel at the N or C terminus. These domains are ei- ther an ACT-like domain (20) or a CM (AroQ) domain, which rotein allostery is central to the regulation of many biological possesses CM enzymatic activity.TheattachedACT-likeandCM Pprocesses, including ligand transport and metabolic function domains deliver allostery on a tetrameric DAH7PS scaffold via and control. Allostery occurs when ligand binding at one site communicates with a remote functional site, resulting in a change in Significance protein function. Allosteric regulation of protein functions often involves a complex network of interactions to deliver signals be- Protein functions are often evolved from recombination of a tween distal sites. Signal communication is achieved via diverse limited suite of protein folds. Engineering desired function into mechanisms ranging from large conformational changes to subtle proteins via manipulation of the genes, mimicking natural evolu- changes in protein dynamics (1–3). The understanding of these tionary processes, represents a promising approach to synthesiz- remote communications is of great interest, particularly in the fields ing useful molecular tools. Allosteric proteins play important roles of drug design and protein engineering (4, 5). in many biological processes, often as regulatory switches or Most proteins contain two or more domains (6). These do- metabolic checkpoints. In this study, analysis of two natural allo- mains and their interactions govern the function of a protein and steric proteins from different organisms revealed comparable yet are considered evolutionary units for modular assembly of new distinct regulatory mechanisms via conformation rearrangement. protein architectures (7–9). Biological data suggest that only a Interchanging gene segments encoding for the nonhomologous limited number of protein folds exist in nature, and protein regulatory elements of the two proteins results in new functional proteins with switched regulatory behavior. This modular ap- functions evolve from mutation, duplication, and recombination proach represents a step toward a general scheme for construc- of ancestral genes under selective pressure (10). Domain re- tion of functional changes in proteins. combination via gene fusion events represents one of the major – pathways for the evolution of allostery (11 14). This principle Author contributions: Y.F., P.J.C., and E.J.P. designed research; Y.F. and P.J.C. performed has been recognized in many natural systems (12). research; Y.F., P.J.C., G.B.J., and E.J.P. analyzed data; and Y.F., G.B.J., and E.J.P. wrote Theenzyme3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate syn- the paper. thase (DAH7PS) is the first enzyme of the shikimate pathway for The authors declare no conflict of interest. the biosynthesis of aromatic compounds. DAH7PS catalyzes the This article is a PNAS Direct Submission. divalent metal-dependent condensation of two carbohydrate pre- Published under the PNAS license. cursors, phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) and D-erythrose 4-phosphate 1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected]. (E4P), to produce DAH7P and phosphate. This enzyme is essential This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10. for most microorganisms because of its key role in the biosynthesis 1073/pnas.1717621115/-/DCSupplemental. of the intermediate chorismate from which the pathway branches to Published online March 5, 2018. 3006–3011 | PNAS | March 20, 2018 | vol. 115 | no. 12 www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1717621115 Downloaded by guest on September 26, 2021 which existing ligand-binding domains or enzymes can be repur- posed to provide allostery. Results Altered Regulatory and Catalytic Domain Combinations Deliver Functional Proteins. The wild-type parent proteins TmaDAH7PS and GspDAH7PS share similar homotetrameric quaternary structures and tertiary structures, with each chain composed of an N-terminal regulatory domain (respectively, ACT and CM) attached to a catalytic (β/α)8 barrel housing the active site. The TmaDAH7PS and GspDAH7PS catalytic barrels share a mod- erate sequence identity of 56% (Fig. S1). Two protein variants were created with exchanged regulatory and catalytic domains based on the analysis of wild-type sequences and architectures. Both these domain-swapped variants delivered DAH7PS catal- ysis, albeit with some alterations in their catalytic efficiencies (Table 1). Compared with the wild-type TmaDAH7PS, GspCM- TmaDAH7PS, which shares the same catalytic core, exhibited im- paired activity with significantly decreased kcat/KM values for both PEP and E4P substrates, implying there may be some restriction of access for substrates to the catalytic center introduced by the fused CM domains. The origin of this may lie in the fact that the CM domain is dimeric both in the absence and presence of the allosteric ligand, whereas the ACT-like domain only dimerizes upon ligand binding (21, 23). Hence, perhaps unsurprisingly, the adoption of the more restricted GspCM domain to the TmaDAH7PS catalytic core is accompanied by attenuation of catalysis, whereas TmaACT- GspDAH7PS displayed an approximately twofold boost in catalytic efficiency compared with the wild-type GspDAH7PS. That physical constraints restrict catalysis by the DAH7PS core barrel is sup- ported by the higher activity displayed by truncated forms of Fig. 1. The shikimate pathway leads to biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids Trp, Phe, and Tyr. DAH7PS catalyzes the first reaction. The pathway branches at chorismate, where CM catalyzes the conversion of chorismate to pre- phenate en route to formation of Phe and Tyr. The number of arrowheads represents the number of reactions. physical gating of the active site associated with the binding of an allosteric ligand (Fig. 2 B and C)(21–23). This is best exemplified in the well-characterized DAH7PS from Thermotoga maritima (Fig. 2B), which undergoes
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