bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/738567; this version posted August 20, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 2 Protein polyglutamylation catalyzed by the bacterial Calmodulin-dependent 3 pseudokinase SidJ 4 5 Alan Sulpizioa,b,1, Marena E. Minellia,b,1, Min Wan a,b,1, Paul D. Burrowesa,b, Xiaochun Wua,b, 6 Ethan Sanforda,b, Jung-Ho Shina,c, Byron Williamsb, Michael Goldbergb, Marcus B. Smolkaa,b, 7 and Yuxin Maoa,b,* 8 9 10 aWeill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. 11 bDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. 12 cDepartment of Microbiology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. 13 14 15 1These authors contributed equally 16 17 Atomic coordinates and structure factors for the reported structures have been deposited into the 18 Protein Data Bank under the accession codes: 6PLM 19 *Correspondence: 20 E-mail:
[email protected] 21 Telephone: 607-255-0783 22 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/738567; this version posted August 20, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 23 Abstract 24 Pseudokinases are considered to be the inactive counterparts of conventional protein 25 kinases and comprise approximately 10% of the human and mouse kinomes. Here we report the 26 crystal structure of the Legionella pneumophila effector protein, SidJ, in complex with the 27 eukaryotic Ca2+-binding regulator, Calmodulin (CaM).