Affiliation:
1. Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2. Department of Molecular Nutrition and Biochemistry of Plants, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany
3. Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Abstract
Abstract
RNA modifications can regulate the stability of RNAs, mRNA–protein interactions, and translation efficiency. Pseudouridine is a prevalent RNA modification, and its metabolic fate after RNA turnover was recently characterized in eukaryotes, in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Here, we present structural and biochemical analyses of PSEUDOURIDINE KINASE from Arabidopsis (AtPUKI), the enzyme catalyzing the first step in pseudouridine degradation. AtPUKI, a member of the PfkB family of carbohydrate kinases, is a homodimeric α/β protein with a protruding small β-strand domain, which serves simultaneously as dimerization interface and dynamic substrate specificity determinant. AtPUKI has a unique nucleoside binding site specifying the binding of pseudourine, in particular at the nucleobase, by multiple hydrophilic interactions, of which one is mediated by a loop from the small β-strand domain of the adjacent monomer. Conformational transition of the dimerized small β-strand domains containing active site residues is required for substrate specificity. These dynamic features explain the higher catalytic efficiency for pseudouridine over uridine. Both substrates bind well (similar Km), but only pseudouridine is turned over efficiently. Our studies provide an example for structural and functional divergence in the PfkB family and highlight how AtPUKI avoids futile uridine phosphorylation which in vivo would disturb pyrimidine homeostasis.
Funder
National Research Foundation of Korea
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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