Substrate-binding loop interactions with pseudouridine trigger conformational changes that promote catalytic efficiency of pseudouridine kinase PUKI.

ABSTRACT: Pseudouridine, one major RNA modification, is catabolized into uracil and ribose-5'-phosphate by two sequential enzymatic reactions. In the first step, pseudouridine kinase (PUKI) phosphorylates pseudouridine to pseudouridine 5'-monophosphate. High-fidelity catalysis of pseudouridine by PUKI prevents possible disturbance of in vivo pyrimidine homeostasis. However, the molecular basis of how PUKI selectively phosphorylates pseudouridine over uridine with >100-fold greater efficiency despite minor differences in their K_m values has not been elucidated. To investigate this selectivity, in this study we determined the structures of PUKI from Escherichia coli strain B (EcPUKI) in various ligation states. The structure of EcPUKI was determined to be similar to PUKI from Arabidopsis th

SUBMITTER: Kim SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9061257 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature