Structural insights into sodium transport by the oxaloacetate decarboxylase sodium pump

  1. Xin Xu
  2. Huigang Shi
  3. Xiaowen Gong
  4. Ying Gao
  5. Xinzheng Zhang  Is a corresponding author
  6. Song Xiang  Is a corresponding author
  1. Tianjin Medical University, China
  2. Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  3. Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Abstract

The oxaloacetate decarboxylase sodium pump (OAD) is a unique primary-active transporter that utilizes the free energy derived from oxaloacetate decarboxylation for sodium transport across the cell membrane. It is composed of 3 subunits: the a subunit catalyzes carboxyl-transfer from oxaloacetate to biotin, the membrane integrated β subunit catalyzes the subsequent carboxyl-biotin decarboxylation and the coupled sodium transport, the γ subunit interacts with the a and β subunits and stabilizes the OAD complex. We present here structure of the Salmonella typhimurium OAD βγ sub-complex. The structure revealed that the β and γ subunits form a β3γ3 hetero-hexamer with extensive interactions between the subunits and shed light on the OAD holo-enzyme assembly. Structure-guided functional studies provided insights into the sodium binding sites in the β subunit and the coupling between carboxyl-biotin decarboxylation and sodium transport by the OAD β subunit.

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The cryo-EM structure of the StOAD βγ sub-complex and related data have been deposited into the protein data bank (https://www.pdb.org) and the electron microscopy data bank (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/), with the accession numbers 6IWW and EMD-9743, respectively. The crystal structure of the StOAD βγ sub-complex and the diffraction data have been deposited into the protein data bank with the accession number 6IVA. Source data for Figure 4c-d, Figure 4-figure supplement 1, Figure 5b-c, Figure 5-figure supplement 1, Figure 6a, Figure 6-figure supplement 1, and Figure 6-figure supplement 2a-b are provided.

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  1. Xin Xu

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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  2. Huigang Shi

    National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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  3. Xiaowen Gong

    CAS Key Laboratory of Nutrition, Metabolism and Food safety, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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  4. Ying Gao

    CAS Key Laboratory of Nutrition, Metabolism and Food safety, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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  5. Xinzheng Zhang

    National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, CAS center for Excellence in Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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    xzzhang@ibp.ac.cn
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  6. Song Xiang

    Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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    xiangsong@tmu.edu.cn
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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (31870769)

  • Song Xiang

National Natural Science Foundation of China (31570743)

  • Song Xiang

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. José D Faraldo-Gómez, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, United States

Version history

  1. Received: November 22, 2019
  2. Accepted: May 22, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: May 27, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: June 5, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Xu et al.

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  1. Xin Xu
  2. Huigang Shi
  3. Xiaowen Gong
  4. Ying Gao
  5. Xinzheng Zhang
  6. Song Xiang
(2020)
Structural insights into sodium transport by the oxaloacetate decarboxylase sodium pump
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