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Local frustration determines loop opening during the catalytic cycle of an oxidoreductase

  1. Lukas L Stelzl
  2. Despoina A I Mavridou
  3. Emmanuel Saridakis
  4. Diego Gonzalez
  5. Andrew J Baldwin
  6. Stuart J Ferguson
  7. Mark SP Sansom  Is a corresponding author
  8. Christina Redfield  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  2. University of Texas at Austin, United States
  3. NCSR Demokritos, Greece
  4. University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54661
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  1. Lukas L Stelzl
  2. Despoina A I Mavridou
  3. Emmanuel Saridakis
  4. Diego Gonzalez
  5. Andrew J Baldwin
  6. Stuart J Ferguson
  7. Mark SP Sansom
  8. Christina Redfield
(2020)
Local frustration determines loop opening during the catalytic cycle of an oxidoreductase
eLife 9:e54661.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54661
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Abstract

Local structural frustration, the existence of mutually exclusive competing interactions, may explain why some proteins are dynamic while others are rigid. Frustration is thought to underpin biomolecular recognition and the flexibility of protein binding sites. Here we show how a small chemical modification, the oxidation of two cysteine thiols to a disulfide bond, during the catalytic cycle of the N-terminal domain of the key bacterial oxidoreductase DsbD (nDsbD), introduces frustration ultimately influencing protein function. In oxidized nDsbD, local frustration disrupts the packing of the protective cap-loop region against the active site allowing loop opening. By contrast, in reduced nDsbD the cap loop is rigid, always protecting the active-site thiols from the oxidizing environment of the periplasm. Our results point towards an intricate coupling between the dynamics of the active-site cysteines and of the cap loop which modulates the association reactions of nDsbD with its partners resulting in optimized protein function.

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  1. Lukas L Stelzl

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  2. Despoina A I Mavridou

    Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
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  3. Emmanuel Saridakis

    Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece
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  4. Diego Gonzalez

    Department of Biology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland
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  5. Andrew J Baldwin

    Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  6. Stuart J Ferguson

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  7. Mark SP Sansom

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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  8. Christina Redfield

    Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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    christina.redfield@bioch.ox.ac.uk
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Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/F01709X/1)

  • Lukas L Stelzl

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/R00126X/1)

  • Mark SP Sansom

Wellcome (208361/Z/17/Z)

  • Mark SP Sansom

Wellcome (079440)

  • Christina Redfield

Wellcome (092532/Z/10/Z)

  • Stuart J Ferguson
  • Christina Redfield

Swiss National Science Foundation (P300PA_167703)

  • Diego Gonzalez

Swiss National Science Foundation (PZ00P3_180142)

  • Diego Gonzalez

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. Lewis E Kay, University of Toronto, Canada

Version history

  1. Received: December 21, 2019
  2. Accepted: June 21, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: June 22, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: July 9, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Stelzl et al.

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  1. Lukas L Stelzl
  2. Despoina A I Mavridou
  3. Emmanuel Saridakis
  4. Diego Gonzalez
  5. Andrew J Baldwin
  6. Stuart J Ferguson
  7. Mark SP Sansom
  8. Christina Redfield
(2020)
Local frustration determines loop opening during the catalytic cycle of an oxidoreductase
eLife 9:e54661.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54661

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