Cryo-EM structures of CTP synthase filaments reveal mechanism of pH-sensitive assembly during budding yeast starvation
- University of Washington, United States
Abstract
Many metabolic enzymes self-assemble into micron-scale filaments to organize and regulate metabolism. The appearance of these assemblies often coincides with large metabolic changes as in development, cancer, and stress. Yeast undergo cytoplasmic acidification upon starvation, triggering the assembly of many metabolic enzymes into filaments. However, it is unclear how these filaments assemble at the molecular level and what their role is in the yeast starvation response. CTP Synthase (CTPS) assembles into metabolic filaments across many species. Here, we characterize in vitro polymerization and investigate in vivo consequences of CTPS assembly in yeast. Cryo-EM structures reveal a pH-sensitive assembly mechanism and highly ordered filament bundles that stabilize an inactive state of the enzyme, features unique to yeast CTPS. Disruption of filaments in cells with non-assembly or pH-insensitive mutations decreases growth rate, reflecting the importance of regulated CTPS filament assembly in homeotstasis.
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models deposited to PDB as: 7RL0,7RNR,7RKH,7RL5,7RNL,7RMF,7RMK,7RMC,7RMO,7RMVmaps deposited to EMDB as: EMD-24512,EMD-24581,EMD-24497,EMD-24516,EMD-24579,EMD-24566,EMD-24575,EMD-24560,EMD-24576,EMD-24578
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National Institutes of Health (R01 grant,GM118396)
- Justin M Kollman
National Institutes of Health (Graduate Student Training Grant,T32 GM007270)
- Jesse M Hansen
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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© 2021, Hansen et al.
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Cryo-EM structures of CTP synthase filaments reveal mechanism of pH-sensitive assembly during budding yeast starvation
eLife 10:e73368.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.73368
