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Coupling to short linear motifs creates versatile PME-1 activities in PP2A holoenzyme demethylation and inhibition

  1. Yitong Li
  2. Vijaya Kumar Balakrishnan
  3. Michael Rowse
  4. Cheng-Guo Wu
  5. Anastasia Phoebe Bravos
  6. Vikash K Yadav
  7. YIva Ivarsson
  8. Stefan Strack
  9. Irina V Novikova
  10. Yongna Xing  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
  2. Indiana University - Purdue University Columbus, United States
  3. Uppsala University, Sweden
  4. University of Iowa, United States
  5. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79736
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  1. Yitong Li
  2. Vijaya Kumar Balakrishnan
  3. Michael Rowse
  4. Cheng-Guo Wu
  5. Anastasia Phoebe Bravos
  6. Vikash K Yadav
  7. YIva Ivarsson
  8. Stefan Strack
  9. Irina V Novikova
  10. Yongna Xing
(2022)
Coupling to short linear motifs creates versatile PME-1 activities in PP2A holoenzyme demethylation and inhibition
eLife 11:e79736.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79736
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Abstract

Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) holoenzymes target broad substrates by recognizing short motifs via regulatory subunits. PP2A methylesterase 1 (PME-1) is a cancer-promoting enzyme and undergoes methylesterase activation upon binding to the PP2A core enzyme. Here we showed that PME-1 readily demethylates different families of PP2A holoenzymes and blocks substrate recognition in vitro. The high-resolution cryo-EM structure of a PP2A-B56 holoenzyme-PME-1 complex reveals that PME-1 disordered regions, including a substrate-mimicking motif, tether to the B56 regulatory subunit at remote sites. They occupy the holoenzyme substrate-binding groove and allow large structural shifts in both holoenzyme and PME-1 to enable multi-partite contacts at structured cores to activate the methylesterase. B56-interface mutations selectively block PME-1 activity toward PP2A-B56 holoenzymes and affect the methylation of a fraction of total cellular PP2A. The B56-interface mutations allow us to uncover B56-specific PME-1 functions in p53 signaling. Our studies reveal multiple mechanisms of PME-1 in suppressing holoenzyme functions and versatile PME-1 activities derived from coupling substrate-mimicking motifs to dynamic structured cores.

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All data are available in the main text or in the supplementary materials. The cryo-EM map and the refined atomic model of PP2A-B56γ1-PME-1 complex has been deposited at EMDB (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/https://www.ebi.ac.uk/) and RCSB (https://www.rcsb.org/) under the accession codes of EMD-25363 and 7SOY, respectively.

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  1. Yitong Li

    Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  2. Vijaya Kumar Balakrishnan

    Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  3. Michael Rowse

    Indiana University - Purdue University Columbus, Columbus, United States
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  4. Cheng-Guo Wu

    Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  5. Anastasia Phoebe Bravos

    Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  6. Vikash K Yadav

    5Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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  7. YIva Ivarsson

    5Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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  8. Stefan Strack

    Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
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  9. Irina V Novikova

    Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
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  10. Yongna Xing

    Department of Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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Funding

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM137090-01 (Y.X.))

  • Yongna Xing

American Cancer Society (RSG-10-153-01-DMC (Y.X.))

  • Yongna Xing

Jordan's Guardian Angels Foundation and Jordan's Syndrome research consortium fund from the State of California (A19-3376-5007 (Y.X.))

  • Yongna Xing

National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM096060-01 (Y.X.))

  • Yongna Xing

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. Jungsan Sohn, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States

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  1. Received: April 25, 2022
  2. Preprint posted: July 1, 2022 (view preprint)
  3. Accepted: August 3, 2022
  4. Accepted Manuscript published: August 4, 2022 (version 1)
  5. Version of Record published: August 23, 2022 (version 2)

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  1. Yitong Li
  2. Vijaya Kumar Balakrishnan
  3. Michael Rowse
  4. Cheng-Guo Wu
  5. Anastasia Phoebe Bravos
  6. Vikash K Yadav
  7. YIva Ivarsson
  8. Stefan Strack
  9. Irina V Novikova
  10. Yongna Xing
(2022)
Coupling to short linear motifs creates versatile PME-1 activities in PP2A holoenzyme demethylation and inhibition
eLife 11:e79736.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79736

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