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- Title
Protein polyglutamylation catalyzed by the bacterial calmodulin-dependent pseudokinase SidJ.
- Authors
Sulpizio, Alan; Minelli, Marena E.; Min Wan; Burrowes, Paul D.; Xiaochun Wu; Sanford, Ethan J.; Jung-Ho Shin; Williams, Byron C.; Goldberg, Michael L.; Smolka, Marcus B.; Yuxin Mao
- Abstract
Pseudokinases are considered to be the inactive counterparts of conventional protein kinases and comprise approximately 10% of the human and mouse kinomes. Here, we report the crystal structure of the Legionella pneumophila effector protein, SidJ, in complex with the eukaryotic Ca2+-binding regulator, calmodulin (CaM). The structure reveals that SidJ contains a protein kinase-like fold domain, which retains a majority of the characteristic kinase catalytic motifs. However, SidJ fails to demonstrate kinase activity. Instead, mass spectrometry and in vitro biochemical analyses demonstrate that SidJ modifies another Legionella effector SdeA, an unconventional phosphoribosyl ubiquitin ligase, by adding glutamate molecules to a specific residue of SdeA in a CaM-dependent manner. Furthermore, we show that SidJ-mediated polyglutamylation suppresses the ADP-ribosylation activity. Our work further implies that some pseudokinases may possess ATP-dependent activities other than conventional phosphorylation.
- Subjects
LEGIONELLA pneumophila; CALMODULIN; PROTEIN kinases; PROTEINS; PROTEIN folding; MASS spectrometry; UBIQUITIN ligases
- Publication
eLife, 2019, p1
- ISSN
2050-084X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7554/eLife.51162