Intersubunit ionic interactions stabilize the nucleoside diphosphate kinase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Florian Georgescauld; Lucile Moynie; Johann Habersetzer; Laura Cervoni; Iulia Mocan; Tudor Borza; Pernille Hanne Harris; Alain Dautant; Ioan Lascu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057867

Intersubunit ionic interactions stabilize the nucleoside diphosphate kinase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Florian Georgescauld, Lucile Moynie, Johann Habersetzer, Laura Cervoni, Iulia Mocan, Tudor Borza, Pernille Hanne Harris, Alain Dautant, Ioan Lascu

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Abstract

Most nucleoside diphosphate kinases (NDPKs) are hexamers. The C-terminal tail interacting with the neighboring subunits is crucial for hexamer stability. In the NDPK from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt) this tail is missing. The quaternary structure of Mt-NDPK is essential for full enzymatic activity and for protein stability to thermal and chemical denaturation. We identified the intersubunit salt bridge Arg(80) -Asp(93) as essential for hexamer stability, compensating for the decreased intersubunit contact area. Breaking the salt bridge by the mutation D93N dramatically decreased protein thermal stability. The mutation also decreased stability to denaturation by urea and guanidinium. The D93N mutant was still hexameric and retained full activity. When exposed to low concentrations of urea it dissociated into folded monomers followed by unfolding while dissociation and unfolding of the wild type simultaneously occur at higher urea concentrations. The dissociation step was not observed in guanidine hydrochloride, suggesting that low concentration of salt may stabilize the hexamer. Indeed, guanidinium and many other salts stabilized the hexamer with a half maximum effect of about 0.1 M, increasing protein thermostability. The crystal structure of the D93N mutant has been solved.

Original language	English
Article number	e57867
Journal	P L o S One
Volume	8
Issue number	3
Number of pages	11
ISSN	1932-6203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057867
Publication status	Published - 5 Mar 2013

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