Structure of the ATP synthase from Mycobacterium smegmatis provides targets for treating tuberculosis.
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Publication Date
2021-11-23Journal Title
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
ISSN
0027-8424
Publisher
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume
118
Issue
47
Language
eng
Type
Article
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Montgomery, M. G., Petri, J., Spikes, T. E., & Walker, J. (2021). Structure of the ATP synthase from Mycobacterium smegmatis provides targets for treating tuberculosis.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 118 (47) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111899118
Abstract
The structure has been determined by electron cryomicroscopy of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthase from Mycobacterium smegmatis This analysis confirms features in a prior description of the structure of the enzyme, but it also describes other highly significant attributes not recognized before that are crucial for understanding the mechanism and regulation of the mycobacterial enzyme. First, we resolved not only the three main states in the catalytic cycle described before but also eight substates that portray structural and mechanistic changes occurring during a 360° catalytic cycle. Second, a mechanism of auto-inhibition of ATP hydrolysis involves not only the engagement of the C-terminal region of an α-subunit in a loop in the γ-subunit, as proposed before, but also a "fail-safe" mechanism involving the b'-subunit in the peripheral stalk that enhances engagement. A third unreported characteristic is that the fused bδ-subunit contains a duplicated domain in its N-terminal region where the two copies of the domain participate in similar modes of attachment of the two of three N-terminal regions of the α-subunits. The auto-inhibitory plus the associated "fail-safe" mechanisms and the modes of attachment of the α-subunits provide targets for development of innovative antitubercular drugs. The structure also provides support for an observation made in the bovine ATP synthase that the transmembrane proton-motive force that provides the energy to drive the rotary mechanism is delivered directly and tangentially to the rotor via a Grotthuss water chain in a polar L-shaped tunnel.
Keywords
Structure, Regulation, Mycobacteria, ATP synthase, Rotary Mechanism, Animals, Cattle, Mycobacterium smegmatis, Tuberculosis, Mitochondrial Proton-Translocating ATPases, Proteins, Bacterial Proteins, Protein Subunits, Adenosine Triphosphate, Antitubercular Agents, Cryoelectron Microscopy, Protein Conformation, Proton-Motive Force, Hydrolysis, Models, Molecular
Sponsorship
Medical Research Council (MC_EX_MR/M009858/1)
MRC (MC_UU_00015/8)
Identifiers
PMC8617483, 34782468
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111899118
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/332375
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