Small Angle X-Ray Scattering Studies of Mitochondrial Glutaminase C Reveal Extended Flexible Regions, and Link Oligomeric State with Enzyme Activity

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  • M. Møller
  • Søren Skou Nielsen
  • Siddharth Ramachandran
  • Yuxing Li
  • G. Tria
  • W. Streicher
  • M.V. Petoukhov
  • R.A. Cerione
  • R.E. Gillilan
  • Vestergaard, Bente
Glutaminase C is a key metabolic enzyme, which is unregulated in many cancer systems and believed to play a central role in the Warburg effect, whereby cancer cells undergo changes to an altered metabolic profile. A long-standing hypothesis links enzymatic activity to the protein oligomeric state, hence the study of the solution behavior in general and the oligomer state in particular of glutaminase C is important for the understanding of the mechanism of protein activation and inhibition. In this report, this is extensively investigated in correlation to enzyme concentration or phosphate level, using a high-throughput microfluidic-mixing chip for the SAXS data collection, and we confirm that the oligomeric state correlates with activity. The in-depth solution behavior analysis further reveals the structural behavior of flexible regions of the protein in the dimeric, tetrameric and octameric state and investigates the C-terminal influence on the enzyme solution behavior. Our data enable SAXS-based rigid body modeling of the full-length tetramer states, thereby presenting the first ever experimentally derived structural model of mitochondrial glutaminase C including the N- and C-termini of the enzyme.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummere74783
TidsskriftP L o S One
Vol/bind8
Udgave nummer9
ISSN1932-6203
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 30 sep. 2013

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