Instability in a coiled-coil signaling helix is conserved for signal transduction in soluble guanylyl cyclase
dc.contributor.author | Weichsel, Andrzej | |
dc.contributor.author | Kievenaar, Jessica A | |
dc.contributor.author | Curry, Roslyn | |
dc.contributor.author | Croft, Jacob T | |
dc.contributor.author | Montfort, William R | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-10-09T19:24:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-10-09T19:24:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-10-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Weichsel A, Kievenaar JA, Curry R, Croft JT, Montfort WR. Instability in a coiled-coil signaling helix is conserved for signal transduction in soluble guanylyl cyclase. Protein Science. 2019; 28: 1830–1839. https://doi.org/10.1002/ pro.3707 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0961-8368 | |
dc.identifier.pmid | 31411784 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/pro.3707 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/634711 | |
dc.description.abstract | How nitric oxide (NO) activates its primary receptor, α1/β1 soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC or GC‐1), remains unknown. Likewise, how stimulatory compounds enhance sGC activity is poorly understood, hampering development of new treatments for cardiovascular disease. NO binding to ferrous heme near the N‐terminus in sGC activates cyclase activity near the C‐terminus, yielding cGMP production and physiological response. CO binding can also stimulate sGC, but only weakly in the absence of stimulatory small‐molecule compounds, which together lead to full activation. How ligand binding enhances catalysis, however, has yet to be discovered. Here, using a truncated version of sGC from Manduca sexta, we demonstrate that the central coiled‐coil domain, the most highly conserved region of the ~150,000 Da protein, not only provides stability to the heterodimer but is also conformationally active in signal transduction. Sequence conservation in the coiled coil includes the expected heptad‐repeating pattern for coiled‐coil motifs, but also invariant positions that disfavor coiled‐coil stability. Full‐length coiled coil dampens CO affinity for heme, while shortening of the coiled coil leads to enhanced CO binding. Introducing double mutation αE447L/βE377L, predicted to replace two destabilizing glutamates with leucines, lowers CO binding affinity while increasing overall protein stability. Likewise, introduction of a disulfide bond into the coiled coil results in reduced CO affinity. Taken together, we demonstrate that the heme domain is greatly influenced by coiled‐coil conformation, suggesting communication between heme and catalytic domains is through the coiled coil. Highly conserved structural imperfections in the coiled coil provide needed flexibility for signal transduction. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Cancer InstituteUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) [P30 CA023074, U54 CA143924]; National Institute of General Medical SciencesUnited States Department of Health & Human ServicesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) - USANIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) [R01 GM117357, R25 GM121228, T32 GM008804, T34 GM008718]; American Heart AssociationAmerican Heart Association [16PRE31090034] | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | WILEY | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2019 The Protein Society. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | GC-1 | en_US |
dc.subject | YC-1 | en_US |
dc.subject | cGMP | en_US |
dc.subject | guanylate cyclase | en_US |
dc.subject | leucine zipper | en_US |
dc.subject | nitric oxide | en_US |
dc.subject | stimulator compound | en_US |
dc.title | Instability in a coiled-coil signaling helix is conserved for signal transduction in soluble guanylyl cyclase | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Univ Arizona, Dept Chem & Biochem | en_US |
dc.identifier.journal | PROTEIN SCIENCE | en_US |
dc.description.note | 12 month embargo; published online: 14 August 2019 | en_US |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final accepted manuscript | en_US |
dc.source.journaltitle | Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society |