The crystal structure of Giardia duodenalis 14-3-3 in the apo form: when protein post-translational modifications make the difference.
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Fiorillo, Annaritadi Marino, Daniele
Bertuccini, Lucia
Via, Allegra
Pozio, Edoardo
Camerini, Serena
Ilari, Andrea
Lalle, Marco
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KUK-I1-012-43Date
2014-03-21Permanent link to this record
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The 14-3-3s are a family of dimeric evolutionary conserved pSer/pThr binding proteins that play a key role in multiple biological processes by interacting with a plethora of client proteins. Giardia duodenalis is a flagellated protozoan that affects millions of people worldwide causing an acute and chronic diarrheal disease. The single giardial 14-3-3 isoform (g14-3-3), unique in the 14-3-3 family, needs the constitutive phosphorylation of Thr214 and the polyglycylation of its C-terminus to be fully functional in vivo. Alteration of the phosphorylation and polyglycylation status affects the parasite differentiation into the cyst stage. To further investigate the role of these post-translational modifications, the crystal structure of the g14-3-3 was solved in the unmodified apo form. Oligomers of g14-3-3 were observed due to domain swapping events at the protein C-terminus. The formation of filaments was supported by TEM. Mutational analysis, in combination with native PAGE and chemical cross-linking, proved that polyglycylation prevents oligomerization. In silico phosphorylation and molecular dynamics simulations supported a structural role for the phosphorylation of Thr214 in promoting target binding. Our findings highlight unique structural features of g14-3-3 opening novel perspectives on the evolutionary history of this protein family and envisaging the possibility to develop anti-giardial drugs targeting g14-3-3.Citation
Fiorillo A, di Marino D, Bertuccini L, Via A, Pozio E, et al. (2014) The Crystal Structure of Giardia duodenalis 14-3-3 in the Apo Form: When Protein Post-Translational Modifications Make the Difference. PLoS ONE 9: e92902. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0092902.Sponsors
This study has been partially supported by the Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (FIRB grant RBFR08F41U), Istituto Superiore di Sanita (1APC/1303/2011), Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), (grant "Tecniche di Bioinformatica strutturale: Modellizzazione di proteine, docking e simulazione di dinamica molecolare), and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, grant KUK-I1-012-43). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Publisher
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24658679PubMed Central ID
PMC3962474ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1371/journal.pone.0092902
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