title: Disentangling the web of allosteric communication in a homotetramer: heterotropic activation in phosphofructokinase from Escherichia coli.
abstract: Phosphofructokinase from Escherichia coli (EcPFK) is a homotetramer with four active sites and four allosteric sites. Understanding the allosteric activation of EcPFK by MgADP has been complicated by the complex web of possible interactions, including active site homotropic interactions, allosteric site homotropic interactions, and heterotropic interactions between active and allosteric sites. The current work has simplified this web of possible interactions to a series of single heterotropic interactions by forming and isolating hybrid tetramers. Each of the four unique heterotropic interactions have independently been isolated and compared to a control that has all four of the unique heterotropic interactions. If the interactions are labeled with the distances between interacting ligands, the 45-A interaction contributes 20% +/- 1%, the 33-A interaction contributes 34% +/- 1%, the 30-A interaction contributes 21% +/- 1%, and the 23-A interaction contributes 25% +/- 1% with respect to the total free energy of MgADP/fructose 6-phosphate (Fru-6-P) activation in the control. The free energies of the isolated interactions sum to 100% +/- 2% of the total. Therefore, the four unique interactions are all contributors to activation, are nonequivalent, and are additive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Center for Advanced Biomolecular Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2128, USA.
authors.forename: Aron W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Fenton
authors.forename: N Monique
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Paricharttanakul
authors.forename: Gregory D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Reinhart
mesh_terms: D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000494:Allosteric Regulation / Q000235:genetics; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution / Q000235:genetics; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000235:genetics; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005636:Fructosephosphates / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008024:Ligands; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D010732:Phosphofructokinase-1 / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D021122:Protein Subunits / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005636:Fructosephosphates; D008024:Ligands; D021122:Protein Subunits; D000244:Adenosine Diphosphate; C027618:fructose-6-phosphate; D010732:Phosphofructokinase-1