title: Crystal structure and functional analysis identify the P-loop containing protein YFH7 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an ATP-dependent kinase.
abstract: Genome sequencing projects have revealed that P-loop proteins are highly represented in all organisms and that many of them have no attributed function. They are characterized by a conserved nucleotide-binding domain and carry different activities implicated in many cellular processes. Saccharomyces cerevisiae YFH7 is one of these P-loop proteins of unknown function. In this work we tried to integrate bioinformatics, structure, and enzymology to discover the function of YFH7. Sequence analysis revealed that yeast YFH7 is a yeast-specific protein showing weak similarity with the phosphoribulokinase/uridine kinase/bacterial pantothenate kinase (PRK/URK/PANK) subfamily of P-loop containing kinases. A large insertion of about 100 residues distinguishes YFH7 from other members of the family. The 1.95 A resolution crystal structure of YFH7 solved using the SAD method confirmed that YFH7 has a fold similar to the PRK/URK/PANK family, with the characteristic core, lid, and NMP(bind) domains. An additional alpha/beta domain of novel topology corresponds to the large sequence insertion. Structural and ligand binding analysis combined with enzymatic assays suggest that YFH7 is an ATP-dependent small molecule kinase with new substrate specificity.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, CNRS, 1 av. de la terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur Yvette, France.
authors.forename: Virginie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gueguen-Chaignon
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chaptal
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Larivière
authors.forename: Narciso
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: Solange
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morera
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nessler
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003460:Crystallization; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000737:chemistry*; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D029701:Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins; D011494:Protein Kinases; C528489:YFH7 protein, S cerevisiae