title: Structure of the Roc-COR domain tandem of C. tepidum, a prokaryotic homologue of the human LRRK2 Parkinson kinase.
abstract: Ras of complex proteins (Roc) belongs to the superfamily of Ras-related small G-proteins that always occurs in tandem with the C-terminal of Roc (COR) domain. This Roc-COR tandem is found in the bacterial and eukaryotic world. Its most prominent member is the leucine-rich repeat kinase LRRK2, which is mutated and activated in Parkinson patients. Here, we investigated biochemically and structurally the Roco protein from Chlorobium tepidum. We show that Roc is highly homologous to Ras, whereas the COR domain is a dimerisation device. The juxtaposition of the G-domains and mutational analysis suggest that the Roc GTPase reaction is stimulated and/or regulated by dimerisation in a nucleotide-dependent manner. The region most conserved between bacteria and man is the interface between Roc and COR, where single-point Parkinson mutations of the Roc and COR domains are in close proximity. The analogous mutations in C. tepidum Roc-COR decrease the GTPase reaction rate, most likely due to a modification of the interaction between the Roc and COR domains.
authors.affiliation: Department of Structural Biology, Max-Planck-Institut for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany.
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gotthardt
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weyand
authors.forename: Arjan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kortholt
authors.forename: Peter J M
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Van Haastert
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wittinghofer
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D041883:Chlorobium / Q000201:enzymology*; D019281:Dimerization; D020558:GTP Phosphohydrolases / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D000071158:Leucine-Rich Repeat Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase-2; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics; D010300:Parkinson Disease / Q000201:enzymology*; D011387:Prokaryotic Cells / Q000201:enzymology*; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000737:chemistry*; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014357:Trypsin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C495280:LRRK2 protein, human; D000071158:Leucine-Rich Repeat Serine-Threonine Protein Kinase-2; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; D014357:Trypsin; D020558:GTP Phosphohydrolases