作者
Shehryar Ahmad, Isis J Gordon, Kara K Tsang, Andrea G Alexei, David Sychantha, Jake Colautti, Sarah L Trilesky, Youngchang Kim, Boyuan Wang, John C Whitney
发表日期
2023/4/4
期刊
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
卷号
120
期号
14
页码范围
e2213771120
出版商
National Academy of Sciences
简介
Bacteria produce a variety of nucleotide second messengers to adapt to their surroundings. Although chemically similar, the nucleotides guanosine penta- and tetraphosphate [(p)ppGpp] and adenosine penta- and tetraphosphate [(p)ppApp] have distinct functions in bacteria. (p)ppGpp mediates survival under nutrient-limiting conditions and its intracellular levels are regulated by synthetases and hydrolases belonging to the RelA-SpoT homolog (RSH) family of enzymes. By contrast, (p)ppApp is not known to be involved in nutrient stress responses and is synthesized by RSH-resembling toxins that inhibit the growth of bacterial cells. However, it remains unclear whether there exists a family of hydrolases that specifically act on (p)ppApp to reverse its toxic effects. Here, we present the structure and biochemical characterization of adenosine 3′-pyrophosphohydrolase 1 (Aph1), the founding member of a …
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