Metabolic channeling: predictions, deductions, and evidence

V Pareek, Z Sha, J He, NS Wingreen, SJ Benkovic - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
With the elucidation of myriad anabolic and catabolic enzyme-catalyzed cellular pathways
crisscrossing each other, an obvious question arose: how could these networks operate with …

Human de novo purine biosynthesis

V Pareek, AM Pedley, SJ Benkovic - Critical reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The focus of this review is the human de novo purine biosynthetic pathway. The pathway
enzymes are enumerated, as well as the reactions they catalyze and their physical …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid-liquid phase separation as a common organizing principle of intracellular space and biomembranes providing dynamic adaptive responses

SV Nesterov, NS Ilyinsky, VN Uversky - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work is devoted to the phenomenon of liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), which has
come to be recognized as fundamental organizing principle of living cells. We distinguish …

IMPDH1 retinal variants control filament architecture to tune allosteric regulation

AL Burrell, C Nie, M Said, JC Simonet… - Nature structural & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Inosine-5′-monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH), a key regulatory enzyme in
purine nucleotide biosynthesis, dynamically assembles filaments in response to changes in …

Cryo-EM structures of CTP synthase filaments reveal mechanism of pH-sensitive assembly during budding yeast starvation

JM Hansen, A Horowitz, EM Lynch, DP Farrell… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Many metabolic enzymes self-assemble into micron-scale filaments to organize and
regulate metabolism. The appearance of these assemblies often coincides with large …

Human PRPS1 filaments stabilize allosteric sites to regulate activity

KL Hvorecny, K Hargett, JD Quispe… - Nature structural & …, 2023 - nature.com
The universally conserved enzyme phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate synthetase (PRPS)
assembles filaments in evolutionarily diverse organisms. PRPS is a key regulator of …

Allosteric regulation and crystallographic fragment screening of SARS-CoV-2 NSP15 endoribonuclease

AS Godoy, AM Nakamura, A Douangamath… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The NSP15 endoribonuclease enzyme, known as …

[HTML][HTML] Structural basis of tankyrase activation by polymerization

N Pillay, L Mariotti, M Zaleska, O Inian, M Jessop… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The poly-ADP-ribosyltransferase tankyrase (TNKS, TNKS2) controls a wide range of disease-
relevant cellular processes, including WNT–β-catenin signalling, telomere length …

Neurodevelopmental disorder mutations in the purine biosynthetic enzyme IMPDH2 disrupt its allosteric regulation

AG O'Neill, AL Burrell, M Zech, O Elpeleg… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Inosine 5′ monophosphate dehydrogenase (IMPDH) is a critical regulatory enzyme in
purine nucleotide biosynthesis that is inhibited by the downstream product GTP. Multiple …

[HTML][HTML] Single-particle cryo-EM analysis of the shell architecture and internal organization of an intact α-carboxysome

SL Evans, MMJ Al-Hazeem, D Mann, N Smetacek… - Structure, 2023 - cell.com
Carboxysomes are proteinaceous bacterial microcompartments that sequester the key
enzymes for carbon fixation in cyanobacteria and some proteobacteria. They consist of a …