Phosphoribosyltransferases and their roles in plant development and abiotic stress response

Y Liu, P Wu, B Li, W Wang, B Zhu - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Glycosylation is a widespread glycosyl modification that regulates gene expression and
metabolite bioactivity in all life processes of plants. Phosphoribosylation is a special glycosyl …

Structure, mechanism and inhibition of anthranilate phosphoribosyltransferase

TW Scully, W Jiao, G Mittelstädt… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthranilate phosphoribosyltransferase catalyses the second reaction in the biosynthesis of
tryptophan from chorismate in microorganisms and plants. The enzyme is homodimeric with …

Crystal Structure, Steady-State, and Pre-Steady-State Kinetics of Acinetobacter baumannii ATP Phosphoribosyltransferase

BJ Read, AF Cadzow, MS Alphey, JBO Mitchell… - Biochemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
The first step of histidine biosynthesis in Acinetobacter baumannii, the condensation of ATP
and 5-phospho-α-d-ribosyl-1-pyrophosphate to produce N 1-(5-phospho-β-d-ribosyl)-ATP …

Host-Induced Gene Silencing of an Adenylate Kinase Gene Involved in Fungal Energy Metabolism Improves Plant Resistance to Verticillium dahliae

X Su, G Lu, X Li, L Rehman, W Liu, G Sun, H Guo… - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Verticillium wilt, caused by the ascomycete fungus Verticillium dahliae (Vd), is a devastating
disease of numerous plant species. However, the pathogenicity/virulence-related genes in …

Allosteric activation unveils protein-mass modulation of ATP phosphoribosyltransferase product release

BJ Read, JBO Mitchell, RG da Silva - Communications Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Heavy-isotope substitution into enzymes slows down bond vibrations and may alter
transition-state barrier crossing probability if this is coupled to fast protein motions. ATP …

Allosteric Inhibition of Acinetobacter baumannii ATP Phosphoribosyltransferase by Protein:Dipeptide and Protein:Protein Interactions

BJ Read, G Fisher, OLR Wissett… - ACS Infectious …, 2021 - ACS Publications
ATP phosphoribosyltransferase (ATPPRT) catalyzes the first step of histidine biosynthesis in
bacteria, namely, the condensation of ATP and 5-phospho-α-d-ribosyl-1-pyrophosphate …

Allosteric activation shifts the rate-limiting step in a short-form ATP phosphoribosyltransferase

G Fisher, CM Thomson, R Stroek, CM Czekster… - Biochemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Short-form ATP phosphoribosyltransferase (ATPPRT) is a hetero-octameric allosteric
enzyme comprising four catalytic subunits (HisGS) and four regulatory subunits (HisZ) …

Catalytic and anticatalytic snapshots of a short-form ATP phosphoribosyltransferase

MS Alphey, G Fisher, Y Ge, ER Gould… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Allosteric modulation of catalysis is a common regulatory strategy of flux-controlling
biosynthetic enzymes. The enzyme ATP phosphoribosyltransferase (ATPPRT) catalyzes the …

Mapping the structural path for allosteric inhibition of a short-form ATP phosphoribosyltransferase by histidine

CM Thomson, MS Alphey, G Fisher, RG da Silva - Biochemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
ATP phosphoribosyltransferase (ATPPRT) catalyzes the first step of histidine biosynthesis,
being allosterically inhibited by the final product of the pathway. Allosteric inhibition of long …

Conformational interdomain flexibility in a bacterial α-isopropylmalate synthase is necessary for leucine biosynthesis

Y Bai, W Jiao, J Vörster, EJ Parker - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023 - ASBMB
α-Isopropylmalate synthase (IPMS) catalyzes the first step in leucine (Leu) biosynthesis and
is allosterically regulated by the pathway end product, Leu. IPMS is a dimeric enzyme with …