Severe deficiency and response to s-adenosylmethionine and nicotinamide riboside supplementation
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism(2023)
摘要
Human WASP and N-WASP are homologous proteins that require the binding of multiple regulators, including the acidic lipid PIP2 and the small GTPase Cdc42, to relieve autoinhibition before they can stimulate the initiation of actin polymerization. Autoinhibition involves intramolecular binding of the C-terminal acidic and central motifs to an upstream basic region and GTPase binding domain. Little is known about how a single intrinsically disordered protein, WASP or N-WASP, binds multiple regulators to achieve full activation. Here we used molecular dynamics simulations to characterize the binding of WASP and N-WASP with PIP2 and Cdc42. In the absence of Cdc42, both WASP and N-WASP strongly associate with PIP2-containing membranes, through their basic region and also possibly through a tail portion of the N-terminal WH1 domain. The basic region also participates in Cdc42 binding, especially for WASP; consequently Cdc42 binding significantly compromises the ability of the basic region in WASP, but not N-WASP, to bind PIP2. PIP2 binding to the WASP basic region is restored only when Cdc42 is prenylated at the C-terminus and tethered to the membrane. This distinction in the activation of WASP and N-WASP may contribute to their different functional roles.
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supplementation,nicotinamide,s-adenosylmethionine
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