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| タイトル | Evolutionarily divergent Mycobacterium tuberculosis CTP synthase filaments are under selective pressure. |
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| ジャーナル・号・ページ | Nat Commun, Vol. 16, Issue 1, Page 5993, Year 2025 |
| 掲載日 | 2025年7月1日 |
著者 | Eric M Lynch / Yao Lu / Jin Ho Park / Lin Shao / Justin M Kollman / E Hesper Rego / ![]() |
| PubMed 要旨 | The final and rate-limiting enzyme in pyrimidine biosynthesis, cytidine triphosphate synthase (CTPS), is essential for the viability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacteria. Its product, ...The final and rate-limiting enzyme in pyrimidine biosynthesis, cytidine triphosphate synthase (CTPS), is essential for the viability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other mycobacteria. Its product, cytidine triphosphate (CTP), is critical for RNA, DNA, lipid and cell wall synthesis, and is involved in chromosome segregation. In various organisms across the tree of life, CTPS assembles into higher-order filaments, leading us to hypothesize that M. tuberculosis CTPS (mtCTPS) also forms higher-order structures. Here, we show that mtCTPS does assemble into filaments but with an unusual architecture not seen in other organisms. Through a combination of structural, biochemical, and cellular techniques, we show that polymerization stabilizes the active conformation of the enzyme and resists product inhibition, potentially allowing for the highly localized production of CTP within the cell. Indeed, CTPS filaments localize near the CTP-dependent complex needed for chromosome segregation, and cells expressing mutant enzymes unable to polymerize are altered in their ability to robustly form this complex. Intriguingly, mutants that inhibit filament formation are under positive selection in clinical isolates of M. tuberculosis, pointing to a critical role needed to withstand pressures imposed by the host and/or antibiotics. Taken together, our data reveal an unexpected mechanism for the spatially organized production of a critical nucleotide in M. tuberculosis, which may represent a vulnerability of the pathogen that can be exploited with chemotherapy. |
リンク | Nat Commun / PubMed:40593557 / PubMed Central |
| 手法 | EM (単粒子) |
| 解像度 | 2.8 - 3.6 Å |
| 構造データ | EMDB-42605, PDB-8uv4: EMDB-42611, PDB-8uv8: EMDB-42612, PDB-8uv9: EMDB-42613, PDB-8uva: |
| 化合物 | ![]() ChemComp-ADP: ![]() ChemComp-5ZL: ![]() ChemComp-MG: ![]() ChemComp-CTP: ![]() ChemComp-GLN: ![]() ChemComp-Q2N: ![]() ChemComp-UTP: ![]()
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キーワード | LIGASE / metabolic enzyme / filament |
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