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| Title | Structural basis of phosphodiesterase-5 conformational organization revealed by a PDE6/PDE5 Chimera. |
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| Journal, issue, pages | J Biol Chem, Page 111467, Year 2026 |
| Publish date | Apr 17, 2026 |
Authors | Dhiraj Srivastava / Sneha Singh / Chris Yu / Kimberly Boyd / Nikolai O Artemyev / ![]() |
| PubMed Abstract | Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) plays critical role in the nitric oxide-cGMP signaling pathway. Consequently, PDE5 catalytic site inhibitors are widely used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction and ...Phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) plays critical role in the nitric oxide-cGMP signaling pathway. Consequently, PDE5 catalytic site inhibitors are widely used in the treatment of erectile dysfunction and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Despite a wealth of structural data on the individual PDE5 catalytic domain with bound drug molecules, understanding of the structural organization of the full-length enzyme and its allosteric activation by noncatalytic cGMP-binding is lacking. To begin to understand the structural organization of PDE5, we solved a cryo-EM structure of a chimeric PDE enzyme (PDE6C/5) comprised of the regulatory domains of cone PDE6C and the PDE5 catalytic domain. The PDE6C/5 structure revealed the protein in the open state conformation similar to that of PDE6, suggesting a comparable conformation for the cGMP-bound PDE5 molecule. The H- and M-loops outlying the catalytic pocket, which are conformationally variable in the structures of isolated PDE5 catalytic domain, are immobilized in the PDE6/5 chimera via the interaction of the H-loop with a linker helix LH2. Decreased dynamics of these loops may underlie the higher catalytic activities of the full-length PDE5 and PDE6C/5 compared to that of the isolated PDE5 catalytic domain. Furthermore, the PDE6C/5 structure defines the folding requirement of the PDE6 catalytic domain for chaperone-dependent maturation that is important for vision. |
External links | J Biol Chem / PubMed:42001945 |
| Methods | EM (single particle) |
| Resolution | 3.06 Å |
| Structure data | EMDB-75366, PDB-10oz: |
| Chemicals | ![]() ChemComp-VIA: ![]() ChemComp-PCG: ![]() ChemComp-MG: ![]() ChemComp-ZN: |
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Keywords | HYDROLASE / Phosphodiesterase |
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