Journal: EMBO J / Year: 2026 Title: Prothrombinase processivity is conferred by substrate allostery. Authors: Fatma Işık Üstok / Alexandre Faille / Alan J Warren / James A Huntington / Abstract: The prothrombinase complex, comprised of factor (f) Xa and fVa, converts prothrombin to thrombin through sequential cleavage at two sites in a rapid and processive manner. The molecular basis of ...The prothrombinase complex, comprised of factor (f) Xa and fVa, converts prothrombin to thrombin through sequential cleavage at two sites in a rapid and processive manner. The molecular basis of prothrombin processing is an enzymatical mystery that to solve requires structural insight into how the substrate and intermediate bind to prothrombinase. Here we present two 3.1 Å cryo-EM structures of prothrombinase bound to prothrombin and to meizothrombin. The prothrombin complex revealed a surprising interaction between the end of the heavy chain of fVa with exosite I of prothrombin, accounting for 70% of the contact interface. Triggering of the zymogen-to-protease conformational change following cleavage at Arg320 alters all domain-domain and fVa interactions observed for prothrombin, and results in a large-scale rearrangement of meizothrombin that presents the second cleavage site (Arg271) for processing. Together, these structures reveal a remarkable enzymatic mechanism that requires the active participation of the substrate itself, and introduces a new paradigm of 'substrate allostery'.
Protocol: SINGLE WAVELENGTH / Monochromatic (M) / Laue (L): M / Scattering type: x-ray
Radiation wavelength
Wavelength: 0.7838 Å / Relative weight: 1
Reflection
Resolution: 2.8→38.76 Å / Num. obs: 15006 / % possible obs: 99.2 % / Redundancy: 3.7 % / CC1/2: 0.95 / Rmerge(I) obs: 0.244 / Net I/σ(I): 3
Reflection shell
Resolution: 2.8→2.95 Å / Redundancy: 3.4 % / Rmerge(I) obs: 1.032 / Mean I/σ(I) obs: 0.7 / Num. unique obs: 2190 / CC1/2: 0.432 / % possible all: 98.9
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Processing
Software
Name
Version
Classification
REFMAC
5.8.0431
refinement
xia2
datareduction
Aimless
datascaling
PHASER
phasing
Refinement
Method to determine structure: MOLECULAR REPLACEMENT / Resolution: 2.8→38.76 Å / Cor.coef. Fo:Fc: 0.899 / Cor.coef. Fo:Fc free: 0.844 / SU B: 40.859 / SU ML: 0.681 / Cross valid method: THROUGHOUT / ESU R Free: 0.521 Details: Hydrogens have been added in their riding positions
Rfactor
Num. reflection
% reflection
Selection details
Rfree
0.3045
719
4.8 %
RANDOM
Rwork
0.2587
14261
-
-
all
0.261
-
-
-
obs
-
14980
99.074 %
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Solvent computation
Ion probe radii: 0.8 Å / Shrinkage radii: 0.8 Å / VDW probe radii: 1.2 Å / Solvent model: MASK BULK SOLVENT
Displacement parameters
Biso mean: 47.074 Å2
Baniso -1
Baniso -2
Baniso -3
1-
-3.825 Å2
2.451 Å2
-0.426 Å2
2-
-
-1.163 Å2
-2.27 Å2
3-
-
-
6.939 Å2
Refinement step
Cycle: LAST / Resolution: 2.8→38.76 Å
Protein
Nucleic acid
Ligand
Solvent
Total
Num. atoms
5114
0
0
11
5125
Refine LS restraints
Refine-ID
Type
Dev ideal
Dev ideal target
Number
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_bond_refined_d
0.001
0.012
5244
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_bond_other_d
0
0.016
4854
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_angle_refined_deg
0.785
1.828
7102
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_angle_other_deg
0.266
1.782
11159
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_dihedral_angle_1_deg
6.001
5
631
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_dihedral_angle_2_deg
5.187
5
48
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_dihedral_angle_3_deg
14.18
10
878
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_dihedral_angle_6_deg
9.479
10
249
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_chiral_restr
0.05
0.2
738
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_gen_planes_refined
0.002
0.02
6295
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_gen_planes_other
0
0.02
1281
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_nbd_refined
0.228
0.2
1173
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_symmetry_nbd_other
0.24
0.2
5123
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_nbtor_refined
0.187
0.2
2562
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_symmetry_nbtor_other
0.082
0.2
2637
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_xyhbond_nbd_refined
0.251
0.2
155
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_symmetry_xyhbond_nbd_other
0.007
0.2
1
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_symmetry_nbd_refined
0.255
0.2
10
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_nbd_other
0.262
0.2
50
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_symmetry_xyhbond_nbd_refined
0.214
0.2
5
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_mcbond_it
1.295
4.866
2542
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_mcbond_other
1.295
4.866
2542
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_mcangle_it
2.387
8.723
3167
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_mcangle_other
2.387
8.724
3168
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_scbond_it
0.85
4.844
2702
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_scbond_other
0.85
4.845
2703
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_scangle_it
1.64
8.899
3935
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_scangle_other
1.64
8.899
3936
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_lrange_it
4.517
46.234
5961
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_lrange_other
4.517
46.235
5962
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_ncsr_local_group_1
0.114
0.05
9403
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
r_ncsr_local_group_2
0.138
0.05
468
Refine LS restraints NCS
Ens-ID
Dom-ID
Auth asym-ID
Refine-ID
Type
Rms dev position (Å)
Weight position
1
1
A
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Localncs
0.11421
0.05009
1
2
C
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Localncs
0.11421
0.05009
2
3
B
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Localncs
0.1384
0.05006
2
4
D
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Localncs
0.1384
0.05006
LS refinement shell
Resolution (Å)
Rfactor Rfree
Num. reflection Rfree
Rfactor Rwork
Num. reflection Rwork
Refine-ID
% reflection obs (%)
2.8-2.872
0.392
50
0.414
1083
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
98.3507
2.872-2.951
0.434
43
0.403
996
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
98.8582
2.951-3.036
0.367
47
0.381
1007
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
98.5047
3.036-3.128
0.372
41
0.36
953
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
98.8072
3.128-3.23
0.424
42
0.344
944
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
98.5015
3.23-3.343
0.335
51
0.341
896
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.2663
3.343-3.468
0.408
49
0.292
886
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.1516
3.468-3.609
0.34
40
0.273
823
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.1954
3.609-3.768
0.317
55
0.272
791
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.2958
3.768-3.95
0.293
36
0.244
809
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.4118
3.95-4.161
0.257
36
0.216
717
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.3404
4.161-4.41
0.23
31
0.185
718
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.3369
4.41-4.71
0.263
41
0.183
665
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.5769
4.71-5.081
0.251
29
0.168
598
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.5238
5.081-5.557
0.233
14
0.188
577
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.3277
5.557-6.197
0.307
45
0.245
486
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.6248
6.197-7.125
0.317
24
0.235
446
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.5763
7.125-8.654
0.196
18
0.21
397
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
99.5204
8.654-11.945
0.21
18
0.17
285
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
100
11.945-38.76
0.216
9
0.295
184
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
98.9744
+
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