Structures of DPAGT1 explain glycosylation disease mechanisms and advance TB antibiotic design
By
Yin Yao Dong,
Hua Wang,
Ashley CW Pike,
Stephen A. Cochrane,
Sadra Hamedzadeh,
Filip J. WyszyĆski,
Simon R Bushell,
Sylvain F Royer,
David A. Widdick,
Andaleeb Sajid,
Helena I Boshoff,
Ricardo Lucas,
Wei-Min Liu,
Seung Seo Lee,
Takuya Machida,
Shahid Mehmood,
Katsiaryna Belaya,
Wei-Wei Liu,
Amy Chu,
Leela Shrestha,
Shubhashish M.M. Mukhopadhyay,
Nicola A Burgess-Brown,
Mervyn J Bibb,
Clifton E Barry,
Carol V Robinson,
David Beeson,
Benjamin G. Davis,
Elisabeth P Carpenter
Posted 02 Apr 2018
bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/291278
(published DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.037)
Protein glycosylation is a widespread post-translational modification. The first committed step to the lipid-linked glycan used for this process is catalysed by dolichyl-phosphate N-acetylglucosamine-phosphotransferase DPAGT1 (GPT/E.C. 2.7.8.15). Missense DPAGT1 variants cause congenital myasthenic syndrome and congenital disorders of glycosylation. In addition, naturally-occurring bactericidal nucleoside analogues such as tunicamycin are toxic to eukaryotes due to DPAGT1 inhibition, preventing their clinical use as antibiotics. However, little is known about the mechanism or the effects of disease-associated mutations in this essential enzyme. Our structures of DPAGT1 with the substrate UDP-GlcNAc and tunicamycin reveal substrate binding modes, suggest a mechanism of catalysis, provide an understanding of how mutations modulate activity (and thus cause disease) and allow design of non-toxic lipid-altered tunicamycins. The structure-tuned activity of these analogues against several bacterial targets allowed design of potent antibiotics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, enabling treatment in vitro, in cellulo and in vivo thereby providing a promising new class of antimicrobial drug.
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