Born to sense: biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens
<p><strong>Background:</strong> In humans and other animals, the chronic hypoxic response is mediated by hypoxia inducible transcription factors (HIFs) which regulate the expression of genes that counteract the effects of limiting oxygen. Prolyl hydroxylases (PHDs) act as hypoxia s...
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2018
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| author | Lippl, K Boleininger, A McDonough, M Abboud, M Tarhonskaya, H Chowdhury, R Loenarz, C Schofield, C |
| author_facet | Lippl, K Boleininger, A McDonough, M Abboud, M Tarhonskaya, H Chowdhury, R Loenarz, C Schofield, C |
| author_sort | Lippl, K |
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| description | <p><strong>Background:</strong> In humans and other animals, the chronic hypoxic response is mediated by hypoxia inducible transcription factors (HIFs) which regulate the expression of genes that counteract the effects of limiting oxygen. Prolyl hydroxylases (PHDs) act as hypoxia sensors for the HIF system in organisms ranging from humans to the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> We report structural and biochemical studies on the T. adhaerens HIF prolyl hydroxylase (TaPHD) that inform about the evolution of hypoxia sensing in animals.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> High resolution crystal structures (≤1.3 Å) of TaPHD, with and without its HIFα substrate, reveal remarkable conservation of key active site elements between T. adhaerens and human PHDs, which also manifest in kinetic comparisons.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Conserved structural features of TaPHD and human PHDs include those apparently enabling the slow binding/reaction of oxygen with the active site Fe(II), the formation of a stable 2-oxoglutarate complex, and a stereoelectronically promoted change in conformation of the hydroxylated proline-residue. Comparison of substrate selectivity between the human PHDs and TaPHD provides insights into the selectivity determinants of HIF binding by the PHDs, and into the evolution of the multiple HIFs and PHDs present in higher animals.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:897158b3-6c1e-4c70-aef4-a1deb6b38df12022-03-26T22:24:34ZBorn to sense: biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerensJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:897158b3-6c1e-4c70-aef4-a1deb6b38df1Symplectic Elements at OxfordDove Medical Press2018Lippl, KBoleininger, AMcDonough, MAbboud, MTarhonskaya, HChowdhury, RLoenarz, CSchofield, C<p><strong>Background:</strong> In humans and other animals, the chronic hypoxic response is mediated by hypoxia inducible transcription factors (HIFs) which regulate the expression of genes that counteract the effects of limiting oxygen. Prolyl hydroxylases (PHDs) act as hypoxia sensors for the HIF system in organisms ranging from humans to the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> We report structural and biochemical studies on the T. adhaerens HIF prolyl hydroxylase (TaPHD) that inform about the evolution of hypoxia sensing in animals.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> High resolution crystal structures (≤1.3 Å) of TaPHD, with and without its HIFα substrate, reveal remarkable conservation of key active site elements between T. adhaerens and human PHDs, which also manifest in kinetic comparisons.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Conserved structural features of TaPHD and human PHDs include those apparently enabling the slow binding/reaction of oxygen with the active site Fe(II), the formation of a stable 2-oxoglutarate complex, and a stereoelectronically promoted change in conformation of the hydroxylated proline-residue. Comparison of substrate selectivity between the human PHDs and TaPHD provides insights into the selectivity determinants of HIF binding by the PHDs, and into the evolution of the multiple HIFs and PHDs present in higher animals.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Lippl, K Boleininger, A McDonough, M Abboud, M Tarhonskaya, H Chowdhury, R Loenarz, C Schofield, C Born to sense: biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens |
| title | Born to sense: biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens |
| title_full | Born to sense: biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens |
| title_fullStr | Born to sense: biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens |
| title_full_unstemmed | Born to sense: biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens |
| title_short | Born to sense: biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal Trichoplax adhaerens |
| title_sort | born to sense biophysical analyses of the oxygen sensing prolyl hydroxylase from the simplest animal trichoplax adhaerens |
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