PUBLICATION

Structure Based Substrate Specificity Analysis of Heparan Sulfate 6-O-Sulfotransferases

Authors
Xu, Y., Moon, A.F., Xu, S., Krahn, J.M., Liu, J., Pedersen, L.C.
ID
ZDB-PUB-170223-8
Date
2017
Source
ACS Chemical Biology   12: 73-82 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Keywords
none
MeSH Terms
  • Zebrafish Proteins/chemistry
  • Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Animals
  • Sulfotransferases/chemistry
  • Sulfotransferases/metabolism*
  • Adenosine Diphosphate/chemistry
  • Adenosine Diphosphate/metabolism*
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Oligosaccharides/chemistry
  • Oligosaccharides/metabolism*
  • Zebrafish/metabolism
  • Protein Isoforms/chemistry
  • Protein Isoforms/metabolism
  • Catalytic Domain
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular
  • Crystallography, X-Ray
  • Substrate Specificity
  • Protein Conformation
PubMed
28103688 Full text @ ACS Chem. Biol.
Abstract
Heparan sulfate (HS) is a sulfated polysaccharide exhibiting essential physiological functions. HS 6-O-sulfotransferase (6-OST) transfers a sulfo group to the 6-OH position of glucosamine units to confer a variety of HS biological activities. There are three different isoforms of 6-OST in the human genome. Here, we report crystal structures of the ternary complex of 6-OST with the sulfo donor analog 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate and three different oligosaccharide substrates at 1.95 to 2.1 Å resolutions. Structural and mutational analyses reveal amino acid residues that contribute to catalysis and substrate recognition of 6-OST. Unexpectedly, the structures reveal 6-OST engages HS in a completely different orientation than other HS sulfotransferases and sheds light on the basic HS requirements for specificity. These findings also contribute structural information to understand mutations in human 6-OST isoform 1 associated with the human genetic disease idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism characterized by incomplete or lack of puberty.
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Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Antibodies
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping