Advances in Biological Regulation 2013-01-01

Structural insight into inositol pyrophosphate turnover.

Stephen B Shears, Jeremy D Weaver, Huanchen Wang

Index: Adv. Biol. Regul. 53(1) , 19-27, (2013)

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Abstract

The diphosphoinositol polyphosphates ("inositol pyrophosphates"; PP-InsPs) regulate many cellular processes in eukaryotes, including stress responses, apoptosis, vesicle trafficking, cytoskeletal dynamics, exocytosis, telomere maintenance, insulin signaling and neutrophil activation. Thus, the enzymes that control the metabolism of the PP-InsPs serve important cell signaling roles. In order to fully characterize how these enzymes are regulated, we need to determine the atomic-level architecture of their active sites. Only then can we fully appreciate reaction mechanisms and their modes of regulation. In this review, we summarize published information obtained from the structural analysis of a human diphosphoinositol polyphosphate phosphohydrolase (DIPP), and a human diphosphoinositol polyphosphate kinase (PPIP5K). This work includes the analysis of crystal complexes with substrates, products, transition state analogs, and a novel phosphonoacetate substrate analog.Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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