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Substrate-Assisted Catalysis by PARP10 Limits Its Activity to Mono-ADP-Ribosylation

2008; Elsevier BV; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.molcel.2008.08.009

ISSN

1097-4164

Autores

H. O. Kleine, Elżbieta Poręba, Krzysztof Leśniewicz, Paul O. Hassa, Michael O. Hottiger, David W. Litchfield, Brian H. Shilton, Bernhard Lüscher,

Tópico(s)

Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis

Resumo

ADP-ribosylation controls many processes, including transcription, DNA repair, and bacterial toxicity. ADP-ribosyltransferases and poly-ADP-ribose polymerases (PARPs) catalyze mono- and poly-ADP-ribosylation, respectively, and depend on a highly conserved glutamate residue in the active center for catalysis. However, there is an apparent absence of this glutamate for the recently described PARP6-PARP16, raising questions about how these enzymes function. We find that PARP10, in contrast to PARP1, lacks the catalytic glutamate and has transferase rather than polymerase activity. Despite this fundamental difference, PARP10 also modifies acidic residues. Consequently, we propose an alternative catalytic mechanism for PARP10 compared to PARP1 in which the acidic target residue of the substrate functionally substitutes for the catalytic glutamate by using substrate-assisted catalysis to transfer ADP-ribose. This mechanism explains why the novel PARPs are unable to function as polymerases. This discovery will help to illuminate the different biological functions of mono- versus poly-ADP-ribosylation in cells.

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