Structural insight into the function of human peptidyl arginine deiminase 6

0301 basic medicine 570 0303 health sciences Peptidyl arginine deiminase Biochemistry & Proteomics X-Ray crystallography Infertility Citrullination Protein folding Protein mutation damage prediction TP248.13-248.65 Biotechnology Research Article Structural Biology & Biophysics
DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2024.08.019 Publication Date: 2024-08-16T23:37:16Z
ABSTRACT
AbstractPeptidyl arginine deiminase 6 (PADI6) is vital for early embryonic development in mice and humans, yet its function remains elusive. PADI6 is less conserved than other PADIs and it is currently unknown whether it has a catalytic function. Here we have shown that human PADI6 dimerises like hPADIs 2-4, however, does not bind Ca2+and is inactive inin vitroassays against standard PADI substrates. By determining the crystal structure of hPADI6, we show that hPADI6 is structured in the absence of Ca2+where hPADI2 and hPADI4 are not, and the Ca-binding sites are not conserved. Moreover, we show that whilst the key catalytic aspartic acid and histidine residues are structurally conserved, the cysteine is displaced far from the active site centre and the hPADI6 active site pocket appears closed through a unique evolved mechanism in hPADI6, not present in the other PADIs. Taken together, these findings provide insight into how the function of hPADI6 may differ from the other PADIs based on its structure and provides a resource for characterising the damaging effect of clinically significantPADI6variants.
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