Activity and substrate specificity of Candida, Aspergillus, and Coccidioides Tpt1: essential tRNA splicing enzymes and potential anti-fungal targets.
Activity and substrate specificity of Candida, Aspergillus, and Coccidioides Tpt1: essential tRNA splicing enzymes and potential anti-fungal targets.
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10.1261/rna.078660.120
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2021-01-28
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Shuman S
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Dantuluri S;Schwer B;Abdullahu L;Damha MJ;Shuman S
The enzyme Tpt1 is an essential agent of fungal tRNA splicing that removes an internal RNA 2′-PO4 generated by fungal tRNA ligase. Tpt1 performs a two-step reaction in which: (i) the 2′-PO4 attacks NAD+ to form an RNA-2′-phospho-(ADP-ribose) intermediate; and (ii) transesterification of the ADP-ribose O2″ to the RNA 2′-phosphodiester yields 2′-OH RNA and ADP-ribose-1″,2″-cyclic phosphate. Because Tpt1 does not participate in metazoan tRNA splicing, and Tpt1 knockout has no apparent impact on mammalian physiology, Tpt1 is considered a potential antifungal drug target. Here we characterize Tpt1 enzymes from four human fungal pathogens: Coccidioides immitis, the agent of Valley Fever; Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida albicans, which cause invasive, often fatal, infections in immunocompromised hosts; and Candida auris, an emerging pathogen that is resistant to current therapies. All four pathogen Tpt1s were active in vivo in complementing a lethal Saccharomyces cerevisiae tpt1Δ mutation and in vitro in NAD+-dependent conversion of a 2′-PO4 to a 2′-OH. The fungal Tpt1s utilized nicotinamide hypoxanthine dinucleotide as a substrate in lieu of NAD+, albeit with much lower affinity, whereas nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide was ineffective. Fungal Tpt1s efficiently removed an internal ribonucleotide 2′-phosphate from an otherwise all-DNA substrate. Replacement of an RNA ribose-2′-PO4 nucleotide with arabinose-2′-PO4 diminished enzyme specific activity by ≥2000-fold and selectively slowed step 2 of the reaction pathway, resulting in transient accumulation of an ara-2′-phospho-ADP-ribosylated intermediate. Our results implicate the 2′-PO4 ribonucleotide as the principal determinant of fungal Tpt1 nucleic acid substrate specificity.
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