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A complete allosteric map of a GTPase switch in its native cellular network

Mathy, Christopher J P
Mishra, Parul
Flynn, Julia M
Perica, Tina
Mavor, David
Bolon, Daniel N A
Kortemme, Tanja
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Allosteric regulation is central to protein function in cellular networks. A fundamental open question is whether cellular regulation of allosteric proteins occurs only at a few defined positions or at many sites distributed throughout the structure. Here, we probe the regulation of GTPases-protein switches that control signaling through regulated conformational cycling-at residue-level resolution by deep mutagenesis in the native biological network. For the GTPase Gsp1/Ran, we find that 28% of the 4,315 assayed mutations show pronounced gain-of-function responses. Twenty of the sixty positions enriched for gain-of-function mutations are outside the canonical GTPase active site switch regions. Kinetic analysis shows that these distal sites are allosterically coupled to the active site. We conclude that the GTPase switch mechanism is broadly sensitive to cellular allosteric regulation. Our systematic discovery of new regulatory sites provides a functional map to interrogate and target GTPases controlling many essential biological processes.

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Mathy CJP, Mishra P, Flynn JM, Perica T, Mavor D, Bolon DNA, Kortemme T. A complete allosteric map of a GTPase switch in its native cellular network. Cell Syst. 2023 Mar 15;14(3):237-246.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cels.2023.01.003. Epub 2023 Feb 17. PMID: 36801015; PMCID: PMC10173951.

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10.1016/j.cels.2023.01.003
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36801015
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This article is based on a previously available preprint in bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.13.488230.

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Copyright 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).; Attribution 4.0 International