Structural and Supramolecular Chemistry Laboratory, Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, Aghia Paraskevi 15310, Athens, Greece.
Biochemistry. 2012 Jan 10;51(1):286-95. doi: 10.1021/bi201230p. Epub 2011 Dec 9.
Endoplasmic reticulum aminopeptidases ERAP1 and ERAP2 cooperate to trim a vast variety of antigenic peptide precursors to generate mature epitopes for binding to major histocompatibility class I molecules. We report here the first structure of ERAP2 determined at 3.08 Å by X-ray crystallography. On the basis of residual electron density, a lysine residue has been modeled in the active site of the enzyme; thus, the structure corresponds to an enzyme-product complex. The overall domain organization is highly similar to that of the recently determined structure of ERAP1 in its closed conformation. A large internal cavity adjacent to the catalytic site can accommodate large peptide substrates. The ERAP2 structure provides a structural explanation for the different peptide N-terminal specificities between ERAP1 and ERAP2 and suggests that such differences extend throughout the whole peptide sequence. A noncrystallographic dimer observed may constitute a model for a proposed ERAP1-ERAP2 heterodimer. Overall, the structure helps explain how two homologous aminopeptidases cooperate to process a large variety of sequences, a key property of their biological role.
内质网氨肽酶 ERAP1 和 ERAP2 合作将大量抗原肽前体修剪为成熟的表位,用于与主要组织相容性复合体 I 分子结合。我们在此报告了通过 X 射线晶体学确定的 ERAP2 的第一个结构,分辨率为 3.08Å。基于剩余电子密度,在酶的活性位点中模拟了一个赖氨酸残基;因此,该结构对应于酶-产物复合物。整体结构域组织与最近确定的封闭构象下的 ERAP1 结构高度相似。与催化位点相邻的一个大内部空腔可以容纳大的肽底物。ERAP2 结构为 ERAP1 和 ERAP2 之间不同的肽 N 末端特异性提供了结构解释,并表明这种差异贯穿整个肽序列。观察到的非晶体学二聚体可能构成所提出的 ERAP1-ERAP2 异二聚体的模型。总体而言,该结构有助于解释两种同源氨肽酶如何合作处理各种序列,这是其生物学作用的关键特性。