6n55

Crystal structure of human uridine-cytidine kinase 2 complexed with 2'-azidouridine

spinqualitylabelsall models 6n55, resolution 3.08Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 6n55 is a 8 chain structure with sequence from Homo sapiens. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 3.085Å Ligands: GOL, PO4, UZ0 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function UCK2_HUMAN Phosphorylates uridine and cytidine to uridine monophosphate and cytidine monophosphate. Does not phosphorylate deoxyribonucleosides or purine ribonucleosides. Can use ATP or GTP as a phosphate donor. Can also phosphorylate cytidine and uridine nucleoside analogs such as 6-azauridine, 5-fluorouridine, 4-thiouridine, 5-bromouridine, N(4)-acetylcytidine, N(4)-benzoylcytidine, 5-fluorocytidine, 2-thiocytidine, 5-methylcytidine, and N(4)-anisoylcytidine. Publication Abstract from PubMed Tissues and organs are composed of diverse cell types, which poses a major challenge for cell-type-specific profiling of gene expression. Current metabolic labeling methods rely on exogenous pyrimidine analogs that are only incorporated into RNA in cells expressing an exogenous enzyme. This approach assumes that off-target cells cannot incorporate these analogs. We disprove this assumption and identify and characterize the enzymatic pathways responsible for high background incorporation. We demonstrate that mammalian cells can incorporate uracil analogs and characterize the enzymatic pathways responsible for high background incorporation. To overcome these limitations, we developed a new small molecule-enzyme pair consisting of uridine/cytidine kinase 2 and 2'-azidouridine. We demonstrate that 2'-azidouridine is only incorporated in cells expressing uridine/cytidine kinase 2 and characterize selectivity mechanisms using molecular dynamics and X-ray crystallography. Furthermore, this pair can be used to purify and track RNA from specific cellular populations, making it ideal for high-resolution cell-specific RNA labeling. Overall, these results reveal new aspects of mammalian salvage pathways and serve as a new benchmark for designing, characterizing and evaluating methodologies for cell-specific labeling of biomolecules. An optimized chemical-genetic method for cell-specific metabolic labeling of RNA.,Nainar S, Cuthbert BJ, Lim NM, England WE, Ke K, Sophal K, Quechol R, Mobley DL, Goulding CW, Spitale RC Nat Methods. 2020 Feb 3. pii: 10.1038/s41592-019-0726-y. doi:, 10.1038/s41592-019-0726-y. PMID:32015544 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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