The middle lipin domain adopts a membrane-binding dimeric protein fold.

Publication Type:

Journal Article

Source:

Nat Commun, Volume 12, Issue 1, p.4718 (2021)

Keywords:

3T3-L1 Cells, Adipogenesis, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Cell Membrane, Conserved Sequence, Crystallography, X-Ray, HEK293 Cells, Humans, Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange-Mass Spectrometry, Membrane Proteins, Mice, Models, Molecular, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Phosphatidate Phosphatase, Protein Binding, Protein Domains, Protein Folding, Protein Multimerization, Recombinant Proteins, Sequence Deletion, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Transcription, Genetic

Abstract:

<p>Phospholipid synthesis and fat storage as triglycerides are regulated by lipin phosphatidic acid phosphatases (PAPs), whose enzymatic PAP function requires association with cellular membranes. Using hydrogen deuterium exchange mass spectrometry, we find mouse lipin 1 binds membranes through an N-terminal amphipathic helix, the Ig-like domain and HAD phosphatase catalytic core, and a middle lipin (M-Lip) domain that is conserved in mammalian and mammalian-like lipins. Crystal structures of the M-Lip domain reveal a previously unrecognized protein fold that dimerizes. The isolated M-Lip domain binds membranes both in vitro and in cells through conserved basic and hydrophobic residues. Deletion of the M-Lip domain in lipin 1 reduces PAP activity, membrane association, and oligomerization, alters subcellular localization, diminishes acceleration of adipocyte differentiation, but does not affect transcriptional co-activation. This establishes the M-Lip domain as a dimeric protein fold that binds membranes and is critical for full functionality of mammalian lipins.</p>

PDB: 
7KIH
Detector: 
Q315
Beamline: 
24-ID-C