PMID:11986331

Citation	Sigoillot, FD, Evans, DR and Guy, HI (2002) Autophosphorylation of the mammalian multifunctional protein that initiates de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis. J. Biol. Chem. 277:24809-17
Abstract	CAD, a large multifunctional protein that carries carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (CPSase), aspartate transcarbamoylase, and dihydroorotase activities, catalyzes the first three steps of de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis in mammalian cells. The CPSase component, which catalyzes the initial, rate-limiting step, exhibits complex regulatory mechanisms involving allosteric effectors and phosphorylation that control the flux of metabolites through the pathway. Incubation of CAD with ATP in the absence of exogenous kinases resulted in the incorporation of 1 mol of P(i)/mol of CAD monomer. Mass spectrometry analysis of tryptic digests showed that Thr(1037) located within the CAD CPS.B subdomain was specifically modified. The reaction is specific for MgATP, ADP was a competitive inhibitor, and the native tertiary structure of the protein was required. Phosphorylation occurred after denaturation, further purification of CAD by SDS gel electrophoresis, and renaturation on a nitrocellulose membrane, strongly suggesting that phosphate incorporation resulted from an intrinsic kinase activity and was not the result of contaminating kinases. Chemical modification with the ATP analog, 5'-p-fluorosulfonylbenzoyladenosine, showed that one or both of the active sites that catalyze the ATP-dependent partial reactions are also involved in autophosphorylation. The rate of phosphorylation was dependent on the concentration of CAD, indicating that the reaction was, at least in part, intermolecular. Autophosphorylation resulted in a 2-fold increase in CPSase activity, an increased sensitivity to the feedback inhibitor UTP, and decreased allosteric activation by 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate, functional changes that were distinctly different from those resulting from phosphorylation by either the protein kinase A or mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M203512200
Keywords	Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Aspartate Carbamoyltransferase/chemistry; Aspartate Carbamoyltransferase/metabolism; Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthase (Glutamine-Hydrolyzing)/chemistry; Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthase (Glutamine-Hydrolyzing)/metabolism; Cell Line; Cricetinae; Humans; Kinetics; Mammals; Mass Spectrometry; Models, Molecular; Molecular Sequence Data; Multienzyme Complexes/chemistry; Multienzyme Complexes/metabolism; Peptide Fragments/chemistry; Phosphorylation; Protein Conformation; Pyrimidines/biosynthesis; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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