The PH Domain in the ArfGAP ASAP1 Drives Catalytic Activation Through an Unprecedented Allosteric Mechanism

Overview

Journal bioRxiv

Date 2025 Jan 7

PMID 39763923

Authors

Olivier Soubias

Samuel L Foley

Xiaoying Jian

Rebekah A Jackson

Yue Zhang

Eric M Rosenberg Jr

Eric M Rosenberg

Jess Li

Frank Heinrich

Margaret E Johnson

Alexander J Sodt

Paul A Randazzo

R Andrew Byrd

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Abstract

ASAP1 is a multidomain Arf GTPase-activating protein (ArfGAP) that catalyzes GTP hydrolysis on the small GTPase Arf1 and is implicated in cancer progression. The PH domain of ASAP1 enhances its activity greater than 7 orders of magnitude but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we combined Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Molecular Dynamic (MD) simulations and mathematical modeling of functional data to build a comprehensive structural-mechanistic model of the complex of Arf1 and the ASAP1 PH domain on a membrane surface. Our results support a new conceptual model in which the PH domain contributes to efficient catalysis not only by membrane recruitment but by acting as a critical component of the catalytic interface, binding Arf·GTP and allosterically driving it towards the catalytic transition state. We discuss the biological implications of these results and how they may apply more broadly to poorly understood membrane-dependent regulatory mechanisms controlling catalysis of the ArfGAP superfamily as well as other peripheral membrane enzymes.

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