Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Structural remodelling of the carbon–phosphorus lyase machinery by a dual ABC ATPase

  • Søren K. Amstrup,
  • Sui Ching Ong,
  • Nicholas Sofos,
  • Jesper L. Karlsen,
  • Ragnhild B. Skjerning,
  • Thomas Boesen,
  • Jan J. Enghild,
  • Bjarne Hove-Jensen,
  • Ditlev E. Brodersen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36604-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Here, authors analyse the structural organisation of the large carbon-phosphorus lyase enzyme from bacteria using electron microscopy and discover that it contains two ATP-binding cassette dimers of PhnK and PhnL and opens upon ATP hydrolysis.