Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

A homologue of the Parkinson’s disease-associated protein LRRK2 undergoes a monomer-dimer transition during GTP turnover

  • Egon Deyaert,
  • Lina Wauters,
  • Giambattista Guaitoli,
  • Albert Konijnenberg,
  • Margaux Leemans,
  • Susanne Terheyden,
  • Arsen Petrovic,
  • Rodrigo Gallardo,
  • Laura M. Nederveen-Schippers,
  • Panagiotis S. Athanasopoulos,
  • Henderikus Pots,
  • Peter J. M. Van Haastert,
  • Frank Sobott,
  • Christian Johannes Gloeckner,
  • Rouslan Efremov,
  • Arjan Kortholt,
  • Wim Versées

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01103-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The Parkinson’s disease‐associated LRRK2 protein is a multidomain Roco protein with GTPase activity. Here the authors use a multidisciplinary approach to characterize the GTPase mechanism of a homologous bacterial Roco protein and give mechanistic insights into disease-causing LRRK2 mutations.