Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

A Ca2+-regulated deAMPylation switch in human and bacterial FIC proteins

  • Simon Veyron,
  • Giulia Oliva,
  • Monica Rolando,
  • Carmen Buchrieser,
  • Gérald Peyroche,
  • Jacqueline Cherfils

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09023-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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In many AMPylating FIC proteins a structurally conserved glutamate represses AMPylation. Here, the authors show that this glutamate supports deAMPylation in Enterococcus faecalis FIC (EfFIC), and that EfFIC switches from AMPylation to deAMPylation by binding Ca2+ at distinct sites.