The Structure of Metal Binding Domain 1 of the Copper Transporter ATP7B Reveals Mechanism of a Singular Wilson Disease Mutation

Sci Rep. 2018 Jan 12;8(1):581. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-18951-1.

Abstract

Copper-transporter ATP7B maintains copper homeostasis in the human cells and delivers copper to the biosynthetic pathways for incorporation into the newly synthesized copper-containing proteins. ATP7B is a target of several hundred mutations that lead to Wilson disease, a chronic copper toxicosis. ATP7B contains a chain of six cytosolic metal-binding domains (MBDs), the first four of which (MBD1-4) are believed to be regulatory, and the last two (MBD5-6) are required for enzyme activity. We report the NMR structure of MBD1, the last unsolved metal-binding domain of ATP7B. The structure reveals the disruptive mechanism of G85V mutation, one of the very few disease causing missense mutations in the MBD1-4 region of ATP7B.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Binding Sites
  • Copper / metabolism
  • Copper-Transporting ATPases / chemistry*
  • Copper-Transporting ATPases / genetics*
  • Copper-Transporting ATPases / metabolism
  • Hepatolenticular Degeneration / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular
  • Mutation, Missense*
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Domains

Substances

  • Copper
  • ATP7B protein, human
  • Copper-Transporting ATPases