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Ensemble cryoEM elucidates the mechanism of insulin capture and degradation by human insulin degrading enzyme

  • Elife. 2018 Mar 29;7:e33572. doi: 10.7554/eLife.33572.
Zhening Zhang # 1,  Wenguang G Liang # 2,  Lucas J Bailey 3,  Yong Zi Tan 1 4,  Hui Wei 1,  Andrew Wang 2,  Mara Farcasanu 2,  Virgil A Woods 5,  Lauren A McCord 2,  David Lee 5,  Weifeng Shang 6,  Rebecca Deprez-Poulain 7,  Benoit Deprez 7,  David R Liu 8,  Akiko Koide 9 10 11,  Shohei Koide 9 10 11,  Anthony A Kossiakoff 3,  Sheng Li 5,  Bridget Carragher 1 4,  Clinton S Potter 1 4,  Wei-Jen Tang 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy, Simons Electron Microscopy Center, New York Structural Biology Center, New York, United States.
  • 2 Ben-May Institute for Cancer Research, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.
  • 3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, United States.
  • 4 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, United States.
  • 5 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States.
  • 6 BioCAT, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, United States.
  • 7 Univ. Lille, INSERM, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France.
  • 8 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States.
  • 9 Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, United States.
  • 10 New York University Langone Medical Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, United States.
  • 11 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, United States.
  • # Contributed equally.
PMID: 29596046 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.33572
Abstract

Insulin degrading Enzyme (IDE) plays key roles in degrading Peptides vital in type two diabetes, Alzheimer's, inflammation, and other human diseases. However, the process through which IDE recognizes Peptides that tend to form amyloid fibrils remained unsolved. We used cryoEM to understand both the apo- and insulin-bound dimeric IDE states, revealing that IDE displays a large opening between the homologous ~55 kDa N- and C-terminal halves to allow selective substrate capture based on size and charge complementarity. We also used cryoEM, X-ray crystallography, SAXS, and HDX-MS to elucidate the molecular basis of how amyloidogenic Peptides stabilize the disordered IDE catalytic cleft, thereby inducing selective degradation by substrate-assisted catalysis. Furthermore, our insulin-bound IDE structures explain how IDE processively degrades Insulin by stochastically cutting either chain without breaking disulfide bonds. Together, our studies provide a mechanism for how IDE selectively degrades amyloidogenic Peptides and offers structural insights for developing IDE-based therapies.

Keywords

amyloid peptide; cryoEM; human; insulin; insulin degrading enzyme; integrative structural biology; molecular biophysics; proteostasis; structural biology.

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