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DUF89 family proteins occur widely in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, but their functions are unknown. Here we define three DUF89 subfamilies (I, II, and III), with subfamily II being split into stand-alone proteins and proteins fused to pantothenate kinase (PanK). We demonstrated that DUF89 proteins have metal-dependent phosphatase activity against reactive phosphoesters or their damaged forms, notably sugar phosphates (subfamilies II and III), phosphopantetheine and its S-sulfonate or sulfonate (subfamily II-PanK fusions), and nucleotides (subfamily I). Genetic and comparative genomic data strongly associated DUF89 genes with phosphoester metabolism. The crystal structure of the yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) subfamily III protein YMR027W revealed a novel phosphatase active site with fructose 6-phosphate and Mg2+ bound near conserved signature residues Asp254 and Asn255 that are critical for activity. These findings indicate that DUF89 proteins are previously unrecognized hydrolases whose characteristic in vivo function is to limit potentially harmful buildups of normal or damaged phosphometabolites.
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This work was supported by US National Science Foundation grants MCB-1153413 and IOS-1025398 (to A.D.H.) and MCB-1153491 (to O.F.); by Genome Canada, the Ontario Genomics Institute (2009-OGI-ABC-1405), the Ontario Research Fund (ORF-GL2-01-004), and NSERC Strategic Network grant IBN (to A.F.Y.); by National Institutes of Health grant GM094585 and the US Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, contract DE-AC02-06CH11357 (to A.J.); and by the C.V. Griffin Sr. Foundation (to A.D.H.). J.S. was supported by US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, grant DOE KC0304000. We thank J.E. Cronan and H.W. Park for enzymes, K. Kodama of Ikeda Corp. of America for pantetheine-S-sulfonate, S. Gerdes for bioinformatic help, E. van Schaftingen for advice on metabolism, and J.D. Rabinowitz for pilot metabolomics.
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A.D.H. and A.F.Y. conceived the project. K.B., R.Z., V.d.C.-L., and A.D.H. made comparative genomic analyses. L.H., A.K., G.B., R.F., M.J.Z., J.S., and J.F.G. carried out biochemical experiments. O.F. performed metabolomics analyses. H.C., A.J., B.N., P.P., A.S., and X.X. performed crystallographic studies. A.D.H., L.H., and A.F.Y. wrote the manuscript.
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Huang, L., Khusnutdinova, A., Nocek, B. et al. A family of metal-dependent phosphatases implicated in metabolite damage-control. Nat Chem Biol 12, 621–627 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2108
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