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Dimer dissociation is a key energetic event in the fold-switch pathway of KaiB.

M. Rivera,Pablo Galaz-Davison,Ignacio Retamal-Farfán,E. Komives,C. Ramírez-Sarmiento

Published 2022 in Biophysical Journal

ABSTRACT

Cyanobacteria possesses the simplest circadian clock, composed of three proteins that act as a phosphorylation oscillator: KaiA, KaiB and KaiC. The timing of this oscillator is determined by the fold-switch of KaiB, a structural rearrangement of its C-terminal half that is accompanied by a change in oligomerization state. During the day, KaiB forms a stable tetramer (gsKaiB), whereas it adopts a monomeric thioredoxin-like fold during the night (fsKaiB). Although the structures and functions of both native states are well-studied, little is known about the sequence and structure determinants that control their structural interconversion. Here, we used confinement molecular dynamics (CCR-MD) and folding simulations using structure-based models (SBMs) to show that dissociation of the gsKaiB dimer is a key energetic event for the fold-switch. Hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDXMS) recapitulates the local stability of protein regions reported by CCR-MD, with both approaches consistently indicating that the energy and backbone flexibility changes are solely associated with the region that fold-switches between gsKaiB and fsKaiB and that the localized regions that differentially stabilize gsKaiB also involve regions outside the dimer interface. Moreover, two mutants (R23C and R75C) previously reported to be relevant for altering the rhythmicity of the Kai clock were also studied by HDXMS. Particularly, R75C populates dimeric and monomeric states with a deuterium incorporation profile comparable to the one observed for fsKaiB, emphasizing the importance of the oligomerization state of KaiB for the fold-switch. These findings suggest that the information necessary to control the rhythmicity of the cyanobacterial biological clock is, to a great extent, encoded within the KaiB sequence.

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