Cryo-EM structure of native human thyroglobulin

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  • Ricardo Adaixo
  • Eva M. Steiner
  • Ricardo D. Righetto
  • Alexander Schmidt
  • Henning Stahlberg
  • Taylor, Nicholas M I

The thyroglobulin (TG) protein is essential to thyroid hormone synthesis, plays a vital role in the regulation of metabolism, development and growth and serves as intraglandular iodine storage. Its architecture is conserved among vertebrates. Synthesis of triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) hormones depends on the conformation, iodination and post-translational modification of TG. Although structural information is available on recombinant and deglycosylated endogenous human thyroglobulin (hTG) from patients with goiters, the structure of native, fully glycosylated hTG remained unknown. Here, we present the cryo-electron microscopy structure of native and fully glycosylated hTG from healthy thyroid glands to 3.2 Å resolution. The structure provides detailed information on hormonogenic and glycosylation sites. We employ liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) to validate these findings as well as other post-translational modifications and proteolytic cleavage sites. Our results offer insights into thyroid hormonogenesis of native hTG and provide a fundamental understanding of clinically relevant mutations.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer61
TidsskriftNature Communications
Vol/bind13
Udgave nummer1
Antal sider11
ISSN2041-1723
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

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Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (NCCR TransCure) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF17OC0031006). We thank K. Goldie and L. Kovacik for their support in electron microscopy. Calculations were performed at sciCORE (http://scicore.unibas.ch) scientific computing center at the University of Basel. The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research is supported financially by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (grant NNF14CC0001). E.M.S. acknowledges the support of the Lundbeckfonden through a postdoctoral fellowship. N.M.I.T. is a member of the Integrative Structural Biology Cluster (ISBUC) at the University of Copenhagen.

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