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Publication Abstract from PubMed

The 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (OGDHc) orchestrates a critical reaction regulating the TCA cycle. Although the structure of each OGDHc subunit has been solved, the architecture of the intact complex and inter-subunit interactions still remain unknown. Here we report the assembly of native, intact OGDHc from Sus scrofa heart tissue using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET), and subtomogram averaging (STA) to discern native structures of the whole complex and each subunit. Our cryo-EM analyses revealed the E2o cubic core structure comprising eight homotrimers at 3.3-A resolution. More importantly, the numbers, positions and orientations of each OGDHc subunit were determined by cryo-ET and the STA structures of the core were resolved at 7.9-A with the peripheral subunits reaching nanometer resolution. Although the distribution of the peripheral subunits E1o and E3 vary among complexes, they demonstrate a certain regularity within the position and orientation. Moreover, we analyzed and validated the interactions between each subunit, and determined the flexible binding mode for E1o, E2o and E3, resulting in a proposed model of Sus scrofa OGDHc. Together, our results reveal distinctive factors driving the architecture of the intact, native OGDHc.

Molecular architecture of the mammalian 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex.,Zhang Y, Chen M, Chen X, Zhang M, Yin J, Yang Z, Gao X, Zhang S, Yang M Nat Commun. 2024 Sep 27;15(1):8407. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52792-7. PMID:39333186^[1]

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