The ISWI family protein SMARCA5 contains the ATP-binding pocket that coordinates the catalytic Mg2+ ion and water molecules for ATP hydrolysis. In this study, we demonstrate that SMARCA5 can also possess an alternative metal-binding ability. First, we isolated SMARCA5 on the cobalt column (IMAC) to near homogeneity. Examination of the interactions of SMARCA5 with metal-chelating supports showed that, apart from Co2+, it binds to Cu2+, Zn2+ and Ni2+. The efficiency of the binding to the last-listed metal was influenced by the chelating ligand, resulting in a strong preference for Ni-NTA over the Ni-CM-Asp equivalent. To gain insight in the preferential affinity for the Ni-NTA ligand, QM calculations were performed on model systems and metal-ligand complexes with a limited protein fragment of SMARCA5 containing the double-histidine (dHis) motif. The calculations correlated the observed affinity with the relative stability of the d-block metals to tetradentate ligand coordination over tridentate, as well as their overall octahedral coordination capacity. Likewise, binding free energies derived from model imidazole complexes mirrored the observed Ni-NTA/Ni-CM-Asp preferential affinity. Finally, similar calculations on complexes with a SMARCA5 peptide fragment derived from the AlphaFold structural prediction, captured almost accurately the expected relative stability of the TM complexes, and produced a large energetic separation (~10 kcal∙mol-1) between Ni-NTA and Ni-CM-Asp in favour of the former.

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