Allostery is a fundamental mechanism of protein activation, yet the precise dynamic changes that underlie functional regulation of allosteric enzymes, such as glycogen phosphorylase (GlyP), remain poorly understood. Despite being the first allosteric enzyme described, its structural regulation is still a challenging problem: the key regulatory loops of the GlyP active site (250' and 280s) are weakly stable and often missing density or have large b-factors in structural models. This led to the longstanding hypothesis that GlyP regulation is achieved through gating of the active site by (dis)order transitions, as first proposed by Barford and Johnson. However, testing this requires a quantitative measurement of weakly stable local structure which, to date, has been technically challenging in such a large protein. Hydrogen-deuterium-exchange mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) is a powerful tool for studying protein dynamics, and millisecond HDX-MS has the ability to measure site-localized stability differences in weakly stable structures, making it particularly valuable for investigating allosteric regulation in GlyP. Here, we used millisecond HDX-MS to measure the local structural perturbations of glycogen phosphorylase b (GlyPb), the phosphorylated active form (GlyPa), and the inhibited glucose-6 phosphate complex (GlyPb:G6P) at near-amino acid resolution. Our results support the Barford and Johnson hypothesis for GlyP regulation by providing insight into the dynamic changes of the key regulatory loops.

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