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Stocker C, Khatanbaatar T, Bressan L, Würth-Roderer K, Cordara G, Krengel U, Kast P. Novel exported fusion enzymes with chorismate mutase and cyclohexadienyl dehydratase activity: Shikimate pathway enzymes teamed up in no man's land. J Biol Chem 2023; 299:105161. [PMID: 37586588 PMCID: PMC10520331 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.105161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/18/2023] Open
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Chorismate mutase (CM) and cyclohexadienyl dehydratase (CDT) catalyze two subsequent reactions in the intracellular biosynthesis of l-phenylalanine (Phe). Here, we report the discovery of novel and extremely rare bifunctional fusion enzymes, consisting of fused CM and CDT domains, which are exported from the cytoplasm. Such enzymes were found in only nine bacterial species belonging to non-pathogenic γ- or β-Proteobacteria. In γ-proteobacterial fusion enzymes, the CM domain is N-terminal to the CDT domain, whereas the order is inverted in β-Proteobacteria. The CM domains share 15% to 20% sequence identity with the AroQγ class CM holotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (∗MtCM), and the CDT domains 40% to 60% identity with the exported monofunctional enzyme of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PheC). In vitro kinetics revealed a Km <7 μM, much lower than for ∗MtCM, whereas kinetic parameters are similar for CDT domains and PheC. There is no feedback inhibition of CM or CDT by the pathway's end product Phe, and no catalytic benefit of the domain fusion compared with engineered single-domain constructs. The fusion enzymes of Aequoribacter fuscus, Janthinobacterium sp. HH01, and Duganella sacchari were crystallized and their structures refined to 1.6, 1.7, and 2.4 Å resolution, respectively. Neither the crystal structures nor the size-exclusion chromatography show evidence for substrate channeling or higher oligomeric structure that could account for the cooperation of CM and CDT active sites. The genetic neighborhood with genes encoding transporter and substrate binding proteins suggests that these exported bifunctional fusion enzymes may participate in signaling systems rather than in the biosynthesis of Phe.
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- Christian Stocker
- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, D-CHAB, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, D-CHAB, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, D-CHAB, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Fahrig-Kamarauskait J, Würth-Roderer K, Thorbjørnsrud HV, Mailand S, Krengel U, Kast P. Evolving the naturally compromised chorismate mutase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis to top performance. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:17514-17534. [PMID: 33453995 PMCID: PMC7762937 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Chorismate mutase (CM), an essential enzyme at the branch-point of the shikimate pathway, is required for the biosynthesis of phenylalanine and tyrosine in bacteria, archaea, plants, and fungi. MtCM, the CM from Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has less than 1% of the catalytic efficiency of a typical natural CM and requires complex formation with 3-deoxy-d-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate synthase for high activity. To explore the full potential of MtCM for catalyzing its native reaction, we applied diverse iterative cycles of mutagenesis and selection, thereby raising kcat/Km 270-fold to 5 × 105m−1s−1, which is even higher than for the complex. Moreover, the evolutionarily optimized autonomous MtCM, which had 11 of its 90 amino acids exchanged, was stabilized compared with its progenitor, as indicated by a 9 °C increase in melting temperature. The 1.5 Å crystal structure of the top-evolved MtCM variant reveals the molecular underpinnings of this activity boost. Some acquired residues (e.g. Pro52 and Asp55) are conserved in naturally efficient CMs, but most of them lie beyond the active site. Our evolutionary trajectories reached a plateau at the level of the best natural enzymes, suggesting that we have exhausted the potential of MtCM. Taken together, these findings show that the scaffold of MtCM, which naturally evolved for mediocrity to enable inter-enzyme allosteric regulation of the shikimate pathway, is inherently capable of high activity.
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Hertle R, Nazet J, Semmelmann F, Schlee S, Funke F, Merkl R, Sterner R. Reprogramming the Specificity of a Protein Interface by Computational and Data-Driven Design. Structure 2020; 29:292-304.e3. [PMID: 33296666 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2020.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2020] [Revised: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The formation of specific protein complexes in a cell is a non-trivial problem given the co-existence of thousands of different polypeptide chains. A particularly difficult case are two glutamine amidotransferase complexes (anthranilate synthase [AS] and aminodeoxychorismate synthase [ADCS]), which are composed of homologous pairs of synthase and glutaminase subunits. We have attempted to identify discriminating interface residues of the glutaminase subunit TrpG from AS, which are responsible for its specific interaction with the synthase subunit TrpEx and prevent binding to the closely related synthase subunit PabB from ADCS. For this purpose, TrpG-specific interface residues were grafted into the glutaminase subunit PabA from ADCS by two different approaches, namely a computational and a data-driven one. Both approaches resulted in PabA variants that bound TrpEx with higher affinity than PabB. Hence, we have accomplished a reprogramming of protein-protein interaction specificity that provides insights into the evolutionary adaptation of protein interfaces.
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- Regina Hertle
- Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, Regensburg Center for Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, Regensburg Center for Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, Regensburg Center for Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, Regensburg Center for Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, Regensburg Center for Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, Regensburg Center for Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany.
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- Institute of Biophysics and Physical Biochemistry, Regensburg Center for Biochemistry, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany.
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Herbert AJ, Shepherd SA, Cronin VA, Bennett MR, Sung R, Micklefield J. Engineering Orthogonal Methyltransferases to Create Alternative Bioalkylation Pathways. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:14950-14956. [PMID: 32402113 PMCID: PMC7496830 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Revised: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
S-adenosyl-l-methionine (SAM)-dependent methyltransferases (MTs) catalyse the methylation of a vast array of small metabolites and biomacromolecules. Recently, rare carboxymethylation pathways have been discovered, including carboxymethyltransferase enzymes that utilise a carboxy-SAM (cxSAM) cofactor generated from SAM by a cxSAM synthase (CmoA). We show how MT enzymes can utilise cxSAM to catalyse carboxymethylation of tetrahydroisoquinoline (THIQ) and catechol substrates. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to create orthogonal MTs possessing improved catalytic activity and selectivity for cxSAM, with subsequent coupling to CmoA resulting in more efficient and selective carboxymethylation. An enzymatic approach was also developed to generate a previously undescribed co-factor, carboxy-S-adenosyl-l-ethionine (cxSAE), thereby enabling the stereoselective transfer of a chiral 1-carboxyethyl group to the substrate.
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- Abigail J. Herbert
- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of BiotechnologyThe University of Manchester131 Princess StreetManchesterM1 7DNUK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of BiotechnologyThe University of Manchester131 Princess StreetManchesterM1 7DNUK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of BiotechnologyThe University of Manchester131 Princess StreetManchesterM1 7DNUK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of BiotechnologyThe University of Manchester131 Princess StreetManchesterM1 7DNUK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of BiotechnologyThe University of Manchester131 Princess StreetManchesterM1 7DNUK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of BiotechnologyThe University of Manchester131 Princess StreetManchesterM1 7DNUK
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Russ WP, Figliuzzi M, Stocker C, Barrat-Charlaix P, Socolich M, Kast P, Hilvert D, Monasson R, Cocco S, Weigt M, Ranganathan R. An evolution-based model for designing chorismate mutase enzymes. Science 2020; 369:440-445. [PMID: 32703877 DOI: 10.1126/science.aba3304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The rational design of enzymes is an important goal for both fundamental and practical reasons. Here, we describe a process to learn the constraints for specifying proteins purely from evolutionary sequence data, design and build libraries of synthetic genes, and test them for activity in vivo using a quantitative complementation assay. For chorismate mutase, a key enzyme in the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids, we demonstrate the design of natural-like catalytic function with substantial sequence diversity. Further optimization focuses the generative model toward function in a specific genomic context. The data show that sequence-based statistical models suffice to specify proteins and provide access to an enormous space of functional sequences. This result provides a foundation for a general process for evolution-based design of artificial proteins.
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- William P Russ
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle and Quantitative, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle and Quantitative, Paris, France.,Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Center for Physics of Evolving Systems, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Pritzker School for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL and CNRS, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL and CNRS, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris Seine, Laboratoire de Biologie Computationnelle and Quantitative, Paris, France.
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- Center for Physics of Evolving Systems, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the Pritzker School for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Herbert AJ, Shepherd SA, Cronin VA, Bennett MR, Sung R, Micklefield J. Engineering Orthogonal Methyltransferases to Create Alternative Bioalkylation Pathways. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202004963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Abigail J. Herbert
- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology The University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology The University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology The University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology The University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology The University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Manchester Institute of Biotechnology The University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK
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Qian Y, Lynch JH, Guo L, Rhodes D, Morgan JA, Dudareva N. Completion of the cytosolic post-chorismate phenylalanine biosynthetic pathway in plants. Nat Commun 2019. [PMID: 30604768 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07969-7962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023] Open
Abstract
In addition to being a vital component of proteins, phenylalanine is also a precursor of numerous aromatic primary and secondary metabolites with broad physiological functions. In plants phenylalanine is synthesized predominantly via the arogenate pathway in plastids. Here, we describe the structure, molecular players and subcellular localization of a microbial-like phenylpyruvate pathway for phenylalanine biosynthesis in plants. Using a reverse genetic approach and metabolic flux analysis, we provide evidence that the cytosolic chorismate mutase is responsible for directing carbon flux towards cytosolic phenylalanine production via the phenylpyruvate pathway. We also show that an alternative transcription start site of a known plastidial enzyme produces a functional cytosolic prephenate dehydratase that catalyzes the conversion of prephenate to phenylpyruvate, the intermediate step between chorismate mutase and phenylpyruvate aminotransferase. Thus, our results complete elucidation of phenylalanine biosynthesis via phenylpyruvate in plants, showing that this pathway splits from the known plastidial arogenate pathway at chorismate, instead of prephenate as previously thought, and the complete pathway is localized in the cytosol.
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- Yichun Qian
- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2010, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University St., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University St., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2010, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University St., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2100, USA
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2010, USA.
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University St., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA.
- Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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Qian Y, Lynch JH, Guo L, Rhodes D, Morgan JA, Dudareva N. Completion of the cytosolic post-chorismate phenylalanine biosynthetic pathway in plants. Nat Commun 2019; 10:15. [PMID: 30604768 PMCID: PMC6318282 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07969-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
In addition to being a vital component of proteins, phenylalanine is also a precursor of numerous aromatic primary and secondary metabolites with broad physiological functions. In plants phenylalanine is synthesized predominantly via the arogenate pathway in plastids. Here, we describe the structure, molecular players and subcellular localization of a microbial-like phenylpyruvate pathway for phenylalanine biosynthesis in plants. Using a reverse genetic approach and metabolic flux analysis, we provide evidence that the cytosolic chorismate mutase is responsible for directing carbon flux towards cytosolic phenylalanine production via the phenylpyruvate pathway. We also show that an alternative transcription start site of a known plastidial enzyme produces a functional cytosolic prephenate dehydratase that catalyzes the conversion of prephenate to phenylpyruvate, the intermediate step between chorismate mutase and phenylpyruvate aminotransferase. Thus, our results complete elucidation of phenylalanine biosynthesis via phenylpyruvate in plants, showing that this pathway splits from the known plastidial arogenate pathway at chorismate, instead of prephenate as previously thought, and the complete pathway is localized in the cytosol.
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- Yichun Qian
- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2010, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University St., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University St., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2010, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University St., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA.,Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 Stadium Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2100, USA
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- Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, 625 Agriculture Mall Dr., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2010, USA. .,Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, 175 South University St., West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2063, USA. .,Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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Chiarelli LR, Mori M, Barlocco D, Beretta G, Gelain A, Pini E, Porcino M, Mori G, Stelitano G, Costantino L, Lapillo M, Bonanni D, Poli G, Tuccinardi T, Villa S, Meneghetti F. Discovery and development of novel salicylate synthase (MbtI) furanic inhibitors as antitubercular agents. Eur J Med Chem 2018; 155:754-763. [PMID: 29940465 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2018.06.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2018] [Revised: 06/05/2018] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
We report on the virtual screening, synthesis, and biological evaluation of new furan derivatives targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis salicylate synthase (MbtI). A receptor-based virtual screening procedure was applied to screen the Enamine database, identifying two compounds, I and III, endowed with a good enzyme inhibitory activity. Considering the most active compound I as starting point for the development of novel MbtI inhibitors, we obtained new derivatives based on the furan scaffold. Among the SAR performed on this class, compound 1a emerged as the most potent MbtI inhibitor reported to date (Ki = 5.3 μM). Moreover, compound 1a showed a promising antimycobacterial activity (MIC99 = 156 μM), which is conceivably related to mycobactin biosynthesis inhibition.
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- Laurent R Chiarelli
- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Lazzaro Spallanzani", Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Lazzaro Spallanzani", Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "Lazzaro Spallanzani", Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100, Pavia, Italy
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- Dipartimento Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, via Campi 103, 41121, Modena, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università di Pisa, via Bonanno 6, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università di Pisa, via Bonanno 6, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Università di Siena, via A. Moro 2, 53100, Siena, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università di Pisa, via Bonanno 6, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milano, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via L. Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milano, Italy
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Burschowsky D, Thorbjørnsrud HV, Heim JB, Fahrig-Kamarauskaitė JR, Würth-Roderer K, Kast P, Krengel U. Inter-Enzyme Allosteric Regulation of Chorismate Mutase in Corynebacterium glutamicum: Structural Basis of Feedback Activation by Trp. Biochemistry 2017; 57:557-573. [PMID: 29178787 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Corynebacterium glutamicum is widely used for the industrial production of amino acids, nucleotides, and vitamins. The shikimate pathway enzymes DAHP synthase (CgDS, Cg2391) and chorismate mutase (CgCM, Cgl0853) play a key role in the biosynthesis of aromatic compounds. Here we show that CgCM requires the formation of a complex with CgDS to achieve full activity, and that both CgCM and CgDS are feedback regulated by aromatic amino acids binding to CgDS. Kinetic analysis showed that Phe and Tyr inhibit CgCM activity by inter-enzyme allostery, whereas binding of Trp to CgDS strongly activates CgCM. Mechanistic insights were gained from crystal structures of the CgCM homodimer, tetrameric CgDS, and the heterooctameric CgCM-CgDS complex, refined to 1.1, 2.5, and 2.2 Å resolution, respectively. Structural details from the allosteric binding sites reveal that DAHP synthase is recruited as the dominant regulatory platform to control the shikimate pathway, similar to the corresponding enzyme complex from Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo , NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich , CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo , NO-0315 Oslo, Norway
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Chen Y, Li TL, Lin X, Li X, Li XD, Guo Z. Crystal structure of the thioesterification conformation of Bacillus subtilis o-succinylbenzoyl-CoA synthetase reveals a distinct substrate-binding mode. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:12296-12310. [PMID: 28559280 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m117.790410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2017] [Revised: 05/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
Abstract
o-Succinylbenzoyl-CoA (OSB-CoA) synthetase (MenE) is an essential enzyme in bacterial vitamin K biosynthesis and an important target in the development of new antibiotics. It is a member of the adenylating enzymes (ANL) family, which reconfigure their active site in two different active conformations, one for the adenylation half-reaction and the other for a thioesterification half-reaction, in a domain-alternation catalytic mechanism. Although several aspects of the adenylating mechanism in MenE have recently been uncovered, its thioesterification conformation remains elusive. Here, using a catalytically competent Bacillus subtilis mutant protein complexed with an OSB-CoA analogue, we determined MenE high-resolution structures to 1.76 and 1.90 Å resolution in a thioester-forming conformation. By comparison with the adenylation conformation, we found that MenE's C-domain rotates around the Ser-384 hinge by 139.5° during domain-alternation catalysis. The structures also revealed a thioesterification active site specifically conserved among MenE orthologues and a substrate-binding mode distinct from those of many other acyl/aryl-CoA synthetases. Of note, using site-directed mutagenesis, we identified several residues that specifically contribute to the thioesterification half-reaction without affecting the adenylation half-reaction. Moreover, we observed a substantial movement of the activated succinyl group in the thioesterification half-reaction. These findings provide new insights into the domain-alternation catalysis of a bacterial enzyme essential for vitamin K biosynthesis and of its adenylating homologues in the ANL enzyme family.
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- Yaozong Chen
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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The biochemical properties of the two Arabidopsis thaliana isochorismate synthases. Biochem J 2017; 474:1579-1590. [PMID: 28356402 PMCID: PMC5408348 DOI: 10.1042/bcj20161069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2016] [Revised: 03/25/2017] [Accepted: 03/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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The important plant hormone salicylic acid (SA; 2-hydroxybenzoic acid) regulates several key plant responses including, most notably, defence against pathogens. A key enzyme for SA biosynthesis is isochorismate synthase (ICS), which converts chorismate into isochorismate, and for which there are two genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. One (AtICS1) has been shown to be required for increased SA biosynthesis in response to pathogens and its expression can be stimulated throughout the leaf by virus infection and exogenous SA. The other (AtICS2) appears to be expressed constitutively, predominantly in the plant vasculature. Here, we characterise the enzymatic activity of both isozymes expressed as hexahistidine fusion proteins in Escherichia coli. We show for the first time that recombinant AtICS2 is enzymatically active. Both isozymes are Mg2+-dependent with similar temperature optima (ca. 33°C) and similar Km values for chorismate of 34.3 ± 3.7 and 28.8 ± 6.9 µM for ICS1 and ICS2, respectively, but reaction rates were greater for ICS1 than for ICS2, with respective values for Vmax of 63.5 ± 2.4 and 28.3 ± 2.0 nM s−1 and for kcat of 38.1 ± 1.5 and 17.0 ± 1.2 min−1. However, neither enzyme displayed isochorismate pyruvate lyase (IPL) activity, which would enable these proteins to act as bifunctional SA synthases, i.e. to convert chorismate into SA. These results show that although Arabidopsis has two functional ICS enzymes, it must possess one or more IPL enzymes to complete biosynthesis of SA starting from chorismate.
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Remote Control by Inter-Enzyme Allostery: A Novel Paradigm for Regulation of the Shikimate Pathway. J Mol Biol 2016; 428:1237-1255. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2016.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2015] [Revised: 12/22/2015] [Accepted: 01/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Chen Y, Sun Y, Song H, Guo Z. Structural Basis for the ATP-dependent Configuration of Adenylation Active Site in Bacillus subtilis o-Succinylbenzoyl-CoA Synthetase. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:23971-83. [PMID: 26276389 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.676304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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o-Succinylbenzoyl-CoA synthetase, or MenE, is an essential adenylate-forming enzyme targeted for development of novel antibiotics in the menaquinone biosynthesis. Using its crystal structures in a ligand-free form or in complex with nucleotides, a conserved pattern is identified in the interaction between ATP and adenylating enzymes, including acyl/aryl-CoA synthetases, adenylation domains of nonribosomal peptide synthetases, and luciferases. It involves tight gripping interactions of the phosphate-binding loop (P-loop) with the ATP triphosphate moiety and an open-closed conformational change to form a compact adenylation active site. In MenE catalysis, this ATP-enzyme interaction creates a new binding site for the carboxylate substrate, allowing revelation of the determinants of substrate specificities and in-line alignment of the two substrates for backside nucleophilic substitution reaction by molecular modeling. In addition, the ATP-enzyme interaction is suggested to play a crucial catalytic role by mutation of the P-loop residues hydrogen-bonded to ATP. Moreover, the ATP-enzyme interaction has also clarified the positioning and catalytic role of a conserved lysine residue in stabilization of the transition state. These findings provide new insights into the adenylation half-reaction in the domain alteration catalytic mechanism of the adenylate-forming enzymes.
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- Yaozong Chen
- From the Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- From the Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- From the Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- From the Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Ashenafi M, Reddy PT, Parsons JF, Byrnes WM. The fused anthranilate synthase from Streptomyces venezuelae functions as a monomer. Mol Cell Biochem 2015; 400:9-15. [PMID: 25355158 PMCID: PMC4303589 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-014-2256-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2014] [Accepted: 10/17/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Recently, we showed that the fused chorismate-utilizing enzyme from the antibiotic-producing soil bacterium Streptomyces venezuelae is an anthranilate synthase (designated SvAS), not a 2-amino-2-deoxyisochorismate (ADIC) synthase, as was predicted based on its amino acid sequence similarity to the phenazine biosynthetic enzyme PhzE (an ADIC synthase). Here, we report the characterization of SvAS using steady-state kinetics, gel filtration chromatography, and laser light scattering. The recombinant His-tagged enzyme has Michaelis constants Km with respect to substrates chorismate and glutamine of 8.2 ± 0.2 μM and 0.84 ± 0.05 mM, respectively, and a catalytic rate constant k cat of 0.57 ± 0.02 s(-1) at 30 °C. Unlike most other anthranilate synthases, SvAS does not utilize ammonia as a substrate. The enzyme is competitively but non-cooperatively inhibited by tryptophan (K i = 11.1 ± 0.1 μM) and is active as a monomer. The finding that SvAS is a monomer jibes with the variety of association modes that have been observed for anthranilate synthases from different microorganisms, and it identifies the enzyme's minimal functional unit as a single TrpE-TrpG pair.
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- Meseret Ashenafi
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, 520 W Street, NW, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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- Biomolecular Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
- University of Maryland, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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- University of Maryland, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, Howard University, 520 W Street, NW, Washington, DC 20059, USA
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Functional mapping of protein-protein interactions in an enzyme complex by directed evolution. PLoS One 2014; 9:e116234. [PMID: 25551646 PMCID: PMC4281200 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2014] [Accepted: 12/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The shikimate pathway enzyme chorismate mutase converts chorismate into prephenate, a precursor of Tyr and Phe. The intracellular chorismate mutase (MtCM) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is poorly active on its own, but becomes >100-fold more efficient upon formation of a complex with the first enzyme of the shikimate pathway, 3-deoxy-d-arabino-heptulosonate-7-phosphate synthase (MtDS). The crystal structure of the enzyme complex revealed involvement of C-terminal MtCM residues with the MtDS interface. Here we employed evolutionary strategies to probe the tolerance to substitution of the C-terminal MtCM residues from positions 84–90. Variants with randomized positions were subjected to stringent selection in vivo requiring productive interactions with MtDS for survival. Sequence patterns identified in active library members coincide with residue conservation in natural chorismate mutases of the AroQδ subclass to which MtCM belongs. An Arg-Gly dyad at positions 85 and 86, invariant in AroQδ sequences, was intolerant to mutation, whereas Leu88 and Gly89 exhibited a preference for small and hydrophobic residues in functional MtCM-MtDS complexes. In the absence of MtDS, selection under relaxed conditions identifies positions 84–86 as MtCM integrity determinants, suggesting that the more C-terminal residues function in the activation by MtDS. Several MtCM variants, purified using a novel plasmid-based T7 RNA polymerase gene expression system, showed that a diminished ability to physically interact with MtDS correlates with reduced activatability and feedback regulatory control by Tyr and Phe. Mapping critical protein-protein interaction sites by evolutionary strategies may pinpoint promising targets for drugs that interfere with the activity of protein complexes.
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In vitro production and purification of isochorismate using a two-enzyme cascade. J Biotechnol 2014; 191:93-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2014.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2014] [Revised: 05/26/2014] [Accepted: 06/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Electrostatic transition state stabilization rather than reactant destabilization provides the chemical basis for efficient chorismate mutase catalysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:17516-21. [PMID: 25422475 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1408512111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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For more than half a century, transition state theory has provided a useful framework for understanding the origins of enzyme catalysis. As proposed by Pauling, enzymes accelerate chemical reactions by binding transition states tighter than substrates, thereby lowering the activation energy compared with that of the corresponding uncatalyzed process. This paradigm has been challenged for chorismate mutase (CM), a well-characterized metabolic enzyme that catalyzes the rearrangement of chorismate to prephenate. Calculations have predicted the decisive factor in CM catalysis to be ground state destabilization rather than transition state stabilization. Using X-ray crystallography, we show, in contrast, that a sluggish variant of Bacillus subtilis CM, in which a cationic active-site arginine was replaced by a neutral citrulline, is a poor catalyst even though it effectively preorganizes chorismate for the reaction. A series of high-resolution molecular snapshots of the reaction coordinate, including the apo enzyme, and complexes with substrate, transition state analog and product, demonstrate that an active site, which is only complementary in shape to a reactive substrate conformer, is insufficient for effective catalysis. Instead, as with other enzymes, electrostatic stabilization of the CM transition state appears to be crucial for achieving high reaction rates.
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Song H, Sung HP, Tse YS, Jiang M, Guo Z. Ligand-dependent active-site closure revealed in the crystal structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis MenB complexed with product analogues. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 70:2959-69. [PMID: 25372686 DOI: 10.1107/s1399004714019440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2014] [Accepted: 08/27/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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1,4-Dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl coenzyme A (DHNA-CoA) synthase catalyzes an essential intramolecular Claisen condensation in menaquinone biosynthesis and is an important target for the development of new antibiotics. This enzyme in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is cofactor-free and is classified as a type II DHNA-CoA synthase, differing from type I enzymes, which rely on exogenous bicarbonate for catalysis. Its crystal structures in complex with product analogues have been determined at high resolution to reveal ligand-dependent structural changes, which include the ordering of a 27-residue active-site loop (amino acids 107-133) and the reorientation of the carboxy-terminal helix (amino acids 289-301) that forms part of the active site from the opposing subunit across the trimer-trimer interface. These structural changes result in closure of the active site to the bulk solution, which is likely to take place through an induced-fit mechanism, similar to that observed for type I DHNA-CoA synthases. These findings demonstrate that the ligand-dependent conformational changes are a conserved feature of all DHNA-CoA synthases, providing new insights into the catalytic mechanism of this essential tubercular enzyme.
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- Haigang Song
- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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Sun Y, Yin S, Feng Y, Li J, Zhou J, Liu C, Zhu G, Guo Z. Molecular basis of the general base catalysis of an α/β-hydrolase catalytic triad. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:15867-79. [PMID: 24737327 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.535641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The serine-histidine-aspartate triad is well known for its covalent, nucleophilic catalysis in a diverse array of enzymatic transformations. Here we show that its nucleophilicity is shielded and its catalytic role is limited to being a specific general base by an open-closed conformational change in the catalysis of (1R,6R)-2-succinyl-6-hydroxy-2,4-cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylate synthase (or MenH), a typical α/β-hydrolase fold enzyme in the vitamin K biosynthetic pathway. This enzyme is found to adopt an open conformation without a functional triad in its ligand-free form and a closed conformation with a fully functional catalytic triad in the presence of its reaction product. The open-to-closed conformational transition involves movement of half of the α-helical cap domain, which causes extensive structural changes in the α/β-domain and forces the side chain of the triad histidine to adopt an energetically disfavored gauche conformation to form the functional triad. NMR analysis shows that the inactive open conformation without a triad prevails in ligand-free solution and is converted to the closed conformation with a properly formed triad by the reaction product. Mutation of the residues crucial to this open-closed transition either greatly decreases or completely eliminates the enzyme activity, supporting an important catalytic role for the structural change. These findings suggest that the open-closed conformational change tightly couples formation of the catalytic triad to substrate binding to enhance the substrate specificities and simultaneously shield the nucleophilicity of the triad, thus allowing it to expand its catalytic power beyond the nucleophilic catalysis.
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- Yueru Sun
- From the Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China and
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- From the Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China and
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- From the Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China and
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- State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China and Division of Life Sciences, and
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China and Division of Life Sciences, and
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- From the Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China and
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Sun Y, Song H, Li J, Li Y, Jiang M, Zhou J, Guo Z. Structural basis of the induced-fit mechanism of 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl coenzyme A synthase from the crotonase fold superfamily. PLoS One 2013; 8:e63095. [PMID: 23658663 PMCID: PMC3637252 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2013] [Accepted: 03/28/2013] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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1, 4-Dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl coenzyme A (DHNA-CoA) synthase is a typical crotonase fold enzyme with an implicated role of conformational changes in catalysis. We have identified these conformational changes by determining the structures of its Escherichia coli and Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 orthologues in complex with a product analog. The structural changes include the folding of an active-site loop into a β-hairpin and significant reorientation of a helix at the carboxy terminus. Interestingly, a new interface is formed between the ordered loop and the reoriented helix, both of which also form additional interactions with the coenzyme A moiety of the ligand. Site-directed mutation of the amino acid residues involved in these ligand-induced interactions significantly diminishes the enzyme activity. These results suggest a catalytically essential induced-fit that is likely initiated by the enzyme-ligand interactions at the active site.
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- Yueru Sun
- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bio-organic and Natural Products Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- * E-mail: (ZG); (JZ)
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- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
- * E-mail: (ZG); (JZ)
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The thiamine-dependent enzyme of the vitamin K biosynthesis catalyzes reductive C-N bond ligation between nitroarenes and α-ketoacids. Sci China Chem 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-012-4792-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Munack S, Leroux V, Roderer K, Ökvist M, van Eerde A, Gundersen LL, Krengel U, Kast P. When Inhibitors Do Not Inhibit: Critical Evaluation of Rational Drug Design Targeting Chorismate Mutase fromMycobacterium tuberculosis. Chem Biodivers 2012; 9:2507-27. [DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.201200322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2012] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Zhu WW, Wang C, Jipp J, Ferguson L, Lucas SN, Hicks MA, Glasner ME. Residues required for activity in Escherichia coli o-succinylbenzoate synthase (OSBS) are not conserved in all OSBS enzymes. Biochemistry 2012; 51:6171-81. [PMID: 22775324 DOI: 10.1021/bi300753j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Understanding how enzyme specificity evolves will provide guiding principles for protein engineering and function prediction. The o-succinylbenzoate synthase (OSBS) family is an excellent model system for elucidating these principles because it has many highly divergent amino acid sequences that are <20% identical, and some members have evolved a second function. The OSBS family belongs to the enolase superfamily, members of which use a set of conserved residues to catalyze a wide variety of reactions. These residues are the only conserved residues in the OSBS family, so they are not sufficient to determine reaction specificity. Some enzymes in the OSBS family catalyze another reaction, N-succinylamino acid racemization (NSAR). NSARs cannot be segregated into a separate family because their sequences are highly similar to those of known OSBSs, and many of them have both OSBS and NSAR activities. To determine how such divergent enzymes can catalyze the same reaction and how NSAR activity evolved, we divided the OSBS family into subfamilies and compared the divergence of their active site residues. Correlating sequence conservation with the effects of mutations in Escherichia coli OSBS identified two nonconserved residues (R159 and G288) at which mutations decrease efficiency ≥200-fold. These residues are not conserved in the subfamily that includes NSAR enzymes. The OSBS/NSAR subfamily binds the substrate in a different orientation, eliminating selective pressure to retain arginine and glycine at these positions. This supports the hypothesis that specificity-determining residues have diverged in the OSBS family and provides insight into the sequence changes required for the evolution of NSAR activity.
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- Wan Wen Zhu
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2128, USA
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Sun Y, Song H, Li J, Jiang M, Li Y, Zhou J, Guo Z. Active site binding and catalytic role of bicarbonate in 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl coenzyme A synthases from vitamin K biosynthetic pathways. Biochemistry 2012; 51:4580-9. [PMID: 22606952 DOI: 10.1021/bi300486j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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1,4-Dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl coenzyme A (DHNA-CoA) synthase, or MenB, catalyzes a carbon-carbon bond formation reaction in the biosynthesis of both vitamin K1 and K2. Bicarbonate is crucial to the activity of a large subset of its orthologues but lacks a clearly defined structural and mechanistic role. Here we determine the crystal structure of the holoenzymes from Escherichia coli at 2.30 Å and Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 at 2.04 Å, in which the bicarbonate cofactor is bound to the enzyme active site at a position equivalent to that of the side chain carboxylate of an aspartate residue conserved among bicarbonate-insensitive DHNA-CoA synthases. Binding of the planar anion involves both nonspecific electrostatic attraction and specific hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions. In the absence of bicarbonate, the anion binding site is occupied by a chloride ion or nitrate, an inhibitor directly competing with bicarbonate. These results provide a solid structural basis for the bicarbonate dependence of the enzymatic activity of type I DHNA-CoA synthases. The unique location of the bicarbonate ion in relation to the expected position of the substrate α-proton in the enzyme's active site suggests a critical catalytic role for the anionic cofactor as a catalytic base in enolate formation.
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- Yueru Sun
- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Song H, Guo Z. Characterization of 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl-coenzyme A synthase (MenB) in phylloquinone biosynthesis of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Sci China Chem 2011. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-011-4448-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Chen M, Jiang M, Sun Y, Guo ZF, Guo Z. Stabilization of the second oxyanion intermediate by 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl-coenzyme A synthase of the menaquinone pathway: spectroscopic evidence of the involvement of a conserved aspartic acid. Biochemistry 2011; 50:5893-904. [PMID: 21627110 DOI: 10.1021/bi200376x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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1,4-Dihydroxy-2-naphthoyl-coenzyme A (DHNA-CoA) synthase, or MenB, catalyzes an intramolecular Claisen condensation involving two oxyanion intermediates in the biosynthetic pathway of menaquinone, an essential respiration electron transporter in many microorganisms. Here we report the finding that the DHNA-CoA product and its analogues bind and inhibit the synthase from Escherichia coli with significant ultraviolet--visible spectral changes, which are similar to the changes induced by deprotonation of the free inhibitors in a basic solution. Dissection of the structure--affinity relationships of the inhibitors identifies the hydroxyl groups at positions 1 (C1-OH) and 4 (C4-OH) of DHNA-CoA or their equivalents as the dominant and minor sites, respectively, for the enzyme--ligand interaction that polarizes or deprotonates the bound ligands to cause the observed spectral changes. In the meantime, spectroscopic studies with active site mutants indicate that C4-OH of the enzyme-bound DHNA-CoA interacts with conserved polar residues Arg-91, Tyr-97, and Tyr-258 likely through a hydrogen bonding network that also includes Ser-161. In addition, site-directed mutation of the conserved Asp-163 to alanine causes a complete loss of the ligand binding ability of the protein, suggesting that the Asp-163 side chain is most likely hydrogen-bonded to C1-OH of DHNA-CoA to provide the dominant polarizing effect. Moreover, this mutation also completely eliminates the enzyme activity, strongly supporting the possibility that the Asp-163 side chain provides a strong stabilizing hydrogen bond to the tetrahedral oxyanion, which takes a position similar to that of C1-OH of the enzyme-bound DHNA-CoA and is the second high-energy intermediate in the intracellular Claisen condensation reaction. Interestingly, both Arg-91 and Tyr-97 are located in a disordered loop forming part of the active site of all available DHNA-CoA synthase structures. Their involvement in the interaction with the small molecule ligands suggests that the disordered loop is folded in interaction with the substrates or reaction intermediates, supporting an induced-fit catalytic mechanism for the enzyme.
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- Minjiao Chen
- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China
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Ziebart KT, Dixon SM, Avila B, El-Badri MH, Guggenheim KG, Kurth MJ, Toney MD. Targeting multiple chorismate-utilizing enzymes with a single inhibitor: validation of a three-stage design. J Med Chem 2010; 53:3718-29. [PMID: 20359225 DOI: 10.1021/jm100158v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Chorismate-utilizing enzymes are attractive antimicrobial drug targets due to their absence in humans and their central role in bacterial survival and virulence. The structural and mechanistic homology of a group of these inspired the goal of discovering inhibitors that target multiple enzymes. Previously, we discovered seven inhibitors of 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate synthase (ADCS) in an on-bead, fluorescent-based screen of a 2304-member one-bead-one-compound combinatorial library. The inhibitors comprise PAYLOAD and COMBI stages, which interact with active site and surface residues, respectively, and are linked by a SPACER stage. These seven compounds, and six derivatives thereof, also inhibit two other enzymes in this family, isochorismate synthase (IS) and anthranilate synthase (AS). The best binding compound inhibits ADCS, IS, and AS with K(i) values of 720, 56, and 80 microM, respectively. Inhibitors with varying SPACER lengths show the original choice of lysine to be optimal. Lastly, inhibition data confirm the PAYLOAD stage directs the inhibitors to the ADCS active site.
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- Kristin T Ziebart
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
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Ziebart KT, Toney MD. Nucleophile Specificity in Anthranilate Synthase, Aminodeoxychorismate Synthase, Isochorismate Synthase, and Salicylate Synthase. Biochemistry 2010; 49:2851-9. [DOI: 10.1021/bi100021x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Kristin T. Ziebart
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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Sasso S, Okvist M, Roderer K, Gamper M, Codoni G, Krengel U, Kast P. Structure and function of a complex between chorismate mutase and DAHP synthase: efficiency boost for the junior partner. EMBO J 2009; 28:2128-42. [PMID: 19556970 DOI: 10.1038/emboj.2009.165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2009] [Accepted: 05/26/2009] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Chorismate mutase catalyzes a key step in the shikimate biosynthetic pathway towards phenylalanine and tyrosine. Curiously, the intracellular chorismate mutase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MtCM; Rv0948c) has poor activity and lacks prominent active-site residues. However, its catalytic efficiency increases >100-fold on addition of DAHP synthase (MtDS; Rv2178c), another shikimate-pathway enzyme. The 2.35 A crystal structure of the MtCM-MtDS complex bound to a transition-state analogue shows a central core formed by four MtDS subunits sandwiched between two MtCM dimers. Structural comparisons imply catalytic activation to be a consequence of the repositioning of MtCM active-site residues on binding to MtDS. The mutagenesis of the C-terminal extrusion of MtCM establishes conserved residues as part of the activation machinery. The chorismate-mutase activity of the complex, but not of MtCM alone, is inhibited synergistically by phenylalanine and tyrosine. The complex formation thus endows the shikimate pathway of M. tuberculosis with an important regulatory feature. Experimental evidence suggests that such non-covalent enzyme complexes comprising an AroQ(delta) subclass chorismate mutase like MtCM are abundant in the bacterial order Actinomycetales.
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- Severin Sasso
- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Kim SK, Reddy SK, Nelson BC, Vasquez GB, Davis A, Howard AJ, Patterson S, Gilliland GL, Ladner JE, Reddy PT. Biochemical and structural characterization of the secreted chorismate mutase (Rv1885c) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv: an *AroQ enzyme not regulated by the aromatic amino acids. J Bacteriol 2007; 188:8638-48. [PMID: 17146044 PMCID: PMC1698256 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00441-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The gene Rv1885c from the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv encodes a monofunctional and secreted chorismate mutase (*MtCM) with a 33-amino-acid cleavable signal sequence; hence, it belongs to the *AroQ class of chorismate mutases. Consistent with the heterologously expressed *MtCM having periplasmic destination in Escherichia coli and the absence of a discrete periplasmic compartment in M. tuberculosis, we show here that *MtCM secretes into the culture filtrate of M. tuberculosis. *MtCM functions as a homodimer and exhibits a dimeric state of the protein at a concentration as low as 5 nM. *MtCM exhibits simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics with a Km of 0.5 +/- 0.05 mM and a k(cat) of 60 s(-1) per active site (at 37 degrees C and pH 7.5). The crystal structure of *MtCM has been determined at 1.7 A resolution (Protein Data Bank identifier 2F6L). The protein has an all alpha-helical structure, and the active site is formed within a single chain without any contribution from the second chain in the dimer. Analysis of the structure shows a novel fold topology for the protein with a topologically rearranged helix containing Arg134. We provide evidence by site-directed mutagenesis that the residues Arg49, Lys60, Arg72, Thr105, Glu109, and Arg134 constitute the catalytic site; the numbering of the residues includes the signal sequence. Our investigation on the effect of phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan on *MtCM shows that *MtCM is not regulated by the aromatic amino acids. Consistent with this observation, the X-ray structure of *MtCM does not have an allosteric regulatory site.
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- Sook-Kyung Kim
- Biochemical Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Mail stop 831.2, Bldg. 227, Room B244, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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DeClue MS, Baldridge KK, Kast P, Hilvert D. Experimental and Computational Investigation of the Uncatalyzed Rearrangement and Elimination Reactions of Isochorismate. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 128:2043-51. [PMID: 16464106 DOI: 10.1021/ja056714x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The versatile biosynthetic intermediate isochorismate decomposes in aqueous buffer by two competitive pathways, one leading to isoprephenate by a facile Claisen rearrangement and the other to salicylate via elimination of the enolpyruvyl side chain. Computation suggests that both processes are concerted but asynchronous pericyclic reactions, with considerable C-O cleavage in the transition state but relatively little C-C bond formation (rearrangement) or hydrogen atom transfer to the enolpyruvyl side chain (elimination). Kinetic experiments show that rearrangement is roughly 8-times more favorable than elimination. Moreover, transfer of the C2 hydrogen atom to C9 was verified by monitoring the decomposition of [2-(2)H]isochorismate, which was prepared chemoenzymatically from labeled shikimate, by (2)H NMR spectroscopy and observing the appearance of [3-(2)H]pyruvate. Finally, the isotope effects obtained with the C2 deuterated substrate are in good agreement with calculations assuming pericyclic reaction mechanisms. These results provide a benchmark for mechanistic investigations of isochorismate mutase and isochorismate pyruvate lyase, the enzymes that respectively catalyze the rearrangement and elimination reactions in plants and bacteria.
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- Michael S DeClue
- Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Wright SK, DeClue MS, Mandal A, Lee L, Wiest O, Cleland WW, Hilvert D. Isotope effects on the enzymatic and nonenzymatic reactions of chorismate. J Am Chem Soc 2005; 127:12957-64. [PMID: 16159290 PMCID: PMC2519010 DOI: 10.1021/ja052929v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The important biosynthetic intermediate chorismate reacts thermally by two competitive pathways, one leading to 4-hydroxybenzoate via elimination of the enolpyruvyl side chain, and the other to prephenate by a facile Claisen rearrangement. Measurements with isotopically labeled chorismate derivatives indicate that both are concerted sigmatropic processes, controlled by the orientation of the enolpyruvyl group. In the elimination reaction of [4-2H]chorismate, roughly 60% of the label was found in pyruvate after 3 h at 60 degrees C. Moreover, a 1.846 +/- 0.057 2H isotope effect for the transferred hydrogen atom and a 1.0374 +/- 0.0005 18O isotope effect for the ether oxygen show that the transition state for this process is highly asymmetric, with hydrogen atom transfer from C4 to C9 significantly less advanced than C-O bond cleavage. In the competing Claisen rearrangement, a very large 18O isotope effect at the bond-breaking position (1.0482 +/- 0.0005) and a smaller 13C isotope effect at the bond-making position (1.0118 +/- 0.0004) were determined. Isotope effects of similar magnitude characterized the transformations catalyzed by evolutionarily unrelated chorismate mutases from Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. The enzymatic reactions, like their solution counterpart, are thus concerted [3,3]-sigmatropic processes in which C-C bond formation lags behind C-O bond cleavage. However, as substantially larger 18O and smaller 13C isotope effects were observed for a mutant enzyme in which chemistry is fully rate determining, the ionic active site may favor a somewhat more polarized transition state than that seen in solution.
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- S Kirk Wright
- Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53726, USA
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Künzler DE, Sasso S, Gamper M, Hilvert D, Kast P. Mechanistic insights into the isochorismate pyruvate lyase activity of the catalytically promiscuous PchB from combinatorial mutagenesis and selection. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:32827-34. [PMID: 16036918 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m506883200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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PchB from Pseudomonas aeruginosa possesses isochorismate pyruvate lyase (IPL) and weak chorismate mutase (CM) activity. Homology modeling based on a structurally characterized CM, coupled with randomization of presumed key active site residues (Arg54, Glu90, Gln91) and in vivo selection for CM activity, was used to derive mechanistic insights into the IPL activity of PchB. Mutation of Arg54 was incompatible with viability, and the CM and IPL activities of an engineered R54K variant were reduced 1,000-fold each. The observation that position 90 was tolerant to substitution but position 91 was essentially confined to Gln or Glu in functional variants rules out involvement of Glu90 in general base catalysis. Counter to the generally accepted mechanistic hypothesis for pyruvate lyases, we propose for PchB a rare [1,5]-sigmatropic reaction mechanism that invokes electrostatic catalysis in analogy to the [3,3]-pericyclic rearrangement of chorismate in CMs. A common catalytic principle for both PchB functions is also supported by the covariance of the catalytic parameters for the CM and IPL activities and the shared functional requirement for a protonated Glu91 in Q91E variants. The experiments demonstrate that focusing directed evolution strategies on the readily accessible surrogate activity of an enzyme can provide valuable insights into the mechanism of the primary reaction.
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- Dominik E Künzler
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Hook DF, Bindschädler P, Mahajan YR, Sebesta R, Kast P, Seebach D. The Proteolytic Stability of ‘Designed’β-Peptides Containingα-Peptide-Bond Mimics and of Mixedα,β-Peptides: Application to the Construction of MHC-Binding Peptides. Chem Biodivers 2005; 2:591-632. [PMID: 17192006 DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.200590039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Whereas alpha-peptides are rapidly degraded in vivo and in vitro by a multitude of peptidases, substrates constructed entirely of or incorporating homologated alpha-amino acid (i.e., beta-amino acid) units exhibit a superior stability profile. Efforts made so far to proteolytically hydrolyze a beta-beta peptide bond have not proved fruitful; a study aimed at breaching this proteolytic stability is discussed here. A series of such bonds have been designed with side-chain groups similar in relative positions (constitution) and three-dimensional arrangements (configuration) as found about alpha-peptidic amide bonds. Increasing the prospect for degradation would permit the tuning of beta-peptide stability; here, however, no cleavage was observed (1, 2, 4-6, Table 1). Peptides comprised of alpha- and beta-amino acids (mixed alpha,beta-peptides, 8-11) are expected to benefit from both recognition by a natural receptor and a high level of proteolytic stability, ideal characteristics of pharmacologically active compounds. Beta3-peptides containing alpha-amino acid moieties at the N-terminus are degraded, albeit slowly, by several peptidases. Of particular interest is the ability of pronase to cleave an alpha-beta peptide bond, namely that of alphaAla-beta3 hAla. Significantly, successful hydrolysis is independent of the configuration of the beta-amino acid. Some of the alpha,beta-peptides discussed here are being investigated for their binding affinities to class I MHC proteins. The computer-programming steps required to prepare alpha,beta-peptides on an automated peptide synthesizer are presented.
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- David F Hook
- Departement für Chemie und Angewandte Biowissenschaften, Laboratorium für Organische Chemie der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, ETH Hönggerberg, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, CH-8093 Zürich
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Sasso S, Ramakrishnan C, Gamper M, Hilvert D, Kast P. Characterization of the secreted chorismate mutase from the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. FEBS J 2005; 272:375-89. [PMID: 15654876 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2004.04478.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The gene encompassing ORF Rv1885c with weak sequence similarity to AroQ chorismate mutases (CMs) was cloned from the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and expressed in Escherichia coli. The gene product (*MtCM) complements a CM-deficient E. coli strain, but only if produced without the predicted N-terminal signal sequence typical of M. tuberculosis. The mature *MtCM, which was purified by exploiting its resistance to irreversible thermal denaturation, possesses high CM activity in vitro. The enzyme follows simple Michaelis-Menten kinetics, having a k(cat) of 50 s(-1) and a K(m) of 180 microM (at 30 degrees C and pH 7.5). *MtCM was shown to be a dimer by analytical ultracentrifugation and size-exclusion chromatography. Secondary-structure prediction and CD spectroscopy confirmed that *MtCM is a member of the all-alpha-helical AroQ class of CMs, but it seems to have a topologically rearranged AroQ fold. Because CMs are normally intracellular metabolic enzymes required for the biosynthesis of phenylalanine and tyrosine, the existence of an exported CM in Gram-positive M. tuberculosis is puzzling. The observation that homologs of *MtCM with a predicted export sequence are generally only present in parasitic or pathogenic organisms suggests that secreted CMs may have evolved to participate in some aspect of parasitism or pathogenesis yet to be unraveled.
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- Severin Sasso
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich (ETH), Switzerland
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Gaille C, Reimmann C, Haas D. Isochorismate synthase (PchA), the first and rate-limiting enzyme in salicylate biosynthesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:16893-8. [PMID: 12624097 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m212324200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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In Pseudomonas aeruginosa the extracellular metabolite and siderophore pyochelin is synthesized from two major precursors, chorismate and l-cysteine via salicylate as an intermediate. The regulatory role of isochorismate synthase, the first enzyme in the pyochelin biosynthetic pathway, was studied. This enzyme is encoded by pchA, the last gene in the pchDCBA operon. The PchA protein was purified to apparent electrophoretic homogeneity from a PchA-overexpressing P. aeruginosa strain. The native enzyme was a 52-kDa monomer in solution, and its activity strictly depended on Mg(2+). At pH 7.0, the optimum, a K(m) = 4.5 microm and a k(cat) = 43.1 min(-1) were determined for chorismate. No feedback inhibitors or other allosteric effectors were found. The intracellular PchA concentration critically determined the rate of salicylate formation both in vitro and in vivo. In cultures grown in iron-limiting media to high cell densities, overexpression of the pchA gene resulted in overproduction of salicylate as well as in enhanced pyochelin formation. From this work and earlier studies, it is proposed that one important factor influencing the flux through the pyochelin biosynthetic pathway is the PchA concentration, which is determined at a transcriptional level, with pyochelin acting as a positive signal and iron as a negative signal.
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- Catherine Gaille
- Institut de Microbiologie Fondamentale, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Gaille C, Kast P, Haas D. Salicylate biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Purification and characterization of PchB, a novel bifunctional enzyme displaying isochorismate pyruvate-lyase and chorismate mutase activities. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:21768-75. [PMID: 11937513 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m202410200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Isochorismate pyruvate-lyase (IPL), the second enzyme of pyochelin biosynthesis and the product of the pchB gene, was purified to homogeneity from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In the reaction catalyzed by this enzyme, isochorismate --> salicylate + pyruvate, no cofactors appear to be required. At the pH optimum (pH 6.8), the enzyme displayed Michaelis-Menten kinetics, with an apparent K(m) of 12.5 microm for isochorismate and a kcat of 106 min(-1), calculated per monomer. The native enzyme behaved as a homodimer, as judged by molecular sieving chromatography, electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions, and cross-linking experiments. PchB has approximately 20% amino acid sequence identity with AroQ-class chorismate mutases (CMs). Chorismate was shown to be converted to prephenate by purified PchB in vitro, with an apparent K(m) of 150 microm and a kcat of 7.8 min(-1). An oxabicyclic diacid transition state analog and well characterized inhibitor of CMs competitively inhibited both IPL and CM activities of PchB. Moreover, a CM-deficient Escherichia coli mutant, which is auxotrophic for phenylalanine and tyrosine, was functionally complemented by the cloned P. aeruginosa pchB gene for growth in minimal medium. A mutant form of PchB, in which isoleucine 88 was changed to threonine, had no detectable IPL activity, but retained wild-type CM activity. In conclusion, the 11.5-kDa subunit of PchB appears to contain a single active site involved in both IPL and CM activity.
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- Catherine Gaille
- Laboratoire de Biologie Microbienne, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Tewari YB, Jensen PY, Kishore N, Mayhew MP, Parsons JF, Eisenstein E, Goldberg RN. Thermodynamics of reactions catalyzed by PABA synthase. Biophys Chem 2002; 96:33-51. [PMID: 11975992 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-4622(02)00034-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Microcalorimetry and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) have been used to conduct a thermodynamic investigation of reactions catalyzed by PABA synthase, the enzyme located at the first step in the shikimic acid metabolic pathway leading from chorismate to 4-aminobenzoate (PABA). The overall biochemical reaction catalyzed by the PabB and PabC components of PABA synthase is: chorismate(aq)+ammonia(aq)=4-aminobenzoate(aq)+pyruvate(aq)+H(2)O(l). This reaction can be divided into two partial reactions involving the intermediate 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate (ADC): chorismate(aq)+ammonia(aq)=ADC(aq)+H(2)O(l) and ADC(aq)=4-aminobenzoate(aq)+pyruvate(aq). Microcalorimetric measurements were performed on all three of these reactions at a temperature of 298.15 K and pH values in the range 8.72-8.77. Equilibrium measurements were performed on the first partial (ADC synthase) reaction at T=298.15 K and at pH=8.78. The saturation molality of 4-aminobenzoate(cr) in water is (0.00382+/-0.0004) mol kg(-1) at T=298.15 K. The results of the equilibrium and calorimetric measurements were analyzed in terms of a chemical equilibrium model that accounts for the multiplicity of ionic states of the reactants and products. These calculations gave thermodynamic quantities at the temperature 298.15 K and an ionic strength of zero for chemical reference reactions involving specific ionic forms. For the reaction: chorismate(2-)(aq)+NH(4)(+)(aq)=ADC(-)(aq)+H(2)O(l), K=(10.8+/-4.2) and Delta(r)H(m)(o)=-(35+/-15) kJ mol(-1). For the reaction: ADC(-)(aq)=4-aminobenzoate(-)(aq)+pyruvate(-)(aq)+H(+)(aq), Delta(r)H(m)(o)=-(139+/-23) kJ mol(-1). For the reaction: chorismate(2-)(aq)+NH(4)(+)(aq)=4-aminobenzoate(-)(aq)+pyruvate(-)(aq)+H(2)O(l)+H(+)(aq), Delta(r)H(m)(o)=-(174+/-6) kJ mol(-1). Thermodynamic cycle calculations were used to calculate thermodynamic quantities for three additional reactions that utilize L-glutamine rather than ammonia and that are pertinent to this branch point of the shikimic acid pathway. The quantities obtained in this study permit the calculation of the position of equilibrium of these reactions as a function of temperature, pH, and ionic strength. Values of the apparent equilibrium constants and the standard transformed Gibbs energy changes Delta(r)G'(m)(o) under approximately physiological conditions are given.
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- Yadu B Tewari
- Biotechnology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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Holden MJ, Mayhew MP, Gallagher DT, Vilker VL. Chorismate lyase: kinetics and engineering for stability. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1594:160-7. [PMID: 11825618 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-4838(01)00302-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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By removing the enolpyruvyl group from chorismate, chorismate lyase (CL) produces p-hydroxybenzoate (p-HB) for the ubiquinone biosynthetic pathway. We have analyzed CL by several spectroscopic and chemical techniques and measured its kinetic (kcat=1.7 s(-1), K(m)=29 microM) and product inhibition parameters (K(p)=2.1 microM for p-HB). Protein aggregation, a serious problem with wild type CL, proved to be primarily due to the presence of two surface-active cysteines, whose chemical modification or mutation (to serines) gave greatly improved solution behavior and minor effects on enzyme activity. CL is strongly inhibited by its product p-HB; for this reason activity and inhibition measurements were analyzed by both initial rate and progress curve methods. The results are consistent, but in this case where the stable enzyme-product complex rapidly becomes the predominant form of the enzyme, progress curve methods are more efficient. We also report inhibition measurements with several substrate and product analogs that give information on ligand binding interactions of the active site. The biological function of the unusual product retention remains uncertain, but may involve a mechanism of directed delivery to the membrane-bound enzyme that follows CL in the ubiquinone pathway.
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- M J Holden
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, Biotechnology Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8312, USA.
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Kast P, Grisostomi C, Chen IA, Li S, Krengel U, Xue Y, Hilvert D. A strategically positioned cation is crucial for efficient catalysis by chorismate mutase. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:36832-8. [PMID: 10960481 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m006351200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Combinatorial mutagenesis and in vivo selection experiments previously afforded functional variants of the AroH class Bacillus subtilis chorismate mutase lacking the otherwise highly conserved active site residue Arg(90). Here, we present a detailed kinetic and crystallographic study of several such variants. Removing the arginine side chain (R90G and R90A) reduced catalytic efficiency by more than 5 orders of magnitude. Reintroducing a positive charge to the active site through lysine substitutions restored more than a factor of a thousand in k(cat). Remarkably, the lysine could be placed at position 90 or at the more remote position 88 provided a sterically suitable residue was present at the partner site. Crystal structures of the double mutants C88S/R90K and C88K/R90S show that the lysine adopts an extended conformation that would place its epsilon-ammonium group within hydrogen-bonding distance of the ether oxygen of bound chorismate in the transition state. These results provide support for the hypothesis that developing negative charge in the highly polarized transition state is stabilized electrostatically by a strategically placed cation. The implications of this finding for the mechanism of all natural chorismate mutases and for the design of artificial catalysts are discussed.
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- P Kast
- Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Gustin DJ, Hilvert D. Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Isotopically Labeled Chorismic Acids. J Org Chem 1999; 64:4935-4938. [PMID: 11674574 DOI: 10.1021/jo9823792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Darin J. Gustin
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037 and Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Mattei P, Kast P, Hilvert D. Bacillus subtilis chorismate mutase is partially diffusion-controlled. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1999; 261:25-32. [PMID: 10103029 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00169.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The effect of viscosogens on the enzyme-catalyzed rearrangement of chorismate to prephenate has been studied. The steady-state parameters kcat and kcat/Km for the monofunctional chorismate mutase from Bacillus subtilis (BsCM) decreased significantly with increasing concentrations of glycerol, whereas the 'sluggish' BsCM mutants C75A and C75S were insensitive to changes in microviscosity. The latter results rule out extraneous interactions of the viscosogen as an explanation for the effects observed with the wild-type enzyme. Additional control experiments show that neither viscosogen-induced shifts in the pH-dependence of the enzyme-catalyzed reaction nor small perturbations of the conformational equilibrium of chorismate can account for the observed effects. Instead, BsCM appears to be limited by substrate binding and product release at low and high substrate concentrations, respectively. Analysis of the kinetic data indicates that diffusive transition states are between 30 and 40% rate-determining in these concentration regimes; the chemical step must contribute to the remaining kinetic barrier. The relatively low value of the 'on' rates for chorismate and prephenate (approximately 2 x 106 m-1.s-1) probably reflects the need for a rare conformation of the enzyme, the ligand, or both for successful binding. Interestingly, the chorismate mutase domain of the bifunctional chorismate mutase-prephenate dehydratase from Escherichia coli, which has steady-state kinetic parameters comparable to those of BsCM but has a much less accessible active site, is insensitive to changes in viscosity and the reaction it catalyses is not diffusion-controlled.
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- P Mattei
- Laboratorium für Organische Chemie, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
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Gustin DJ, Mattei P, Kast P, Wiest O, Lee L, Cleland WW, Hilvert D. Heavy Atom Isotope Effects Reveal a Highly Polarized Transition State for Chorismate Mutase. J Am Chem Soc 1999. [DOI: 10.1021/ja9841759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Darin J. Gustin
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California, 92037 Laboratorium für Organische Chemie Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670 Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue Madison, Wisconsin 53705
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California, 92037 Laboratorium für Organische Chemie Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670 Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue Madison, Wisconsin 53705
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California, 92037 Laboratorium für Organische Chemie Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670 Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue Madison, Wisconsin 53705
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California, 92037 Laboratorium für Organische Chemie Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670 Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue Madison, Wisconsin 53705
| | - Lac Lee
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California, 92037 Laboratorium für Organische Chemie Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670 Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue Madison, Wisconsin 53705
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California, 92037 Laboratorium für Organische Chemie Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670 Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue Madison, Wisconsin 53705
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California, 92037 Laboratorium für Organische Chemie Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670 Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry University of Wisconsin, 1710 University Avenue Madison, Wisconsin 53705
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