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Chen L, Chen Z, Zheng P, Sun J, Zeng AP. Study and reengineering of the binding sites and allosteric regulation of biosynthetic threonine deaminase by isoleucine and valine in Escherichia coli. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2012; 97:2939-49. [PMID: 22669632 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4176-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2012] [Revised: 05/10/2012] [Accepted: 05/13/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Biosynthetic threonine deaminase (TD) is a key enzyme for the synthesis of isoleucine which is allosterically inhibited and activated by Ile and Val, respectively. The binding sites of Ile and Val and the mechanism of their regulations in TD are not clear, but essential for a rational design of efficient productive strain(s) for Ile and related amino acids. In this study, structure-based computational approach and site-directed mutagenesis were combined to identify the potential binding sites of Ile and Val in Escherichia coli TD. Our results demonstrated that each regulatory domain of the TD monomer possesses two nonequivalent effector-binding sites. The residues R362, E442, G445, A446, Y369, I460, and S461 only interact with Ile while E347, G350, and F352 are involved not only in the Ile binding but also in the Val binding. By further considering enzyme kinetic data, we propose a concentration-dependent mechanism of the allosteric regulation of TD by Ile and Val. For the construction of Ile overproducing strain, a novel TD mutant with double mutation of F352A/R362F was also created, which showed both higher activity and much stronger resistance to Ile inhibition comparing to those of wild-type enzyme. Overexpression of this mutant TD in E. coli JW3591 significantly increased the production of ketobutyrate and Ile in comparison to the reference strains overexpressing wild-type TD or the catabolic threonine deaminase (TdcB). This work builds a solid basis for the reengineering of TD and related microorganisms for Ile production.
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- Lin Chen
- Department of Biochemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, People's Republic of China
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Shulman A, Zalyapin E, Vyazmensky M, Yifrach O, Barak Z, Chipman DM. Allosteric regulation of Bacillus subtilis threonine deaminase, a biosynthetic threonine deaminase with a single regulatory domain. Biochemistry 2008; 47:11783-92. [PMID: 18855421 DOI: 10.1021/bi800901n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The enzyme threonine deaminase (TD) is a key regulatory enzyme in the pathway for the biosynthesis of isoleucine. TD is inhibited by its end product, isoleucine, and this effect is countered by valine, the product of a competing biosynthetic pathway. Sequence and structure analyses have revealed that the protomers of many TDs have C-terminal regulatory domains, composed of two ACT-like subdomains, which bind isoleucine and valine, while others have regulatory domains of approximately half the length, composed of only a single ACT-like domain. The regulatory responses of TDs from both long and short sequence varieties appear to have many similarities, but there are significant differences. We describe here the allosteric properties of Bacillus subtilis TD ( bsTD), which belongs to the short variety of TD sequences. We also examine the effects of several mutations in the regulatory domain on the kinetics of the enzyme and its response to effectors. The behavior of bsTD can be analyzed and rationalized using a modified Monod-Wyman-Changeux model. This analysis suggests that isoleucine is a negative effector, and valine is a very weak positive effector, but that at high concentrations valine inhibits activity by competing with threonine for binding to the active site. The behavior of bsTD is contrasted with the allosteric behavior reported for TDs from Escherichia coli and Arabidopsis thaliana, TDs with two subdomains. We suggest a possible evolutionary pathway to the more complex regulatory effects of valine on the activity of TDs of the long sequence variety, e.g., E. coli TD.
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- Anat Shulman
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
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Gallagher DT, Chinchilla D, Lau H, Eisenstein E. Local and global control mechanisms in allosteric threonine deaminase. Methods Enzymol 2004; 380:85-106. [PMID: 15051333 DOI: 10.1016/s0076-6879(04)80004-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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- D Travis Gallagher
- Biotech Division, Chemical Science and Technology Lab, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
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Halgand F, Wessel PM, Laprévote O, Dumas R. Biochemical and mass spectrometric evidence for quaternary structure modifications of plant threonine deaminase induced by isoleucine. Biochemistry 2002; 41:13767-73. [PMID: 12427039 DOI: 10.1021/bi0262348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Arabidopsis thaliana threonine deaminase (TD) is a tetramer composed of identical approximately 59600 Da subunits. TD activity has been shown to be inhibited by isoleucine. This effect is reversed by a large excess of valine. Nondenaturant gel filtration, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry experiments demonstrated that binding of isoleucine on TD induces dimerization of the enzyme, whereas tetramerization is restored by addition of a high valine concentration. Nondenaturant gel filtration and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of the enzyme in the presence of increasing amounts of isoleucine suggest a fast equilibrium between the tetramer and the dimer. Finally, study of TD mutants allowed us to focus on the specific role of each isoleucine-binding site.
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- Frédéric Halgand
- Laboratoire de Spectrométrie de Masse, Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS, 1 Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
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Wessel PM, Graciet E, Douce R, Dumas R. Evidence for two distinct effector-binding sites in threonine deaminase by site-directed mutagenesis, kinetic, and binding experiments. Biochemistry 2000; 39:15136-43. [PMID: 11106492 DOI: 10.1021/bi001625c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A three-dimensional structure comparison between the dimeric regulatory serine-binding domain of Escherichia coli D-3-phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase [Schuller, D. J., Grant, G. A., and Banaszak, L. J. (1995) Nat. Struct. Biol. 2, 69-76] and the regulatory domain of E. coli threonine deaminase [Gallagher, D. T., Gilliland, G. L., Xiao, G., Zondlo, J., Fisher, K. E., Chinchilla, D. , and Eisenstein, E. (1998) Structure 6, 465-475] led us to make the hypothesis that threonine deaminase could have two binding sites per monomer. To test this hypothesis about the corresponding plant enzyme, site-directed mutagenesis was carried out on the recombinant Arabidopsis thaliana threonine deaminase. Kinetic and binding experiments demonstrated for the first time that each regulatory domain of the monomers of A. thaliana threonine deaminase possesses two different effector-binding sites constituted in part by Y449 and Y543. Our results demonstrate that Y449 belongs to a high-affinity binding site whose interaction with a first isoleucine induces conformational modifications yielding a conformer displaying a higher activity and with enhanced ability to bind a second isoleucine on a lower-affinity binding site containing Y543. Isoleucine interaction with this latter binding site is responsible for conformational modifications leading to final inhibition of the enzyme. Y449 interacts with both regulators, isoleucine and valine. However, interaction of valine with the high-affinity binding site induces different conformational modifications leading to reversal of isoleucine binding and reversal of inhibition.
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- P M Wessel
- UMR 1932, Laboratoire Mixte CNRS/INRA/Aventis, 14-20 Rue Pierre Baizet, 69263 Lyon, France
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Chinchilla D, Schwarz FP, Eisenstein E. Amino acid substitutions in the C-terminal regulatory domain disrupt allosteric effector binding to biosynthetic threonine deaminase from Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:23219-24. [PMID: 9722552 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.36.23219] [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: 11/06/2022] Open
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Shifts in the sigmoidal kinetics of allosteric threonine deaminase promoted by isoleucine and valine binding control branched chain amino acid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. A highly conserved alpha-helix in the C-terminal regulatory domain of the tetrameric enzyme was previously implicated in effector binding and feedback inhibition. Double (447, 451) and triple (447, 451, 454) alanine replacements for the conserved amino acids leucine 447, leucine 451, and leucine 454 in this region yield enzyme variants that show increased sigmoidality in steady-state kinetics, and which are less sensitive to the allosteric modifiers isoleucine and valine. Equilibrium binding studies using fluorescence, enzyme kinetic, and calorimetric approaches indicate that the enzyme variants possess reduced affinity for isoleucine and valine, and suggest that heterotropic ligands can bind to the same site to promote their different effects. The increase in sigmoidal kinetics for the mutants relative to wild-type threonine deaminase may be attributable to the elimination of L-threonine binding to the effector sites, which activates the wild-type enzyme. Enzyme kinetic data and isotherms for active site ligand binding to the mutants can be analyzed in terms of a simple two-state model to yield values for allosteric parameters that are consistent with previous estimates based on an expanded two-state model for homotropic cooperativity for threonine deaminase.
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- D Chinchilla
- Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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Eisenstein E, Yu HD, Schwarz FP. Cooperative binding of the feedback modifiers isoleucine and valine to biosynthetic threonine deaminase from Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)43896-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Eisenstein E. Energetics of cooperative ligand binding to the active sites of biosynthetic threonine deaminase from Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)43895-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Möckel B, Eggeling L, Sahm H. Functional and structural analyses of threonine dehydratase from Corynebacterium glutamicum. J Bacteriol 1992; 174:8065-72. [PMID: 1459955 PMCID: PMC207545 DOI: 10.1128/jb.174.24.8065-8072.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Threonine dehydratase activity is an important element in the flux control of isoleucine biosynthesis. The enzyme of Corynebacterium glutamicum demonstrates a marked sigmoidal dependence of initial velocity on the threonine concentration, a dependence that is consistent with substrate-promoted conversion of the enzyme from a low-activity to a high-activity conformation. In the presence of the negative allosteric effector isoleucine, the K0.5 increased from 21 to 78 mM and the cooperativity, as expressed by the Hill coefficient increased from 2.4 to 3.7. Valine promoted opposite effects: the K0.5 was reduced to 12 mM, and the enzyme exhibited almost no cooperativity. Sequence determination of the C. glutamicum gene for this enzyme revealed an open reading frame coding for a polypeptide of 436 amino acids. From this information and the molecular weight determination of the native enzyme, it follows that the dehydratase is a tetramer with a total mass of 186,396 daltons. Comparison of the deduced polypeptide sequence with the sequences of known threonine dehydratases revealed surprising differences from the C. glutamicum enzyme in the carboxy-terminal portion. This portion is greatly reduced in size, and a large gap of 95 amino acids must be introduced to achieve homology. Therefore, the C. glutamicum enzyme must be considered a small variant of threonine dehydratase that is typically controlled by isoleucine and valine but has an altered structure reflecting a topological difference in the portion of the protein most likely to be important for allosteric regulation.
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- B Möckel
- Institut für Biotechnologie, Forschungszentrum, Jülich, Germany
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Borstlap AC, Vernooy-Gerritsen M. In-vivo control of valine and leucine synthesis in the duckweed Spirodela polyrhiza. PLANTA 1985; 164:129-134. [PMID: 24249512 DOI: 10.1007/bf00391038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/1984] [Accepted: 09/13/1984] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Duckweed colonies were grown on 1 l of nutrient solution supplied with 10 μM L-[(14)C]leucine or with 25 μM L-[(14)C]valine. Under these conditions the exogenously supplied amino acid did not inhibit growth, but caused in the plants a moderately increased pool of that amino acid, which remained essentially constant during the culture period. The effect of the increased pool of valine or leucine on the biosynthesis of these amino acids was determined from isotope dilution in the protein-bound valine and-or leucine. An increase in the leucine pool from 1.1 to 5.0 nmol mg(-1) dry weight resulted in a 21% reduction of metabolite flow through the common part of the valine-leucine biosynthetic pathway; leucine synthesis was reduced by 35%, but valine synthesis by only 5% and isoleucine synthesis was apparently unaffected. An increase in the valine pool from 3.2 to 6.6 nmol mg(-1) dry weight reduced the metabolite flow through the valine-leucine pathway by 48%, valine synthesis by 70%, and leucine synthesis from pyruvate by 29%, which was compensated by leucine synthesis from exogenous valine, whereas the synthesis of isoleucine was not changed. It is concluded that the biosynthesis of valine and leucine is mainly controlled by feedback inhibition of acetohydroxyacid synthetase. In vivo, the feedback inhibition can be exerted in such a way that synthesis of acetolactate (the precursor of valine and leucine) is appreciably reduced, whereas synthesis of acetohydroxybutyrate (the isoleucine precursor) is not inhibited.
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- A C Borstlap
- Botanisch Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Lange Nieuwstraat 106, NL-3512 PN, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Faleev N, Martinkova N, Sadovnikova M, Saporovskaya M, Belikov V. The l - and d-threonine dehydratases accompanying l-tyrosine phenol-lyase: selective decomposition of d-threonine in racemic mixture. Enzyme Microb Technol 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/0141-0229(82)90110-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Park L, Datta P. Mechanism of catabolite inactivation of Escherichia coli biodegradative threonine dehydratase by glyoxylate. J Biol Chem 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)69208-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Threonine deaminase from Salmonella typhimurium. Substrate-specific patterns of inhibition in an activator site-deficient form of the enzyme. J Biol Chem 1979. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)34169-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Hofler J, Burns R. Threonine deaminase from Salmonella typhimurium. Effect of regulatory ligands on the binding of substrates and substrate analogues to the active sites and the differentiation of the activator and inhibitor sites from the active sites. J Biol Chem 1978. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)38137-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Markus G, DePasquale J, Wissler F. Quantitative determination of the binding of epsilon-aminocaproic acid to native plasminogen. J Biol Chem 1978. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)38163-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Iaccarino M, Guardiola J, De Felice M, Favre R. Regulation of isoleucine and valine biosynthesis. CURRENT TOPICS IN CELLULAR REGULATION 1978; 14:29-73. [PMID: 365469 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-152814-0.50006-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Feldner J, Grimminger H. Threonine deaminase from a nonsense mutant of Escherichia coli requiring isoleucine or pyridoxine: evidence for half-of-the-sites reactivity. J Bacteriol 1976; 126:100-7. [PMID: 770416 PMCID: PMC233264 DOI: 10.1128/jb.126.1.100-107.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The mutant IP7 of Escherichia coli B requires isoleucine or pyridoxine for growth as a consequence of a mutation in the gene coding for biosynthetic threonine deaminase. The mutation of IP7 was shown to be of the nonsense type by the following data: (1) reversion to isoleucine prototrophy involves the formation of external suppression at a high frequency, as shown by transduction experiments; and (ii) the isoleucine requirement is suppressed by lysogenization with a phage carrying the amber suppressor su-3. Cell extracts of the mutant strain contain a low activity of threonine deaminase. The possibility that this activity is biodegradative was ruled out by kinetic experiments. The mutant threonine deaminase was purified to homogeneity by conventional procedures. The enzyme is a dimer of identical subunits of an approximate molecular weight of 43,000 (Grimminger and Feldner, 1974), whereas the wild-type enzyme is a tetramer of 50,000-dalton subunits (Calhoun et al., 1973; Grimminger et al., 1973). The mutant enzyme is not inhibited by isoleucine and does not bind isoleucine, as shown by equilibrium dialysis experiments. Pyridoxal phosphate enhances the maximum catalytic activity of the mutant enzyme by a factor of five, whereas the wild-type enzyme is not affected. In wild-type and mutant threonine deaminase the ratio of protein subunits and bound pyridoxal phosphate is 2:1. The activation of threonine deaminase from strain IP7 is due to a second coenzyme binding site, as shown by (i) spectrophotometric titration of the enzyme with pyridoxal phosphate and by (ii) measurement the pyridoxal phosphate content of the enzyme after sodium borohydride reduction of the protein. The observation of one pyridoxal phosphate binding site per peptide dimer in the wild-type enzyme and of two binding sites per dimer in the mutant strongly suggests that one of the potential sites in the wild-type enzyme is masked by allosteric effects. The factors responsible for the half-of-the-sites reactivity of the coenzyme sites appear to be nonoperative in the mutant protein.
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