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Judge A, Hu L, Sankaran B, Van Riper J, Venkataram Prasad BV, Palzkill T. Mapping the determinants of catalysis and substrate specificity of the antibiotic resistance enzyme CTX-M β-lactamase. Commun Biol 2023; 6:35. [PMID: 36635385 PMCID: PMC9837174 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04422-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/04/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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CTX-M β-lactamases are prevalent antibiotic resistance enzymes and are notable for their ability to rapidly hydrolyze the extended-spectrum cephalosporin, cefotaxime. We hypothesized that the active site sequence requirements of CTX-M-mediated hydrolysis differ between classes of β-lactam antibiotics. Accordingly, we use codon randomization, antibiotic selection, and deep sequencing to determine the CTX-M active-site residues required for hydrolysis of cefotaxime and the penicillin, ampicillin. The study reveals positions required for hydrolysis of all β-lactams, as well as residues controlling substrate specificity. Further, CTX-M enzymes poorly hydrolyze the extended-spectrum cephalosporin, ceftazidime. We further show that the sequence requirements for ceftazidime hydrolysis follow those of cefotaxime, with the exception that key active-site omega loop residues are not required, and may be detrimental, for ceftazidime hydrolysis. These results provide insights into cephalosporin hydrolysis and demonstrate that changes to the active-site omega loop are likely required for the evolution of CTX-M-mediated ceftazidime resistance.
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- Allison Judge
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Berkeley Center for Structural Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Graduate Program in Chemical, Physical, and Structural Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
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Ivanovic I, Boss R, Romanò A, Guédon E, Le-Loir Y, Luini M, Graber H. Penicillin resistance in bovine Staphylococcus aureus: Genomic evaluation of the discrepancy between phenotypic and molecular test methods. J Dairy Sci 2022; 106:462-475. [DOI: 10.3168/jds.2022-22158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lima LM, Silva BNMD, Barbosa G, Barreiro EJ. β-lactam antibiotics: An overview from a medicinal chemistry perspective. Eur J Med Chem 2020; 208:112829. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2020.112829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 09/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Cifuentes-Castro V, Rodríguez-Almazán C, Silva-Sánchez J, Rudiño-Piñera E. The crystal structure of ESBL TLA-1 in complex with clavulanic acid reveals a second acylation site. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020; 522:545-551. [PMID: 31780261 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.11.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 11/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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β-lactamases are the main molecules responsible for giving bacterial resistance against β-lactam antibiotics. The study of β-lactamases has allowed the development of antibiotics capable of inhibiting these enzymes. In this context, extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) TLA-1 has spread in Escherichia coli and Enterobacter cloacae clinical isolates during the last 30 years in Mexico. In this research, the 3D structures of ESBL TLA-1 and TLA-1 S70G mutant, both ligand-free and in complex with clavulanic acid were determined by X-ray crystallography. Four clavulanic acid molecules were found in the structure of TLA-1, two of those were intermediaries of the acylation process and were localized covalently bound to two different amino acid residues, Ser70 and Ser237. The coordinates of TLA-1 in complex with clavulanic acid shows the existence of a second acylation site, additional to Ser70, which might be extendable to several members of the subclass A β-lactamases family. This is the first time that two serines involved in binding clavulanic acid has been reported and described to an atomic level.
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- Víctor Cifuentes-Castro
- Departamento de Medicina Molecular y Bioprocesos, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, C.P. 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Medicina Molecular y Bioprocesos, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, C.P. 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Centro de Investigación Sobre Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Departamento de Medicina Molecular y Bioprocesos, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, C.P. 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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Bartual SG, Alcorlo M, Martínez-Caballero S, Molina R, Hermoso JA. Three-dimensional structures of Lipoproteins from Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus. Int J Med Microbiol 2018; 308:692-704. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2017.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2017] [Revised: 10/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Pan X, He Y, Lei J, Huang X, Zhao Y. Crystallographic Snapshots of Class A β-Lactamase Catalysis Reveal Structural Changes That Facilitate β-Lactam Hydrolysis. J Biol Chem 2017; 292:4022-4033. [PMID: 28100776 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m116.764340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Revised: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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β-Lactamases confer resistance to β-lactam-based antibiotics. There is great interest in understanding their mechanisms to enable the development of β-lactamase-specific inhibitors. The mechanism of class A β-lactamases has been studied extensively, revealing Lys-73 and Glu-166 as general bases that assist the catalytic residue Ser-70. However, the specific roles of these two residues within the catalytic cycle remain not fully understood. To help resolve this, we first identified an E166H mutant that is functional but is kinetically slow. We then carried out time-resolved crystallographic study of a full cycle of the catalytic reaction. We obtained structures that represent apo, ES*-acylation, and ES*-deacylation states and analyzed the conformational changes of His-166. The "in" conformation in the apo structure allows His-166 to form a hydrogen bond with Lys-73. The unexpected "flipped-out" conformation of His-166 in the ES*-acylation structure was further examined by molecular dynamics simulations, which suggested deprotonated Lys-73 serving as the general base for acylation. The "revert-in" conformation in the ES*-deacylation structure aligns His-166 toward the water molecule that hydrolyzes the acyl adduct. Finally, when the acyl adduct is fully hydrolyzed, His-166 rotates back to the "in" conformation of the apo-state, restoring the Lys-73/His-166 interaction. Using His-166 as surrogate, our study identifies distinct conformational changes within the active site during catalysis. We suggest that the native Glu-166 executes similar changes in a less constricted way. Taken together, this structural series improves our understanding of β-lactam hydrolysis in this important class of enzymes.
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- Xuehua Pan
- From the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.,the Shenzhen Research Institute, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, and
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- From the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- the Department of Chemistry, Center of Systems Biology and Human Health, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- the Department of Chemistry, Center of Systems Biology and Human Health, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
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- From the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, State Key Laboratory of Chirosciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong,
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Zou T, Risso VA, Gavira JA, Sanchez-Ruiz JM, Ozkan SB. Evolution of conformational dynamics determines the conversion of a promiscuous generalist into a specialist enzyme. Mol Biol Evol 2014; 32:132-43. [PMID: 25312912 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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β-Lactamases are produced by many modern bacteria as a mechanism of resistance toward β-lactam antibiotics, the most common antibiotics in use. β-Lactamases, however, are ancient enzymes that originated billions of years ago. Recently, proteins corresponding to 2- to 3-Gy-old Precambrian nodes in the evolution of Class A β-lactamases have been prepared and shown to be moderately efficient promiscuous catalysts, able to degrade a variety of antibiotics with catalytic efficiency levels similar to those of an average modern enzyme. Remarkably, there are few structural differences (in particular at the active-site regions) between the resurrected enzymes and a penicillin-specialist modern β-lactamase. Here, we propose that the ancestral promiscuity originates from conformational dynamics. We investigate the differences in conformational dynamics of the ancient and extant β-lactamases through MD simulations and quantify the contribution of each position to functionally related dynamics through Dynamic Flexibility Index. The modern TEM-1 lactamase shows a comparatively rigid active-site region, likely reflecting adaptation for efficient degradation of a specific substrate (penicillin), whereas enhanced deformability at the active-site neighborhood in the ancestral resurrected proteins likely accounts for the binding and subsequent degradation of antibiotic molecules of different size and shape. Clustering of the conformational dynamics on the basis of Principal Component Analysis is in agreement with the functional divergence, as the ancient β-lactamases cluster together, separated from their modern descendant. Finally, our analysis leads to testable predictions, as sites of potential relevance for the evolution of dynamics are identified and mutations at those sites are expected to alter substrate-specificity.
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- Taisong Zou
- Center for Biological Physics, Department of Physics, Arizona State University
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad de Granada), Granada, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Center for Biological Physics, Department of Physics, Arizona State University
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Chakraborty S. Enumerating pathways of proton abstraction based on a spatial and electrostatic analysis of residues in the catalytic site. PLoS One 2012; 7:e39577. [PMID: 22745790 PMCID: PMC3379984 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Accepted: 05/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The pathways of proton abstraction (PA), a key aspect of most catalytic reactions, is often controversial and highly debated. Ultrahigh-resolution diffraction studies, molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics and molecular mechanic simulations are often adopted to gain insights in the PA mechanisms in enzymes. These methods require expertise and effort to setup and can be computationally intensive. We present a push button methodology--Proton abstraction Simulation (PRISM)--to enumerate the possible pathways of PA in a protein with known 3D structure based on the spatial and electrostatic properties of residues in the proximity of a given nucleophilic residue. Proton movements are evaluated in the vicinity of this nucleophilic residue based on distances, potential differences, spatial channels and characteristics of the individual residues (polarity, acidic, basic, etc). Modulating these parameters eliminates their empirical nature and also might reveal pathways that originate from conformational changes. We have validated our method using serine proteases and concurred with the dichotomy in PA in Class A β-lactamases, both of which are hydrolases. The PA mechanism in a transferase has also been corroborated. The source code is made available at www.sanchak.com/prism.
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- Sandeep Chakraborty
- Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
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Brown NG, Chow DC, Sankaran B, Zwart P, Prasad BVV, Palzkill T. Analysis of the binding forces driving the tight interactions between beta-lactamase inhibitory protein-II (BLIP-II) and class A beta-lactamases. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:32723-35. [PMID: 21775426 PMCID: PMC3173220 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.265058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2011] [Revised: 06/25/2011] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
β-Lactamases hydrolyze β-lactam antibiotics to provide drug resistance to bacteria. β-Lactamase inhibitory protein-II (BLIP-II) is a potent proteinaceous inhibitor that exhibits low picomolar affinity for class A β-lactamases. This study examines the driving forces for binding between BLIP-II and β-lactamases using a combination of presteady state kinetics, isothermal titration calorimetry, and x-ray crystallography. The measured dissociation rate constants for BLIP-II and various β-lactamases ranged from 10(-4) to 10(-7) s(-1) and are comparable with those found in some of the tightest known protein-protein interactions. The crystal structures of BLIP-II alone and in complex with Bacillus anthracis Bla1 β-lactamase revealed no significant side-chain movement in BLIP-II in the complex versus the monomer. The structural rigidity of BLIP-II minimizes the loss of the entropy upon complex formation and, as indicated by thermodynamics experiments, may be a key determinant of the observed potent inhibition of β-lactamases.
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- Nicholas G. Brown
- From the Departments of Pharmacology
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and
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- The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- The Berkeley Center for Structural Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and
- Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 and
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- From the Departments of Pharmacology
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and
- Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030 and
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Brown NG, Shanker S, Prasad BVV, Palzkill T. Structural and biochemical evidence that a TEM-1 beta-lactamase N170G active site mutant acts via substrate-assisted catalysis. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:33703-12. [PMID: 19812041 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m109.053819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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TEM-1 beta-lactamase is the most common plasmid-encoded beta-lactamase in Gram-negative bacteria and is a model class A enzyme. The active site of class A beta-lactamases share several conserved residues including Ser(70), Glu(166), and Asn(170) that coordinate a hydrolytic water involved in deacylation. Unlike Ser(70) and Glu(166), the functional significance of residue Asn(170) is not well understood even though it forms hydrogen bonds with both Glu(166) and the hydrolytic water. The goal of this study was to examine the importance of Asn(170) for catalysis and substrate specificity of beta-lactam antibiotic hydrolysis. The codon for position 170 was randomized to create a library containing all 20 possible amino acids. The random library was introduced into Escherichia coli, and functional clones were selected on agar plates containing ampicillin. DNA sequencing of the functional clones revealed that only asparagine (wild type) and glycine at this position are consistent with wild-type function. The determination of kinetic parameters for several substrates revealed that the N170G mutant is very efficient at hydrolyzing substrates that contain a primary amine in the antibiotic R-group that would be close to the Asn(170) side chain in the acyl-intermediate. In addition, the x-ray structure of the N170G enzyme indicated that the position of an active site water important for deacylation is altered compared with the wild-type enzyme. Taken together, the results suggest the N170G TEM-1 enzyme hydrolyzes ampicillin efficiently because of substrate-assisted catalysis where the primary amine of the ampicillin R-group positions the hydrolytic water and allows for efficient deacylation.
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- Nicholas G Brown
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
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Hermann JC, Pradon J, Harvey JN, Mulholland AJ. High Level QM/MM Modeling of the Formation of the Tetrahedral Intermediate in the Acylation of Wild Type and K73A Mutant TEM-1 Class A β-Lactamase. J Phys Chem A 2009; 113:11984-94. [DOI: 10.1021/jp9037254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Johannes C. Hermann
- Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K., and Roche Palo Alto LLC, 3431 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304
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- Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K., and Roche Palo Alto LLC, 3431 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304
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- Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K., and Roche Palo Alto LLC, 3431 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304
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- Centre for Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K., and Roche Palo Alto LLC, 3431 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304
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Schneider KD, Bethel CR, Distler AM, Hujer AM, Bonomo RA, Leonard DA. Mutation of the active site carboxy-lysine (K70) of OXA-1 beta-lactamase results in a deacylation-deficient enzyme. Biochemistry 2009; 48:6136-45. [PMID: 19485421 DOI: 10.1021/bi900448u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
Abstract
Class D beta-lactamases hydrolyze beta-lactam antibiotics by using an active site serine nucleophile to form a covalent acyl-enzyme intermediate and subsequently employ water to deacylate the beta-lactam and release product. Class D beta-lactamases are carboxylated on the epsilon-amino group of an active site lysine, with the resulting carbamate functional group serving as a general base. We discovered that substitutions of the active site serine and lysine in OXA-1 beta-lactamase, a monomeric class D enzyme, significantly disrupt catalytic turnover. Substitution of glycine for the nucleophilic serine (S67G) results in an enzyme that can still bind substrate but is unable to form a covalent acyl-enzyme intermediate. Substitution of the carboxylated lysine (K70), on the other hand, results in enzyme that can be acylated by substrate but is impaired with respect to deacylation. We employed the fluorescent penicillin BOCILLIN FL to show that three different substitutions for K70 (alanine, aspartate, and glutamate) lead to the accumulation of significant acyl-enzyme intermediate. Interestingly, BOCILLIN FL deacylation rates (t(1/2)) vary depending on the identity of the substituting residue, from approximately 60 min for K70A to undetectable deacylation for K70D. Tryptophan fluorescence spectroscopy was used to confirm that these results are applicable to natural (i.e., nonfluorescent) substrates. Deacylation by K70A, but not K70D or K70E, can be partially restored by the addition of short-chain carboxylic acid mimetics of the lysine carbamate. In conclusion, we establish the functional role of the carboxylated lysine in OXA-1 and highlight its specific role in acylation and deacylation.
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- Kyle D Schneider
- Department of Chemistry, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan 49401, USA
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Fenollar-Ferrer C, Frau J, Donoso J, Muñoz F. Evolution of class C β-lactamases: factors influencing their hydrolysis and recognition mechanisms. Theor Chem Acc 2008. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-008-0463-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Golemi-Kotra D, Meroueh SO, Kim C, Vakulenko SB, Bulychev A, Stemmler AJ, Stemmler TL, Mobashery S. The importance of a critical protonation state and the fate of the catalytic steps in class A beta-lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:34665-73. [PMID: 15152012 PMCID: PMC3371256 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m313143200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Beta-lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins are bacterial enzymes involved in antibiotic resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics and biosynthetic assembly of cell wall, respectively. Members of these large families of enzymes all experience acylation by their respective substrates at an active site serine as the first step in their catalytic activities. A Ser-X-X-Lys sequence motif is seen in all these proteins, and crystal structures demonstrate that the side-chain functions of the serine and lysine are in contact with one another. Three independent methods were used in this report to address the question of the protonation state of this important lysine (Lys-73) in the TEM-1 beta-lactamase from Escherichia coli. These techniques included perturbation of the pK(a) of Lys-73 by the study of the gamma-thialysine-73 variant and the attendant kinetic analyses, investigation of the protonation state by titration of specifically labeled proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance, and by computational treatment using the thermodynamic integration method. All three methods indicated that the pK(a) of Lys-73 of this enzyme is attenuated to 8.0-8.5. It is argued herein that the unique ground-state ion pair of Glu-166 and Lys-73 of class A beta-lactamases has actually raised the pK(a) of the active site lysine to 8.0-8.5 from that of the parental penicillin-binding protein. Whereas we cannot rule out that Glu-166 might activate the active site water, which in turn promotes Ser-70 for the acylation event, such as proposed earlier, we would like to propose as a plausible alternative for the acylation step the possibility that the ion pair would reconfigure to the protonated Glu-166 and unprotonated Lys-73. As such, unprotonated Lys-73 could promote serine for acylation, a process that should be shared among all active-site serine beta-lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins.
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- Dasantila Golemi-Kotra
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202
- To whom correspondence may be addressed: Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202. Tel.: 313-577-5712; Fax: 313-577-2765;
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
- To whom correspondence may be addressed: Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, 423 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556. Tel.: 574-631-2933; Fax: 574-631-6652;
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Xie L, Liu H, Yang W. Adapting the nudged elastic band method for determining minimum-energy paths of chemical reactions in enzymes. J Chem Phys 2004; 120:8039-52. [PMID: 15267723 DOI: 10.1063/1.1691404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Optimization of reaction paths for enzymatic systems is a challenging problem because such systems have a very large number of degrees of freedom and many of these degrees are flexible. To meet this challenge, an efficient, robust and general approach is presented based on the well-known nudged elastic band reaction path optimization method with the following extensions: (1) soft spectator degrees of freedom are excluded from path definitions by using only inter-atomic distances corresponding to forming/breaking bonds in a reaction; (2) a general transformation of the distances is defined to treat multistep reactions without knowing the partitioning of steps in advance; (3) a multistage strategy, in which path optimizations are carried out for reference systems with gradually decreasing rigidity, is developed to maximize the opportunity of obtaining continuously changing environments along the path. We demonstrate the applicability of the approach using the acylation reaction of type A beta-lactamase as an example. The reaction mechanism investigated involves four elementary reaction steps, eight forming/breaking bonds. We obtained a continuous minimum energy path without any assumption on reaction coordinates, or on the possible sequence or the concertedness of chemical events. We expect our approach to have general applicability in the modeling of enzymatic reactions with quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical models.
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- Li Xie
- School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230027, China
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Nukaga M, Mayama K, Hujer AM, Bonomo RA, Knox JR. Ultrahigh resolution structure of a class A beta-lactamase: on the mechanism and specificity of the extended-spectrum SHV-2 enzyme. J Mol Biol 2003; 328:289-301. [PMID: 12684014 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(03)00210-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Bacterial beta-lactamases hydrolyze beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillins and cephalosporins. The TEM-type class A beta-lactamase SHV-2 is a natural variant that exhibits activity against third-generation cephalosporins normally resistant to hydrolysis by class A enzymes. SHV-2 contains a single Gly238Ser change relative to the wild-type enzyme SHV-1. Crystallographic refinement of a model including hydrogen atoms gave R and R(free) of 12.4% and 15.0% for data to 0.91 A resolution. The hydrogen atom on the O(gamma) atom of the reactive Ser70 is clearly seen for the first time, bridging to the water molecule activated by Glu166. Though hydrogen atoms on the nearby Lys73 are not seen, this observation of the Ser70 hydrogen atom and the hydrogen bonding pattern around Lys73 indicate that Lys73 is protonated. These findings support a role for the Glu166-water couple, rather than Lys73, as the general base in the deprotonation of Ser70 in the acylation process of class A beta-lactamases. Overlay of SHV-2 with SHV-1 shows a significant 1-3 A displacement in the 238-242 beta-strand-turn segment, making the beta-lactam binding site more open to newer cephalosporins with large C7 substituents and thereby expanding the substrate spectrum of the variant enzyme. The OH group of the buried Ser238 side-chain hydrogen bonds to the main-chain CO of Asn170 on the Omega loop, that is unaltered in position relative to SHV-1. This structural role for Ser238 in protein-protein binding makes less likely its hydrogen bonding to oximino cephalosporins such as cefotaxime or ceftazidime.
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- Michiyoshi Nukaga
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3125, USA
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Massova I, Kollman PA. pKa, MM, and QM studies of mechanisms of beta-lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins: acylation step. J Comput Chem 2002; 23:1559-76. [PMID: 12395425 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.10129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The acylation step of the catalytic mechanism of beta-lactamases and penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) has been studied with various approaches. The methods applied range from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to multiple titration calculations using the Poisson-Boltzmann approach to quantum mechanical (QM) methods. The mechanism of class A beta-lactamases was investigated in the greatest detail. Most approaches support the critical role of Glu-166 and hydrolytic water in the acylation step of the enzymatic catalysis in class A beta-lactamases. The details of the catalytic mechanism have been revealed by the QM approach, which clearly pointed out the critical role of Glu-166 acting as a general base in the acylation step with preferred substrates. Lys-73 shuffles a proton abstracted by Glu-166 O(epsilon ) to the beta-lactam nitrogen through Ser-130 hydroxyl. This proton is transferred from O(gamma) of the catalytic Ser-70 through the bridging hydrolytic water to Glu-166 O(epsilon ). Then the hydrogen is simultaneously passed through S(N)2 inversion mechanism at Lys-73 N(zeta) to Ser-130 O(gamma), which loses its proton to the beta-lactam nitrogen. The protonation of beta-lactam nitrogen proceeds with an immediate ring opening and collapse of the first tetrahedral species into an acyl-enzyme intermediate. However, the studies that considered the effect of solvation lower the barrier for the pathway, which utilizes Lys-73 as a general base, thus creating a possibility of multiple mechanisms for the acylation step in the class A beta-lactamases. These findings help explain the exceptional efficiency of these enzymes. They emphasize an important role of Glu-166, Lys-73, and Ser-130 for enzymatic catalysis and shed light on details of the acylation step of class A beta-lactamase mechanism. The acylation step for class C beta-lactamases and six classes of PBPs were also considered with continuum solvent models and MD simulations.
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- Irina Massova
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0446, USA.
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Majiduddin FK, Materon IC, Palzkill TG. Molecular analysis of beta-lactamase structure and function. Int J Med Microbiol 2002; 292:127-37. [PMID: 12195735 DOI: 10.1078/1438-4221-00198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The extensive and sometimes irresponsible use of beta-lactam antibiotics in clinical and agricultural settings has contributed to the emergence and widespread dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Bacteria have evolved three strategies to escape the activity of beta-lactam antibiotics: 1) alteration of the target site (e.g. penicillin-binding protein (PBPs), 2) reduction of drug permeation across the bacterial membrane (e.g. efflux pumps) and 3) production of beta-lactamase enzymes. The beta-lactamase enzymes inactivate beta-lactam antibiotics by hydrolyzing the peptide bond of the characteristic four-membered beta-lactam ring rendering the antibiotic ineffective. The inactivation of the antibiotic provides resistance to the bacterium. Currently, there are over 300 beta-lactamase enzymes described for which numerous kinetic, structural, computational and mutagenesis studies have been performed. In this review, we discuss the recent work performed on the four different classes (A, B, C, and D) of beta-lactamases. These investigative advances further expand our knowledge about these complex enzymes, and hopefully, will provide us with additional tools to develop new inhibitors and antibiotics based on structural and rational designs.
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- Fahd K Majiduddin
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Juers DH, Matthews BW. Reversible lattice repacking illustrates the temperature dependence of macromolecular interactions. J Mol Biol 2001; 311:851-62. [PMID: 11518535 DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.4891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Flash-freezing, which has become routine in macromolecular X-ray crystallography, causes the crystal to contract substantially. In the case of Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase the changes are reversible and are shown to be due to lattice repacking. On cooling, the area of the protein surface involved in lattice contacts increases by 50 %. There are substantial alterations in intermolecular contacts, these changes being dominated by the long, polar side-chains. For entropic reasons such side-chains, as well as surface solvent molecules, tend to be somewhat disordered at room temperature but can form extensive hydrogen-bonded networks on cooling. Low-temperature density measurements suggest that, at least in some cases, the beneficial effect of cryosolvents may be due to a density increase on vitrification which reduces the volume of bulk solvent that needs to be expelled from the crystal. Analysis of beta-galactosidase and several other proteins suggests that both intramolecular and intermolecular contact interfaces can be perturbed by cryocooling but that the changes tend to be more dramatic in the latter case. The temperature-dependence of the intermolecular interactions suggests that caution may be necessary in interpreting protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions based on low-temperature crystal structures.
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- D H Juers
- Institute of Molecular Biology Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Physics, 1229 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229, USA
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Peracchi A. Enzyme catalysis: removing chemically 'essential' residues by site-directed mutagenesis. Trends Biochem Sci 2001; 26:497-503. [PMID: 11504626 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0004(01)01911-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Enzymatic catalysis relies on the action of the amino acid side chains arrayed in the enzyme active sites. Usually, only two or three 'essential' residues are directly involved in the bond making and breaking steps leading to product formation. For the past 20 years, enzymologists have been addressing the role of such residues by changing them into chemically inert side chains. Removal of an 'essential' group often does not abolish activity, but can significantly alter the catalytic mechanism. Such results underscore the sophistication of enzyme catalysis and the functional plasticity of enzyme active sites.
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- A Peracchi
- Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Parma, 43100, Parma, Italy.
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Alvarez-Idaboy J, González-Jonte R, Hernández-Laguna A, Smeyers Y. Reaction mechanism of the acyl-enzyme formation in β-lactam hydrolysis by means of quantum chemical modeling. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0166-1280(00)00351-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Matagne A, Lamotte-Brasseur J, Frère JM. Catalytic properties of class A beta-lactamases: efficiency and diversity. Biochem J 1998; 330 ( Pt 2):581-98. [PMID: 9480862 PMCID: PMC1219177 DOI: 10.1042/bj3300581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 276] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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beta-Lactamases are the main cause of bacterial resistance to penicillins, cephalosporins and related beta-lactam compounds. These enzymes inactivate the antibiotics by hydrolysing the amide bond of the beta-lactam ring. Class A beta-lactamases are the most widespread enzymes and are responsible for numerous failures in the treatment of infectious diseases. The introduction of new beta-lactam compounds, which are meant to be 'beta-lactamase-stable' or beta-lactamase inhibitors, is thus continuously challenged either by point mutations in the ubiquitous TEM and SHV plasmid-borne beta-lactamase genes or by the acquisition of new genes coding for beta-lactamases with different catalytic properties. On the basis of the X-ray crystallography structures of several class A beta-lactamases, including that of the clinically relevant TEM-1 enzyme, it has become possible to analyse how particular structural changes in the enzyme structures might modify their catalytic properties. However, despite the many available kinetic, structural and mutagenesis data, the factors explaining the diversity of the specificity profiles of class A beta-lactamases and their amazing catalytic efficiency have not been thoroughly elucidated. The detailed understanding of these phenomena constitutes the cornerstone for the design of future generations of antibiotics.
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- A Matagne
- Centre for Protein Engineering and Laboratoire d'Enzymologie, Université de Liège, Institut de Chimie B6, 4000 Liège (Sart Tilman), Belgium
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Wladkowski BD, Chenoweth SA, Sanders JN, Krauss M, Stevens WJ. Acylation of β-Lactams by Class A β-Lactamase: An ab Initio Theoretical Study on the Effects of the Oxy-Anion Hole. J Am Chem Soc 1997. [DOI: 10.1021/ja963678g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Brian D. Wladkowski
- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Western Maryland College, Two College Hill, Westminster, Maryland 21157, and Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Western Maryland College, Two College Hill, Westminster, Maryland 21157, and Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Western Maryland College, Two College Hill, Westminster, Maryland 21157, and Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Western Maryland College, Two College Hill, Westminster, Maryland 21157, and Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850
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- Contribution from the Department of Chemistry, Western Maryland College, Two College Hill, Westminster, Maryland 21157, and Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850
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