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Zhang DK, Song KY, Yan YQ, Zheng JT, Xu J, Da LT, Xu MJ. Structural and mechanistic investigations on CC bond forming α-oxoamine synthase allowing L-glutamate as substrate. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 268:131696. [PMID: 38642679 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2024] [Revised: 03/23/2024] [Accepted: 04/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/22/2024]
Abstract
Carbon‑carbon (C-C) bonds serve as the fundamental structural backbone of organic molecules. As a critical CC bond forming enzyme, α-oxoamine synthase is responsible for the synthesis of α-amino ketones by performing the condensation reaction between amino acids and acyl-CoAs. We previously identified an α-oxoamine synthase (AOS), named as Alb29, involved in albogrisin biosynthesis in Streptomyces albogriseolus MGR072. This enzyme belongs to the α-oxoamine synthase family, a subfamily under the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) dependent enzyme superfamily. In this study, we report the crystal structures of Alb29 bound to PLP and L-Glu, which provide the atomic-level structural insights into the substrate recognition by Alb29. We discover that Alb29 can catalyze the amino transformation from L-Gln to L-Glu, besides the condensation of L-Glu with β-methylcrotonyl coenzyme A. Subsequent structural analysis has revealed that one flexible loop in Alb29 plays an important role in both amino transformation and condensation. Based on the crystal structure of the S87G mutant in the loop region, we capture two distinct conformations of the flexible loop in the active site, compared with the wild-type Alb29. Our study offers valuable insights into the catalytic mechanism underlying substrate recognition of Alb29.
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- Dai-Ke Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China.
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China.
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Yien YY, Perfetto M. Regulation of Heme Synthesis by Mitochondrial Homeostasis Proteins. Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:895521. [PMID: 35832791 PMCID: PMC9272004 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.895521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2022] [Accepted: 05/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Heme plays a central role in diverse, life-essential processes that range from ubiquitous, housekeeping pathways such as respiration, to highly cell-specific ones such as oxygen transport by hemoglobin. The regulation of heme synthesis and its utilization is highly regulated and cell-specific. In this review, we have attempted to describe how the heme synthesis machinery is regulated by mitochondrial homeostasis as a means of coupling heme synthesis to its utilization and to the metabolic requirements of the cell. We have focused on discussing the regulation of mitochondrial heme synthesis enzymes by housekeeping proteins, transport of heme intermediates, and regulation of heme synthesis by macromolecular complex formation and mitochondrial metabolism. Recently discovered mechanisms are discussed in the context of the model organisms in which they were identified, while more established work is discussed in light of technological advancements.
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Zhou T, Gao D, Li JX, Xu MJ, Xu J. Identification of an α-Oxoamine Synthase and a One-Pot Two-Step Enzymatic Synthesis of α-Amino Ketones. Org Lett 2020; 23:37-41. [PMID: 33284636 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c03600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Alb29, an α-oxoamine synthase involved in albogrisin biosynthesis in Streptomyces albogriseolus MGR072, was characterized and responsible for the incorporation of l-glutamate to acyl-coenzyme A substrates. Combined with Alb29 and Mgr36 (an acyl-coenzyme A ligase), a one-pot enzymatic system was established to synthesize seven α-amino ketones. When these α-amino ketones were fed into the alb29 knockout strain Δalb29, respectively, the albogrisin analogs with different side chains were observed.
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- Ting Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China.,Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), Shanghai Centre for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
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Araújo ARD, Melo T, Maciel EA, Pereira C, Morais CM, Santinha DR, Tavares JF, Oliveira H, Jurado AS, Costa V, Domingues P, Domingues MRM, Santos MAS. Errors in protein synthesis increase the level of saturated fatty acids and affect the overall lipid profiles of yeast. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0202402. [PMID: 30148852 PMCID: PMC6110467 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 08/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
The occurrence of protein synthesis errors (mistranslation) above the typical mean mistranslation level of 10−4 is mostly deleterious to yeast, zebrafish and mammal cells. Previous yeast studies have shown that mistranslation affects fitness and deregulates genes related to lipid metabolism, but there is no experimental proof that such errors alter yeast lipid profiles. We engineered yeast strains to misincorporate serine at alanine and glycine sites on a global scale and evaluated the putative effects on the lipidome. Lipids from whole cells were extracted and analysed by thin layer chromatography (TLC), liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry(LC-MS) and gas chromatography (GC). Oxidative damage, fatty acid desaturation and membrane fluidity changes were screened to identify putative alterations in lipid profiles in both logarithmic (fermentative) and post-diauxic shift (respiratory) phases. There were alterations in several lipid classes, namely lyso-phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidic acid, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylserine, and triglyceride, and in the fatty acid profiles, namely C16:1, C16:0, C18:1 and C18:0. Overall, the relative content of lipid species with saturated FA increased in detriment of those with unsaturated fatty acids. The expression of the OLE1 mRNA was deregulated, but phospholipid fluidity changes were not observed. These data expand current knowledge of mistranslation biology and highlight its putative roles in human diseases.
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- Ana Rita D. Araújo
- Department of Medical Sciences and Institute of Biomedicine–iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Mass Spectrometry Center, Department of Chemistry, QOPNA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Mass Spectrometry Center, Department of Chemistry, QOPNA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Mass Spectrometry Center, Department of Chemistry, QOPNA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- Department of Biology, CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- i3S, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- IBMC, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CNC, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Mass Spectrometry Center, Department of Chemistry, QOPNA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Medical Sciences and Institute of Biomedicine–iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Laboratory of Biotechnology and Cytomics, Department of Biology, CESAM, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- CNC, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- i3S, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- IBMC, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Departamento de Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Mass Spectrometry Center, Department of Chemistry, QOPNA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Mass Spectrometry Center, Department of Chemistry, QOPNA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- * E-mail: (MASS); (MRMD)
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- Department of Medical Sciences and Institute of Biomedicine–iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
- * E-mail: (MASS); (MRMD)
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Hanh NPK, Hwang JY, Oh HR, Kim GJ, Choi H, Nam DH. Biosynthesis of 2-amino-3-hydroxycyclopent-2-enone moiety of bafilomycin in Kitasatospora cheerisanensis KCTC2395. J Microbiol 2018; 56:571-578. [DOI: 10.1007/s12275-018-8267-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 06/11/2018] [Accepted: 06/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Brown BL, Kardon JR, Sauer RT, Baker TA. Structure of the Mitochondrial Aminolevulinic Acid Synthase, a Key Heme Biosynthetic Enzyme. Structure 2018; 26:580-589.e4. [PMID: 29551290 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2018.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Revised: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 02/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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5-Aminolevulinic acid synthase (ALAS) catalyzes the first step in heme biosynthesis. We present the crystal structure of a eukaryotic ALAS from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this homodimeric structure, one ALAS subunit contains covalently bound cofactor, pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP), whereas the second is PLP free. Comparison between the subunits reveals PLP-coupled reordering of the active site and of additional regions to achieve the active conformation of the enzyme. The eukaryotic C-terminal extension, a region altered in multiple human disease alleles, wraps around the dimer and contacts active-site-proximal residues. Mutational analysis demonstrates that this C-terminal region that engages the active site is important for ALAS activity. Our discovery of structural elements that change conformation upon PLP binding and of direct contact between the C-terminal extension and the active site thus provides a structural basis for investigation of disruptions in the first step of heme biosynthesis and resulting human disorders.
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- Breann L Brown
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Fratz-Berilla EJ, Breydo L, Gouya L, Puy H, Uversky VN, Ferreira GC. Isoniazid inhibits human erythroid 5-aminolevulinate synthase: Molecular mechanism and tolerance study with four X-linked protoporphyria patients. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2017; 1863:428-439. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2016.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Revised: 10/19/2016] [Accepted: 11/08/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Kardon JR, Yien YY, Huston NC, Branco DS, Hildick-Smith GJ, Rhee KY, Paw BH, Baker TA. Mitochondrial ClpX Activates a Key Enzyme for Heme Biosynthesis and Erythropoiesis. Cell 2016; 161:858-67. [PMID: 25957689 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2014] [Revised: 01/15/2015] [Accepted: 03/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The mitochondrion maintains and regulates its proteome with chaperones primarily inherited from its bacterial endosymbiont ancestor. Among these chaperones is the AAA+ unfoldase ClpX, an important regulator of prokaryotic physiology with poorly defined function in the eukaryotic mitochondrion. We observed phenotypic similarity in S. cerevisiae genetic interaction data between mitochondrial ClpX (mtClpX) and genes contributing to heme biosynthesis, an essential mitochondrial function. Metabolomic analysis revealed that 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), the first heme precursor, is 5-fold reduced in yeast lacking mtClpX activity and that total heme is reduced by half. mtClpX directly stimulates ALA synthase in vitro by catalyzing incorporation of its cofactor, pyridoxal phosphate. This activity is conserved in mammalian homologs; additionally, mtClpX depletion impairs vertebrate erythropoiesis, which requires massive upregulation of heme biosynthesis to supply hemoglobin. mtClpX, therefore, is a widely conserved stimulator of an essential biosynthetic pathway and uses a previously unrecognized mechanism for AAA+ unfoldases.
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- Julia R Kardon
- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Fratz EJ, Clayton J, Hunter GA, Ducamp S, Breydo L, Uversky VN, Deybach JC, Gouya L, Puy H, Ferreira GC. Human Erythroid 5-Aminolevulinate Synthase Mutations Associated with X-Linked Protoporphyria Disrupt the Conformational Equilibrium and Enhance Product Release. Biochemistry 2015; 54:5617-31. [PMID: 26300302 PMCID: PMC4573335 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Regulation of 5-aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS) is at the origin of balanced heme production in mammals. Mutations in the C-terminal region of human erythroid-specific ALAS (hALAS2) are associated with X-linked protoporphyria (XLPP), a disease characterized by extreme photosensitivity, with elevated blood concentrations of free protoporphyrin IX and zinc protoporphyrin. To investigate the molecular basis for this disease, recombinant hALAS2 and variants of the enzyme harboring the gain-of-function XLPP mutations were constructed, purified, and analyzed kinetically, spectroscopically, and thermodynamically. Enhanced activities of the XLPP variants resulted from increases in the rate at which the product 5-aminolevulinate (ALA) was released from the enzyme. Circular dichroism spectroscopy revealed that the XLPP mutations altered the microenvironment of the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate cofactor, which underwent further and specific alterations upon succinyl-CoA binding. Transient kinetic analyses of the variant-catalyzed reactions and protein fluorescence quenching upon binding of ALA to the XLPP variants demonstrated that the protein conformational transition step associated with product release was predominantly affected. Of relevance is the fact that XLPP could also be modeled in cell culture. We propose that (1) the XLPP mutations destabilize the succinyl-CoA-induced hALAS2 closed conformation and thus accelerate ALA release, (2) the extended C-terminus of wild-type mammalian ALAS2 provides a regulatory role that allows for allosteric modulation of activity, thereby controlling the rate of erythroid heme biosynthesis, and (3) this control is disrupted in XLPP, resulting in porphyrin accumulation.
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- Erica J. Fratz
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33612, USA
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre Français des Porphyries, Hôpital Louis Mourier, 178 rue des Renouillers, 92701 Colombes CEDEX, France
- INSERM U1149, CNRS ERL 8252, Centre de Recherche sur l’inflammation, 16 rue Henri Huchard, 75018, Université Paris Diderot, Site Bichat, 75018 Paris, France; Laboratory of Excellence, GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33612, USA
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre Français des Porphyries, Hôpital Louis Mourier, 178 rue des Renouillers, 92701 Colombes CEDEX, France
- INSERM U1149, CNRS ERL 8252, Centre de Recherche sur l’inflammation, 16 rue Henri Huchard, 75018, Université Paris Diderot, Site Bichat, 75018 Paris, France; Laboratory of Excellence, GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre Français des Porphyries, Hôpital Louis Mourier, 178 rue des Renouillers, 92701 Colombes CEDEX, France
- INSERM U1149, CNRS ERL 8252, Centre de Recherche sur l’inflammation, 16 rue Henri Huchard, 75018, Université Paris Diderot, Site Bichat, 75018 Paris, France; Laboratory of Excellence, GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Centre Français des Porphyries, Hôpital Louis Mourier, 178 rue des Renouillers, 92701 Colombes CEDEX, France
- INSERM U1149, CNRS ERL 8252, Centre de Recherche sur l’inflammation, 16 rue Henri Huchard, 75018, Université Paris Diderot, Site Bichat, 75018 Paris, France; Laboratory of Excellence, GR-Ex, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33612, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33612, USA
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Stojanovski BM, Breydo L, Hunter GA, Uversky VN, Ferreira GC. Catalytically active alkaline molten globular enzyme: Effect of pH and temperature on the structural integrity of 5-aminolevulinate synthase. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2014; 1844:2145-54. [PMID: 25240868 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2014.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2014] [Revised: 08/27/2014] [Accepted: 09/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
5-Aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS), a pyridoxal-5'phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme, catalyzes the first step of heme biosynthesis in mammals. Circular dichroism (CD) and fluorescence spectroscopies were used to examine the effects of pH (1.0-3.0 and 7.5-10.5) and temperature (20 and 37°C) on the structural integrity of ALAS. The secondary structure, as deduced from far-UV CD, is mostly resilient to pH and temperature changes. Partial unfolding was observed at pH2.0, but further decreasing pH resulted in acid-induced refolding of the secondary structure to nearly native levels. The tertiary structure rigidity, monitored by near-UV CD, is lost under acidic and specific alkaline conditions (pH10.5 and pH9.5/37°C), where ALAS populates a molten globule state. As the enzyme becomes less structured with increased alkalinity, the chiral environment of the internal aldimine is also modified, with a shift from a 420nm to 330nm dichroic band. Under acidic conditions, the PLP cofactor dissociates from ALAS. Reaction with 8-anilino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid corroborates increased exposure of hydrophobic clusters in the alkaline and acidic molten globules, although the reaction is more pronounced with the latter. Furthermore, quenching the intrinsic fluorescence of ALAS with acrylamide at pH1.0 and 9.5 yielded subtly different dynamic quenching constants. The alkaline molten globule state of ALAS is catalytically active (pH9.5/37°C), although the kcat value is significantly decreased. Finally, the binding of 5-aminolevulinate restricts conformational fluctuations in the alkaline molten globule. Overall, our findings prove how the structural plasticity of ALAS contributes to reaching a functional enzyme.
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- Bosko M Stojanovski
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; Biology Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia; Institute for Biological Instrumentation, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142290 Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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Stojanovski BM, Hunter GA, Jahn M, Jahn D, Ferreira GC. Unstable reaction intermediates and hysteresis during the catalytic cycle of 5-aminolevulinate synthase: implications from using pseudo and alternate substrates and a promiscuous enzyme variant. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:22915-22925. [PMID: 24920668 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m114.574731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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5-Aminolevulinate (ALA), an essential metabolite in all heme-synthesizing organisms, results from the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymatic condensation of glycine with succinyl-CoA in non-plant eukaryotes and α-proteobacteria. The predicted chemical mechanism of this ALA synthase (ALAS)-catalyzed reaction includes a short-lived glycine quinonoid intermediate and an unstable 2-amino-3-ketoadipate intermediate. Using liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry to analyze the products from the reaction of murine erythroid ALAS (mALAS2) with O-methylglycine and succinyl-CoA, we directly identified the chemical nature of the inherently unstable 2-amino-3-ketoadipate intermediate, which predicates the glycine quinonoid species as its precursor. With stopped-flow absorption spectroscopy, we detected and confirmed the formation of the quinonoid intermediate upon reacting glycine with ALAS. Significantly, in the absence of the succinyl-CoA substrate, the external aldimine predominates over the glycine quinonoid intermediate. When instead of glycine, L-serine was reacted with ALAS, a lag phase was observed in the progress curve for the L-serine external aldimine formation, indicating a hysteretic behavior in ALAS. Hysteresis was not detected in the T148A-catalyzed L-serine external aldimine formation. These results with T148A, a mALAS2 variant, which, in contrast to wild-type mALAS2, is active with L-serine, suggest that active site Thr-148 modulates ALAS strict amino acid substrate specificity. The rate of ALA release is also controlled by a hysteretic kinetic mechanism (observed as a lag in the ALA external aldimine formation progress curve), consistent with conformational changes governing the dissociation of ALA from ALAS.
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- Bosko M Stojanovski
- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612 and
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612 and
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Spielmannstrasse 7, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technical University of Braunschweig, Spielmannstrasse 7, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612 and.
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The role of the glycine triad in human glutathione synthetase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2010; 400:511-6. [PMID: 20800579 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.08.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2010] [Accepted: 08/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Experimental kinetics and computational modeling of human glutathione synthetase (hGS) support the significant role of the G-loop glycine triad (G369, G370, G371) for activity of this ATP-grasp enzyme. Enzyme kinetic experiments indicate that G369V and G370V mutant hGS have little activity (<0.7 and 0.3%, respectively, versus wild-type hGS). However, G371V retains ∼13% of the activity of wild-type hGS. With respect to G-loop:A-loop interaction in hGS, mutations at Gly369 and Gly370 decrease ligand binding and prevent active site closure and protection. This research indicates that Gly369 and Gly370 have essential roles in hGS, while Gly371 has a lesser involvement. Implications for glycine-rich ensembles in other phosphate-binding enzymes are discussed.
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Stránská J, Tylichová M, Kopecný D, Snégaroff J, Sebela M. Biochemical characterization of pea ornithine-delta-aminotransferase: substrate specificity and inhibition by di- and polyamines. Biochimie 2010; 92:940-8. [PMID: 20381578 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2010.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2010] [Accepted: 03/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Ornithine-delta-aminotransferase (OAT, EC 2.6.1.13) catalyzes the transamination of L-ornithine to L-glutamate-gamma-semialdehyde. The physiological role of OAT in plants is not yet well understood. It is probably related to arginine catabolism resulting in glutamate but the enzyme has also been associated with stress-induced proline biosynthesis. We investigated the enzyme from pea (PsOAT) to assess whether diamines and polyamines may serve as substrates or they show inhibitory properties. First, a cDNA coding for PsOAT was cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli to obtain a recombinant protein with a C-terminal 6xHis tag. Recombinant PsOAT was purified under native conditions by immobilized metal affinity chromatography and its molecular and kinetic properties were characterized. Protein identity was confirmed by peptide mass fingerprinting after proteolytic digestion. The purified PsOAT existed as a monomer of 50 kDa and showed typical spectral properties of enzymes containing pyridoxal-5'-phosphate as a prosthetic group. The cofactor content of PsOAT was estimated to be 0.9 mol per mol of the monomer by a spectrophotometric analysis with phenylhydrazine. L-Ornithine was the best substrate (K(m)=15 mM) but PsOAT also slowly converted N(alpha)-acetyl-L-ornithine. In these reactions, 2-oxoglutarate was the exclusive amino group acceptor (K(m)=2mM). The enzyme had a basic optimal pH of 8.8 and displayed relatively high temperature optimum. Diamines and polyamines were not accepted as substrates. On the other hand, putrescine, spermidine and others represented weak non-competitive inhibitors. A model of the molecular structure of PsOAT was obtained using the crystal structure of human OAT as a template.
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- Jana Stránská
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Lendrihas T, Zhang J, Hunter GA, Ferreira GC. Arg-85 and Thr-430 in murine 5-aminolevulinate synthase coordinate acyl-CoA-binding and contribute to substrate specificity. Protein Sci 2009; 18:1847-59. [PMID: 19562746 DOI: 10.1002/pro.195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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5-Aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS) controls the rate-limiting step of heme biosynthesis in mammals by catalyzing the condensation of succinyl-coenzyme A and glycine to produce 5-aminolevulinate, coenzyme-A (CoA), and carbon dioxide. ALAS is a member of the alpha-oxoamine synthase family of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzymes and shares high degree of structural similarity and reaction mechanism with the other members of the family. The X-ray crystal structure of ALAS from Rhodobacter capsulatus reveals that the alkanoate component of succinyl-CoA is coordinated by a conserved arginine and a threonine. The functions of the corresponding acyl-CoA-binding residues in murine erthyroid ALAS (R85 and T430) in relation to acyl-CoA binding and substrate discrimination were examined using site-directed mutagenesis and a series of CoA-derivatives. The catalytic efficiency of the R85L variant with octanoyl-CoA was 66-fold higher than that of the wild-type protein, supporting the proposal of this residue as key in discriminating substrate binding. Substitution of the acyl-CoA-binding residues with hydrophobic amino acids caused a ligand-induced negative dichroic band at 420 nm in the CD spectra, suggesting that these residues affect substrate-mediated changes to the PLP microenvironment. Transient kinetic analyses of the R85K variant-catalyzed reactions confirm that this substitution decreases microscopic rates associated with formation and decay of a key reaction intermediate and show that the nature of the acyl-CoA tail seriously affect product binding. These results show that the bifurcate interaction of the carboxylate moiety of succinyl-CoA with R85 and T430 is an important determinant in ALAS function and may play a role in substrate specificity.
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- Thomas Lendrihas
- Department of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA
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Cellini B, Bertoldi M, Montioli R, Paiardini A, Borri Voltattorni C. Human wild-type alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase and its naturally occurring G82E variant: functional properties and physiological implications. Biochem J 2007; 408:39-50. [PMID: 17696873 PMCID: PMC2049084 DOI: 10.1042/bj20070637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Human hepatic peroxisomal AGT (alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase) is a PLP (pyridoxal 5'-phosphate)-dependent enzyme whose deficiency causes primary hyperoxaluria Type I, a rare autosomal recessive disorder. To acquire experimental evidence for the physiological function of AGT, the K(eq),(overall) of the reaction, the steady-state kinetic parameters of the forward and reverse reactions, and the pre-steady-state kinetics of the half-reactions of the PLP form of AGT with L-alanine or glycine and the PMP (pyridoxamine 5'-phosphate) form with pyruvate or glyoxylate have been measured. The results indicate that the enzyme is highly specific for catalysing glyoxylate to glycine processing, thereby playing a key role in glyoxylate detoxification. Analysis of the reaction course also reveals that PMP remains bound to the enzyme during the catalytic cycle and that the AGT-PMP complex displays a reactivity towards oxo acids higher than that of apoAGT in the presence of PMP. These findings are tentatively related to possible subtle rearrangements at the active site also indicated by the putative binding mode of catalytic intermediates. Additionally, the catalytic and spectroscopic features of the naturally occurring G82E variant have been analysed. Although, like the wild-type, the G82E variant is able to bind 2 mol PLP/dimer, it exhibits a significant reduced affinity for PLP and even more for PMP compared with wild-type, and an altered conformational state of the bound PLP. The striking molecular defect of the mutant, consisting in the dramatic decrease of the overall catalytic activity (approximately 0.1% of that of normal AGT), appears to be related to the inability to undergo an efficient transaldimination of the PLP form of the enzyme with amino acids as well as an efficient conversion of AGT-PMP into AGT-PLP. Overall, careful biochemical analyses have allowed elucidation of the mechanism of action of AGT and the way in which the disease causing G82E mutation affects it.
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- Barbara Cellini
- *Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Sezione di Chimica Biologica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Verona, Strada Le Grazie, 8, 37134 Verona, Italy
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- *Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Sezione di Chimica Biologica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Verona, Strada Le Grazie, 8, 37134 Verona, Italy
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- *Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Sezione di Chimica Biologica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Verona, Strada Le Grazie, 8, 37134 Verona, Italy
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- †Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche ‘A. Rossi Fanelli’ and Centro di Biologia Molecolare del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Università ‘La Sapienza’, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- *Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Sezione di Chimica Biologica, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Verona, Strada Le Grazie, 8, 37134 Verona, Italy
- To whom correspondence should be addressed (email )
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Chen M, Han G, Dietrich CR, Dunn TM, Cahoon EB. The essential nature of sphingolipids in plants as revealed by the functional identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis LCB1 subunit of serine palmitoyltransferase. THE PLANT CELL 2006; 18:3576-93. [PMID: 17194770 PMCID: PMC1785403 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.105.040774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2005] [Revised: 10/24/2006] [Accepted: 11/10/2006] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT) catalyzes the first step of sphingolipid biosynthesis. In yeast and mammalian cells, SPT is a heterodimer that consists of LCB1 and LCB2 subunits, which together form the active site of this enzyme. We show that the predicted gene for Arabidopsis thaliana LCB1 encodes a genuine subunit of SPT that rescues the sphingolipid long-chain base auxotrophy of Saccharomyces cerevisiae SPT mutants when coexpressed with Arabidopsis LCB2. In addition, homozygous T-DNA insertion mutants for At LCB1 were not recoverable, but viability was restored by complementation with the wild-type At LCB1 gene. Furthermore, partial RNA interference (RNAi) suppression of At LCB1 expression was accompanied by a marked reduction in plant size that resulted primarily from reduced cell expansion. Sphingolipid content on a weight basis was not changed significantly in the RNAi suppression plants, suggesting that plants compensate for the downregulation of sphingolipid synthesis by reduced growth. At LCB1 RNAi suppression plants also displayed altered leaf morphology and increases in relative amounts of saturated sphingolipid long-chain bases. These results demonstrate that plant SPT is a heteromeric enzyme and that sphingolipids are essential components of plant cells and contribute to growth and development.
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- Ming Chen
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63132, USA
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Astner I, Schulze JO, van den Heuvel J, Jahn D, Schubert WD, Heinz DW. Crystal structure of 5-aminolevulinate synthase, the first enzyme of heme biosynthesis, and its link to XLSA in humans. EMBO J 2005; 24:3166-77. [PMID: 16121195 PMCID: PMC1224682 DOI: 10.1038/sj.emboj.7600792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2005] [Accepted: 07/29/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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5-Aminolevulinate synthase (ALAS) is the first and rate-limiting enzyme of heme biosynthesis in humans, animals, other non-plant eukaryotes, and alpha-proteobacteria. It catalyzes the synthesis of 5-aminolevulinic acid, the first common precursor of all tetrapyrroles, from glycine and succinyl-coenzyme A (sCoA) in a pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent manner. X-linked sideroblastic anemias (XLSAs), a group of severe disorders in humans characterized by inadequate formation of heme in erythroblast mitochondria, are caused by mutations in the gene for erythroid eALAS, one of two human genes for ALAS. We present the first crystal structure of homodimeric ALAS from Rhodobacter capsulatus (ALAS(Rc)) binding its cofactor PLP. We, furthermore, present structures of ALAS(Rc) in complex with the substrates glycine or sCoA. The sequence identity of ALAS from R. capsulatus and human eALAS is 49%. XLSA-causing mutations may thus be mapped, revealing the molecular basis of XLSA in humans. Mutations are found to obstruct substrate binding, disrupt the dimer interface, or hamper the correct folding. The structure of ALAS completes the structural analysis of enzymes in heme biosynthesis.
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- Isabel Astner
- Division of Structural Biology, German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Division of Structural Biology, German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Division of Structural Biology, German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Division of Structural Biology, German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany
- Division of Structural Biology, German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Mascheroder Weg 1, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany. Tel.: +49 531 6181 764; Fax: +49 531 6181 763; E-mail: or
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- Division of Structural Biology, German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany
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Shoolingin-Jordan PM, Al-Daihan S, Alexeev D, Baxter RL, Bottomley SS, Kahari ID, Roy I, Sarwar M, Sawyer L, Wang SF. 5-Aminolevulinic acid synthase: mechanism, mutations and medicine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2003; 1647:361-6. [PMID: 12686158 DOI: 10.1016/s1570-9639(03)00095-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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5-Aminolevulinic acid synthase (ALAS), the first enzyme of the heme biosynthesis pathway, catalyses the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent condensation between glycine and succinyl-CoA to yield 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-amino-4-oxopentanoate). A three-dimensional structural model of Rhodobacter spheroides ALAS has been constructed and used to identify amino acid residues at the active site that are likely to be important for the recognition of glycine, the only amino acid substrate. Several residues have been investigated by site-directed mutagenesis and enzyme variants have been generated that are able to use alanine, serine or threonine. A three-dimensional structure model of 5-aminolevulinic acid synthase from human erythrocytes (ALAS 2) has also been constructed and used to map a range of naturally occurring human mutants that give rise to X-linked sideroblastic anemia. A number of these anemias respond favourably to vitamin B(6) (pyridoxine) therapy, whereas others are either partially responsive or completely refractory. Detailed investigations with selected human mutants have highlighted the importance of arginine-517 that is implicated in glycine carboxyl group binding.
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- Peter M Shoolingin-Jordan
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Southampton, Southampton, SO16 7PX, UK.
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The sideroblastic anemias are a heterogeneous group of acquired and inherited bone marrow disorders defined by the presence of pathologic iron deposits in erythroblast mitochondria. While the pathogenesis of almost all cases of acquired sideroblastic anemia is unknown, the molecular genetic basis for several of the inherited forms have now been described. Initially, mutations in ALAS2 in X-linked sideroblastic anemia (XLSA) focused attention on the heme biosynthetic pathway as a primary cause of sideroblastic anemia. However, the subsequent description of the genes involved in XLSA with ataxia, thiamine-responsive megaloblastic anemia, and Pearson marrow-pancreas syndrome have implicated other pathways, including mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, thiamine metabolism, and iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis, as primary defects in sideroblastic anemias that may only secondarily impact heme metabolism.
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- Mark D Fleming
- Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Ames BN, Elson-Schwab I, Silver EA. High-dose vitamin therapy stimulates variant enzymes with decreased coenzyme binding affinity (increased K(m)): relevance to genetic disease and polymorphisms. Am J Clin Nutr 2002; 75:616-58. [PMID: 11916749 DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/75.4.616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 218] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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As many as one-third of mutations in a gene result in the corresponding enzyme having an increased Michaelis constant, or K(m), (decreased binding affinity) for a coenzyme, resulting in a lower rate of reaction. About 50 human genetic dis-eases due to defective enzymes can be remedied or ameliorated by the administration of high doses of the vitamin component of the corresponding coenzyme, which at least partially restores enzymatic activity. Several single-nucleotide polymorphisms, in which the variant amino acid reduces coenzyme binding and thus enzymatic activity, are likely to be remediable by raising cellular concentrations of the cofactor through high-dose vitamin therapy. Some examples include the alanine-to-valine substitution at codon 222 (Ala222-->Val) [DNA: C-to-T substitution at nucleo-tide 677 (677C-->T)] in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (NADPH) and the cofactor FAD (in relation to cardiovascular disease, migraines, and rages), the Pro187-->Ser (DNA: 609C-->T) mutation in NAD(P):quinone oxidoreductase 1 [NAD(P)H dehy-drogenase (quinone)] and FAD (in relation to cancer), the Ala44-->Gly (DNA: 131C-->G) mutation in glucose-6-phosphate 1-dehydrogenase and NADP (in relation to favism and hemolytic anemia), and the Glu487-->Lys mutation (present in one-half of Asians) in aldehyde dehydrogenase (NAD + ) and NAD (in relation to alcohol intolerance, Alzheimer disease, and cancer).
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- Bruce N Ames
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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Gable K, Han G, Monaghan E, Bacikova D, Natarajan M, Williams R, Dunn TM. Mutations in the yeast LCB1 and LCB2 genes, including those corresponding to the hereditary sensory neuropathy type I mutations, dominantly inactivate serine palmitoyltransferase. J Biol Chem 2002; 277:10194-200. [PMID: 11781309 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m107873200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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It was recently demonstrated that mutations in the human SPTLC1 gene, encoding the Lcb1p subunit of serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT), cause hereditary sensory neuropathy type I . As a member of the subfamily of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate enzymes known as the alpha-oxoamine synthases, serine palmitoyltransferase catalyzes the committed step of sphingolipid synthesis. The residues that are mutated to cause hereditary sensory neuropathy type I reside in a highly conserved region of Lcb1p that is predicted to be a catalytic domain of Lcb1p on the basis of alignments with other members of the alpha-oxoamine synthase family. We found that the corresponding mutations in the LCB1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae reduce serine palmitoyltransferase activity. These mutations are dominant and decrease serine palmitoyltransferase activity by 50% when the wild-type and mutant LCB1 alleles are coexpressed. We also show that serine palmitoyltransferase is an Lcb1p small middle dotLcb2p heterodimer and that the mutated Lcb1p proteins retain their ability to interact with Lcb2p. Modeling studies suggest that serine palmitoyltransferase is likely to have a single active site that lies at the Lcb1p small middle dotLcb2p interface and that the mutations in Lcb1p reside near the lysine in Lcb2p that is expected to form the Schiff's base with the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate cofactor. Furthermore, mutations in this lysine and in a histidine residue that is also predicted to be important for pyridoxal 5'-phosphate binding to Lcb2p also dominantly inactivate SPT similar to the hereditary sensory neuropathy type 1-like mutations in Lcb1p.
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- Ken Gable
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20184, USA
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Franco R, Pereira AS, Tavares P, Mangravita A, Barber MJ, Moura I, Ferreira GC. Substitution of murine ferrochelatase glutamate-287 with glutamine or alanine leads to porphyrin substrate-bound variants. Biochem J 2001; 356:217-22. [PMID: 11336654 PMCID: PMC1221830 DOI: 10.1042/0264-6021:3560217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Ferrochelatase (EC 4.99.1.1) is the terminal enzyme of the haem biosynthetic pathway and catalyses iron chelation into the protoporphyrin IX ring. Glutamate-287 (E287) of murine mature ferrochelatase is a conserved residue in all known sequences of ferrochelatase, is present at the active site of the enzyme, as inferred from the Bacillus subtilis ferrochelatase three-dimensional structure, and is critical for enzyme activity. Substitution of E287 with either glutamine (Q) or alanine (A) yielded variants with lower enzymic activity than that of the wild-type ferrochelatase and with different absorption spectra from the wild-type enzyme. In contrast to the wild-type enzyme, the absorption spectra of the variants indicate that these enzymes, as purified, contain protoporphyrin IX. Identification and quantification of the porphyrin bound to the E287-directed variants indicate that approx. 80% of the total porphyrin corresponds to protoporphyrin IX. Significantly, rapid stopped-flow experiments of the E287A and E287Q variants demonstrate that reaction with Zn(2+) results in the formation of bound Zn-protoporphyrin IX, indicating that the endogenously bound protoporphyrin IX can be used as a substrate. Taken together, these findings suggest that the structural strain imposed by ferrochelatase on the porphyrin substrate as a critical step in the enzyme catalytic mechanism is also accomplished by the E287A and E287Q variants, but without the release of the product. Thus E287 in murine ferrochelatase appears to be critical for the catalytic process by controlling the release of the product.
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- R Franco
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
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A novel endoproteolytic processing activity in mitochondria of erythroid cells and the role in heme synthesis. Blood 2000. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v96.2.740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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AbstractThe erythroid isoform of aminolevulinate synthase (eALAS) protein is a major control point in erythroid heme synthesis and hemoglobin formation. Erythroid cells were extracted from mouse blood and bone marrow and metabolically labeled with 35S-methionine. This was followed by immunoprecipitation of eALAS protein products. The results show that the N-terminus of the expected full-length 59-kd form of the eALAS protein is truncated in bone marrow erythroid cells by approximately 7 kd. More differentiated erythroid cells in the peripheral blood exhibit very little of this protein truncation. Erythroid cells from the bone marrow were isolated using monoclonal antibody TER-119 and were shown to contain a unique endoprotease activity that could cleave the eALAS protein to the shorter form in vitro. With or without the mitochondrial signal sequence, the eALAS protein could serve as a substrate for the cleavage. This cleavage renders a functional eALAS protein and only removes a domain of unclear function, which has previously been reported to vary in size as a result of alternative RNA splicing. The protease activity was enriched from the membranes of mitochondria from bone marrow cells and was shown to be different from mitochondrial processing peptidase, medullasin, and other known proteases. Apart from the mitochondrial processing peptidase that cleaves the import signal sequence, this is the first description of a mitochondrially located site-specific processing protease activity.
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The erythroid isoform of aminolevulinate synthase (eALAS) protein is a major control point in erythroid heme synthesis and hemoglobin formation. Erythroid cells were extracted from mouse blood and bone marrow and metabolically labeled with 35S-methionine. This was followed by immunoprecipitation of eALAS protein products. The results show that the N-terminus of the expected full-length 59-kd form of the eALAS protein is truncated in bone marrow erythroid cells by approximately 7 kd. More differentiated erythroid cells in the peripheral blood exhibit very little of this protein truncation. Erythroid cells from the bone marrow were isolated using monoclonal antibody TER-119 and were shown to contain a unique endoprotease activity that could cleave the eALAS protein to the shorter form in vitro. With or without the mitochondrial signal sequence, the eALAS protein could serve as a substrate for the cleavage. This cleavage renders a functional eALAS protein and only removes a domain of unclear function, which has previously been reported to vary in size as a result of alternative RNA splicing. The protease activity was enriched from the membranes of mitochondria from bone marrow cells and was shown to be different from mitochondrial processing peptidase, medullasin, and other known proteases. Apart from the mitochondrial processing peptidase that cleaves the import signal sequence, this is the first description of a mitochondrially located site-specific processing protease activity.
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Edgar AJ, Polak JM. Molecular cloning of the human and murine 2-amino-3-ketobutyrate coenzyme A ligase cDNAs. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 2000; 267:1805-12. [PMID: 10712613 DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01175.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The conversion of L-threonine to glycine in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes takes place through a two-step biochemical pathway involving the enzymes L-threonine dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1103) and 2-amino-3-ketobutyrate coenzyme A ligase (KBL; EC 2.3.1.29). The genes encoding these enzymes have been described in prokaryotes but not in eukaryotes. We report the cloning of transcripts for KBL, the second enzyme in the pathway, from human and murine lung and a partial transcript from bovine liver. Two peptide sequences from the purified bovine KBL protein, one from the N-terminus and the other from the peptide containing the pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-binding lysine residue [Tong, H. & Davis, L. (1994) J. Biol. Chem. 269, 4057-4064], are identical with regions of the conceptual translation of the transcript obtained from bovine liver. The partial transcript from bovine liver was very similar to the human transcript, being 91% and 92% identical at the nucleotide and amino-acid levels, respectively. The human and murine KBL transcripts are 1.5 kb long, with ORFs encoding proteins of 419 and 416 residues, respectively. The mouse protein has 90% identity with the human protein. The human transcript is strongly expressed in heart, brain, liver and pancreas compared with the lung. The N-termini of both human and mouse proteins have characteristics of mitochondrial import sequences. Both human and murine proteins have 54% identity with the well-characterised prokaryote KLB protein from Escherichia coli. Database searches with the human cDNA sequence enabled us to identify the human KBL gene on chromosome 22q12-13, consisting of nine exons over 9 kb, and a hypothetical Caenorhabditis elegans KLB gene on chromosome IV, consisting of five exons over 2 kb.
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- A J Edgar
- Department of Histochemistry, Division of Investigative Science, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK.
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Kreiling JA, Duncan R, Faggart MA, Cornell NW. Comparison of the beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) expressed genes for 5-aminolevulinate synthase with those in other vertebrates. Comp Biochem Physiol B Biochem Mol Biol 1999; 123:163-74. [PMID: 10425720 DOI: 10.1016/s0305-0491(99)00052-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The cDNA and inferred amino acid sequences were determined for beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) erythroid (E) and housekeeping (H) forms of 5-aminolevulinate synthase (ALS), and they were compared with known sequences for five other vertebrates with particular attention to regulatory features. The cDNAs for whale ALS-E and -H encode, respectively, proteins of 582 and 640 amino acids. Sequence alignments suggest that the whale ALS-H, like those for rat and chicken, has an N-terminal mitochondrial targeting sequence of 56 amino acids. There is a high degree of amino acid conservation between the beluga whale proteins and those of other vertebrates, including regulatory elements and functional residues that have been defined in other ALSs. Both whale proteins contain three heme regulatory motifs suggesting that mitochondrial uptake may be regulated by heme. The ALS-E mRNA contains an iron responsive element in its 5'-untranslated region indicating that its expression may be post-transcriptionally regulated by cellular iron. This extensive structural similarity and the presence of the same regulatory elements found in other ALSs indicate that regulation of ALS in beluga whale is similar to that in other vertebrates.
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- J A Kreiling
- Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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Tan D, Barber MJ, Ferreira GC. The role of tyrosine 121 in cofactor binding of 5-aminolevulinate synthase. Protein Sci 1998; 7:1208-13. [PMID: 9605326 PMCID: PMC2144007 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560070516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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5-Aminolevulinate synthase (EC 2.3.1.37) is the first enzyme in the heme biosynthesis in nonplant eukaryotes and some prokaryotes. It functions as a homodimer and requires pyridoxal 5'-phosphate as an essential cofactor. Tyr-121 is a conserved residue in all known sequences of 5-aminolevulinate synthases. Further, it corresponds to Tyr-70 of Escherichia coli aspartate aminotransferase, which has been shown to interact with the cofactor and prevent the dissociation of the cofactor from the enzyme. To test whether Tyr-121 is involved in cofactor binding in murine erythroid 5-aminolevulinate synthase, Tyr-121 of murine erythroid 5-aminolevulinate synthase was substituted by Phe and His using site-directed mutagenesis. The Y121F mutant retained 36% of the wild-type activity and the Km value for substrate glycine increased 34-fold, while the activity of the Y121H mutant decreased to 5% of the wild-type activity and the Km value for glycine increased fivefold. The pKa1 values in the pH-activity profiles of the wild-type and mutant enzymes were 6.41, 6.54, and 6.65 for wild-type, Y121F, and Y121H, respectively. The UV-visible and CD spectra of Y121F and Y121H mutants were similar to those of the wild-type with the exception of an absorption maximum shift (420 --> 395 nm) for the Y121F mutant in the visible spectrum region, suggesting that the cofactor binds the Y121F mutant enzyme in a more unrestrained manner. Y121F and Y121H mutant enzymes also exhibited lower affinity than the wild-type for the cofactor, reflected in the Kd values for pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (26.5, 6.75, and 1.78 microM for Y121F, Y121H, and the wild-type, respectively). Further, Y121F and Y121H proved less thermostable than the wild type. Taken together, these findings indicate that Tyr-121 plays a critical role in cofactor binding of murine erythroid 5-aminolevulinate synthase.
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- D Tan
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612, USA
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Dominici P, Moore PS, Castellani S, Bertoldi M, Voltattorni CB. Mutation of cysteine 111 in Dopa decarboxylase leads to active site perturbation. Protein Sci 1997; 6:2007-15. [PMID: 9300500 PMCID: PMC2143786 DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560060921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Abstract
Cysteine 111 in Dopa decarboxylase (DDC) has been replaced by alanine or serine by site-directed mutagenesis. Compared to the wild-type enzyme, the resultant C111A and C111S mutant enzymes exhibit Kcat values of about 50% and 15%, respectively, at pH 6.8, while the K(m) values remain relatively unaltered for L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-Dopa) and L-5-hydroxytryptophan (L-5-HTP). While a significant decrease of the 280 nm optically active band present in the wild type is observed in mutant DDCs, their visible co-enzyme absorption and CD spectra are similar to those of the wild type. With respect to the wild type, the Cys-111-->Ala mutant displays a reduced affinity for pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP), slower kinetics of reconstitution to holoenzyme, a decreased ability to anchor the external aldimine formed between D-Dopa and the bound co-enzyme, and a decreased efficiency of energy transfer between tryptophan residue(s) and reduced PLP. Values of pKa and pKb for the groups involved in catalysis were determined for the wild-type and the C111A mutant enzymes. The mutant showed a decrease in both pK values by about 1 pH unit, resulting in a shift of the pH of the maximum velocity from 7.2 (wild-type) to 6.2 (mutant). This change in maximum velocity is mirrored by a similar shift in the spectrophotometrically determined pK value of the 420-->390 nm transition of the external aldimine. These results demonstrate that the sulfhydryl group of Cys-111 is catalytically nonessential and provide strong support for previous suggestion that this residue is located at or near the PLP binding site (Dominici P, Maras B, Mei G, Borri Voltattorni C. 1991. Eur J Biochem 201:393-397). Moreover, our findings provide evidence that Cys-111 has a structural role in PLP binding and suggest that this residue is required for maintenance of proper active-site conformation.
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- P Dominici
- Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Università di Verona, Italy
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