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Mhashal AR, Major DT. Temperature-Dependent Kinetic Isotope Effects in R67 Dihydrofolate Reductase from Path-Integral Simulations. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:1369-1377. [PMID: 33522797 PMCID: PMC7883348 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c10318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Revised: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Calculation of temperature-dependent kinetic isotope effects (KIE) in enzymes presents a significant theoretical challenge. Additionally, it is not trivial to identify enzymes with available experimental accurate intrinsic KIEs in a range of temperatures. In the current work, we present a theoretical study of KIEs in the primitive R67 dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) enzyme and compare with experimental work. The advantage of R67 DHFR is its significantly lower kinetic complexity compared to more evolved DHFR isoforms. We employ mass-perturbation-based path-integral simulations in conjunction with umbrella sampling and a hybrid quantum mechanics-molecular mechanics Hamiltonian. We obtain temperature-dependent KIEs in good agreement with experiments and ascribe the temperature-dependent KIEs primarily to zero-point energy effects. The active site in the primitive enzyme is found to be poorly preorganized, which allows excessive water access to the active site and results in loosely bound reacting ligands.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anil R. Mhashal
- Department of Chemistry and Institute
for Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and Institute
for Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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Johannissen LO, Iorgu AI, Scrutton NS, Hay S. What are the signatures of tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed reactions? Faraday Discuss 2020; 221:367-378. [DOI: 10.1039/c9fd00044e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Computed tunnelling contributions and correlations between apparent activation enthalpy and entropy are explored for the interpretation of enzyme-catalysed H-transfer reactions.
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- Linus O. Johannissen
- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB)
- School of Chemistry
- University of Manchester
- Manchester
- UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB)
- School of Chemistry
- University of Manchester
- Manchester
- UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB)
- School of Chemistry
- University of Manchester
- Manchester
- UK
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- Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB)
- School of Chemistry
- University of Manchester
- Manchester
- UK
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Ruiz-Pernía JJ, Tuñón I, Moliner V, Allemann RK. Why are some Enzymes Dimers? Flexibility and Catalysis in Thermotoga Maritima Dihydrofolate Reductase. ACS Catal 2019; 9:5902-5911. [PMID: 31289693 PMCID: PMC6614790 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b01250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Dihydrofolate
reductase from Thermotoga maritima (TmDFHFR) is a
dimeric thermophilic enzyme that catalyzes the hydride
transfer from the cofactor NADPH to dihydrofolate less efficiently
than other DHFR enzymes, such as the mesophilic analogue Escherichia
coli DHFR (EcDHFR). Using QM/MM potentials, we show that
the reduced catalytic efficiency of TmDHFR is most likely due to differences
in the amino acid sequence that stabilize the M20 loop in an open
conformation, which prevents the formation of some interactions in
the transition state and increases the number of water molecules in
the active site. However, dimerization provides two advantages to
the thermophilic enzyme: it protects its structure against denaturation
by reducing thermal fluctuations and it provides a less negative activation
entropy, toning down the increase of the activation free energy with
temperature. Our molecular picture is confirmed by the analysis of
the temperature dependence of enzyme kinetic isotope effects in different
DHFR enzymes.
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- J. Javier Ruiz-Pernía
- Departamento de Química Física, Universitat de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universitat de Valencia, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física y Analítica, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón, Spain
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Abbat S, Jaladanki CK, Bharatam PV. Exploring PfDHFR reaction surface: A combined molecular dynamics and QM/MM analysis. J Mol Graph Model 2018; 87:76-88. [PMID: 30508692 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2018.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2018] [Revised: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 11/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
Abstract
The substrate to the enzyme PfDHFR (Plasmodium falciparum Dihydrofolate Reductase) is a small molecule dihydrofolate (DHF), it gets converted to tetrahydrofolate (THF) in the active site of the enzyme. The PfDHFR reaction surface involves the protonation of DHF to DHFP as an initial step before the catalytic conversion. The binding affinities of all these species (DHF, DHFP and THF) contribute to the mechanism of DHFR catalytic action. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) analysis were performed to evaluate the binding affinity and molecular recognition interactions of the substrate DHF/DHFP and the product THF, in the active site of wild-type PfDHFR (wtPfDHFR). The binding affinities of the cofactor NADPH/NADP+ were also estimated in all the three complexes. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the substrate, product and cofactor in the cavities of wtPfDHFR revealed the variation of the atomic level interactions during the course of the catalytic conversion. It was found that the DHFP binds very strongly to the PfDHFR active site and pulls the cofactor NADPH closer to itself. The QM/MM analysis revealed that the binding energy of DHFP (-59.82 kcal/mol) and NADPH (-100.24 kcal/mol) in DHFP-wtPfDHFR complex, is higher in comparison to the binding energy of DHF (-38.67 kcal/mol) and NADPH (-77.53 kcal/mol) in DHF-wtPfDHFR complex and the binding energy of THF (-30.72 kcal/mol) and NADP+ (-73.72 kcal/mol) in THF-wtPfDHFR complex. The hydride ion donor-acceptor distance (DAD) analysis was also carried out. This combined MD and QM/MM analysis revealed that the protonation of DHF increases the proximity between the substrate and the cofactor, thus facilitates the reaction profile of PfDHFR.
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- Sheenu Abbat
- Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, 160 062, India
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- Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, 160 062, India
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- Department of Pharmacoinformatics, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, 160 062, India; Department of Medicinal Chemistry, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Sector 67, S.A.S. Nagar, Punjab, 160 062, India.
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Mhashal AR, Pshetitsky Y, Cheatum CM, Kohen A, Major DT. Evolutionary Effects on Bound Substrate pKa in Dihydrofolate Reductase. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:16650-16660. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Anil R. Mhashal
- Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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Mhashal AR, Pshetitsky Y, Eitan R, Cheatum CM, Kohen A, Major DT. Effect of Asp122 Mutation on the Hydride Transfer in E. coli DHFR Demonstrates the Goldilocks of Enzyme Flexibility. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:8006-8017. [PMID: 30040418 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b05556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) catalyzes the reduction of dihydrofolate (DHF) to tetrahydrofolate (THF) in the presence of NADPH. The key hydride transfer step in the reaction is facilitated by a combination of enzyme active site preorganization and correlated protein motions in the Michaelis-Menten (E:NADPH:DHF) complex. The present theoretical study employs mutagenesis to examine the relation between structural and functional properties of the enzyme. We mutate Asp122 in Escherichia coli DHFR, which is a conserved amino acid in the DHFR family. The consequent effect of the mutation on enzyme catalysis is examined from an energetic, structural and short-time dynamic perspective. Our investigations suggest that the structural and short-time dynamic perturbations caused by Asp122X mutations (X = Asn, Ser, Ala) are along the reaction coordinate and lower the rate of hydride transfer. Importantly, analysis of the correlated and principle component motions in the enzyme suggest that the mutation alters the coupled motions that are present in the wild-type enzyme. In the case of D122N and D122S, the mutations inhibit coupled motion, whereas in the case of D122A, the mutation enhances coupled motion, although all mutations result in similar rate reduction. These results emphasize a Goldilocks principle of enzyme flexibility, that is, enzymes should neither be too rigid nor too flexible.
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- Anil R Mhashal
- Department of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center of Computational Quantum Chemistry , Bar-Ilan University , Ramat-Gan 52900 , Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center of Computational Quantum Chemistry , Bar-Ilan University , Ramat-Gan 52900 , Israel
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- Department of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center of Computational Quantum Chemistry , Bar-Ilan University , Ramat-Gan 52900 , Israel
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Iowa , Iowa City , Iowa 52242 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Iowa , Iowa City , Iowa 52242 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center of Computational Quantum Chemistry , Bar-Ilan University , Ramat-Gan 52900 , Israel
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Loveridge EJ, Hroch L, Hughes RL, Williams T, Davies RL, Angelastro A, Luk LYP, Maglia G, Allemann RK. Reduction of Folate by Dihydrofolate Reductase from Thermotoga maritima. Biochemistry 2017; 56:1879-1886. [PMID: 28319664 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b01268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Mammalian dihydrofolate reductases (DHFRs) catalyze the reduction of folate more efficiently than the equivalent bacterial enzymes do, despite typically having similar efficiencies for the reduction of their natural substrate, dihydrofolate. In contrast, we show here that DHFR from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima can catalyze reduction of folate to tetrahydrofolate with an efficiency similar to that of reduction of dihydrofolate under saturating conditions. Nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry experiments showed no evidence of the production of free dihydrofolate during either the EcDHFR- or TmDHFR-catalyzed reductions of folate, suggesting that both enzymes perform the two reduction steps without release of the partially reduced substrate. Our results imply that the reaction proceeds more efficiently in TmDHFR than in EcDHFR because the more open active site of TmDHFR facilitates protonation of folate. Because T. maritima lives under extreme conditions where tetrahydrofolate is particularly prone to oxidation, this ability to salvage folate may impart an advantage to the bacterium by minimizing the squandering of a valuable cofactor.
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- E Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K.,Department of Chemistry, Swansea University , Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Drug Control, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague , Akademika Heyrovskeho 1203, 500 05 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K
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- School of Chemical Sciences, University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, U.K.,School of Chemical Sciences, University of Birmingham , Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, U.K
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Luk LYP, Ruiz-Pernía JJ, Adesina AS, Loveridge EJ, Tuñón I, Moliner V, Allemann RK. Chemical Ligation and Isotope Labeling to Locate Dynamic Effects during Catalysis by Dihydrofolate Reductase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 54:9016-20. [PMID: 26079622 PMCID: PMC4985705 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201503968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Chemical ligation has been used to alter motions in specific regions of dihydrofolate reductase from E. coli and to investigate the effects of localized motional changes on enzyme catalysis. Two isotopic hybrids were prepared; one with the mobile N-terminal segment containing heavy isotopes ((2) H, (13) C, (15) N) and the remainder of the protein with natural isotopic abundance, and the other one with only the C-terminal segment isotopically labeled. Kinetic investigations indicated that isotopic substitution of the N-terminal segment affected only a physical step of catalysis, whereas the enzyme chemistry was affected by protein motions from the C-terminal segment. QM/MM studies support the idea that dynamic effects on catalysis mostly originate from the C-terminal segment. The use of isotope hybrids provides insights into the microscopic mechanism of dynamic coupling, which is difficult to obtain with other studies, and helps define the dynamic networks of intramolecular interactions central to enzyme catalysis.
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- Louis Y P Luk
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT (UK)
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- Departament de Química Física i Analítica, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castelló (Spain)
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT (UK)
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- Departament de Química Física, Universitat de València, 46100 Burjassot (Spain).
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- Departament de Química Física i Analítica, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castelló (Spain).
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT (UK).
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Luk LYP, Ruiz-Pernía JJ, Adesina AS, Loveridge EJ, Tuñón I, Moliner V, Allemann RK. Chemical Ligation and Isotope Labeling to Locate Dynamic Effects during Catalysis by Dihydrofolate Reductase. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201503968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Change in heat capacity accurately predicts vibrational coupling in enzyme catalyzed reactions. FEBS Lett 2015; 589:2200-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.06.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2015] [Revised: 06/24/2015] [Accepted: 06/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Doron D, Stojković V, Gakhar L, Vardi-Kilshtain A, Kohen A, Major DT. Free energy simulations of active-site mutants of dihydrofolate reductase. J Phys Chem B 2014; 119:906-16. [PMID: 25382260 DOI: 10.1021/jp5059963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
Abstract
This study employs hybrid quantum mechanics-molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations to investigate the effect of mutations of the active-site residue I14 of E. coli dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) on the hydride transfer. Recent kinetic measurements of the I14X mutants (X = V, A, and G) indicated slower hydride transfer rates and increasingly temperature-dependent kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) with systematic reduction of the I14 side chain. The QM/MM simulations show that when the original isoleucine residue is substituted in silico by valine, alanine, or glycine (I14V, I14A, and I14G DHFR, respectively), the free energy barrier height of the hydride transfer reaction increases relative to the wild-type enzyme. These trends are in line with the single-turnover rate measurements reported for these systems. In addition, extended dynamics simulations of the reactive Michaelis complex reveal enhanced flexibility in the mutants, and in particular for the I14G mutant, including considerable fluctuations of the donor-acceptor distance (DAD) and the active-site hydrogen bonding network compared with those detected in the native enzyme. These observations suggest that the perturbations induced by the mutations partly impair the active-site environment in the reactant state. On the other hand, the average DADs at the transition state of all DHFR variants are similar. Crystal structures of I14 mutants (V, A, and G) confirmed the trend of increased flexibility of the M20 and other loops.
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- Dvir Doron
- Department of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center of Computational Quantum Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University , Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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Behiry EM, Evans RM, Guo J, Loveridge EJ, Allemann RK. Loop interactions during catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase from Moritella profunda. Biochemistry 2014; 53:4769-74. [PMID: 25014120 DOI: 10.1021/bi500508z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) is often used as a model system to study the relation between protein dynamics and catalysis. We have studied a number of variants of the cold-adapted DHFR from Moritella profunda (MpDHFR), in which the catalytically important M20 and FG loops have been altered, and present a comparison with the corresponding variants of the well-studied DHFR from Escherichia coli (EcDHFR). Mutations in the M20 loop do not affect the actual chemical step of transfer of hydride from reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate to the substrate 7,8-dihydrofolate in the catalytic cycle in either enzyme; they affect the steady state turnover rate in EcDHFR but not in MpDHFR. Mutations in the FG loop also have different effects on catalysis by the two DHFRs. Despite the two enzymes most likely sharing a common catalytic cycle at pH 7, motions of these loops, known to be important for progression through the catalytic cycle in EcDHFR, appear not to play a significant role in MpDHFR.
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- Enas M Behiry
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Behiry EM, Luk LYP, Matthews SM, Loveridge EJ, Allemann RK. Role of the occluded conformation in bacterial dihydrofolate reductases. Biochemistry 2014; 53:4761-8. [PMID: 25014833 DOI: 10.1021/bi500507v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) from Escherichia coli (EcDHFR) adopts two major conformations, closed and occluded, and movement between these two conformations is important for progression through the catalytic cycle. DHFR from the cold-adapted organism Moritella profunda (MpDHFR) on the other hand is unable to form the two hydrogen bonds that stabilize the occluded conformation in EcDHFR and so remains in a closed conformation during catalysis. EcDHFR-S148P and MpDHFR-P150S were examined to explore the influence of the occluded conformation on catalysis by DHFR. Destabilization of the occluded conformation did not affect hydride transfer but altered the affinity for the oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP(+)) and changed the rate-determining step of the catalytic cycle for EcDHFR-S148P. Even in the absence of an occluded conformation, MpDHFR follows a kinetic pathway similar to that of EcDHFR with product release being the rate-limiting step in the steady state at pH 7, suggesting that MpDHFR uses a different strategy to modify its affinity for NADP(+). DHFRs from many organisms lack a hydrogen bond donor in the appropriate position and hence most likely do not form an occluded conformation. The link between conformational cycling between closed and occluded forms and progression through the catalytic cycle is specific to EcDHFR and not a general characteristic of prokaryotic DHFR catalysis.
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- Enas M Behiry
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Guo J, Luk LYP, Loveridge EJ, Allemann RK. Thermal adaptation of dihydrofolate reductase from the moderate thermophile Geobacillus stearothermophilus. Biochemistry 2014; 53:2855-63. [PMID: 24730604 PMCID: PMC4065160 DOI: 10.1021/bi500238q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The thermal melting temperature of dihydrofolate reductase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus (BsDHFR) is ~30 °C higher than that of its homologue from the psychrophile Moritella profunda. Additional proline residues in the loop regions of BsDHFR have been proposed to enhance the thermostability of BsDHFR, but site-directed mutagenesis studies reveal that these proline residues contribute only minimally. Instead, the high thermal stability of BsDHFR is partly due to removal of water-accessible thermolabile residues such as glutamine and methionine, which are prone to hydrolysis or oxidation at high temperatures. The extra thermostability of BsDHFR can be obtained by ligand binding, or in the presence of salts or cosolvents such as glycerol and sucrose. The sum of all these incremental factors allows BsDHFR to function efficiently in the natural habitat of G. stearothermophilus, which is characterized by temperatures that can reach 75 °C.
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- Jiannan Guo
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University , Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Solvent environments significantly affect the enzymatic function of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase: comparison of wild-type protein and active-site mutant D27E. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2013; 1834:2782-94. [PMID: 24140567 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2013.09.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2013] [Revised: 09/17/2013] [Accepted: 09/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
To investigate the contribution of solvent environments to the enzymatic function of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), the salt-, pH-, and pressure-dependence of the enzymatic function of the wild-type protein were compared with those of the active-site mutant D27E in relation to their structure and stability. The salt concentration-dependence of enzymatic activity indicated that inorganic cations bound to and inhibited the activity of wild-type DHFR at neutral pH. The BaCl2 concentration-dependence of the (1)H-(15)N HSQC spectra of the wild-type DHFR-folate binary complex showed that the cation-binding site was located adjacent to the Met20 loop. The insensitivity of the D27E mutant to univalent cations, the decreased optimal pH for its enzymatic activity, and the increased Km and Kd values for its substrate dihydrofolate suggested that the substrate-binding cleft of the mutant was slightly opened to expose the active-site side chain to the solvent. The marginally increased fluorescence intensity and decreased volume change due to unfolding of the mutant also supported this structural change or the modified cavity and hydration. Surprisingly, the enzymatic activity of the mutant increased with pressurization up to 250MPa together with negative activation volumes of -4.0 or -4.8mL/mol, depending on the solvent system, while that of the wild-type was decreased and had positive activation volumes of 6.1 or 7.7mL/mol. These results clearly indicate that the insertion of a single methylene at the active site could substantially change the enzymatic reaction mechanism of DHFR, and solvent environments play important roles in the function of this enzyme.
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Guo J, Loveridge EJ, Luk LYP, Allemann RK. Effect of Dimerization on Dihydrofolate Reductase Catalysis. Biochemistry 2013; 52:3881-7. [DOI: 10.1021/bi4005073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jiannan Guo
- School of Chemistry and
Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff
CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry and
Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff
CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry and
Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff
CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry and
Cardiff Catalysis Institute, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff
CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Liuni P, Olkhov-Mitsel E, Orellana A, Wilson DJ. Measuring kinetic isotope effects in enzyme reactions using time-resolved electrospray mass spectrometry. Anal Chem 2013; 85:3758-64. [PMID: 23461634 DOI: 10.1021/ac400191t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kinetic isotope effect (KIE) measurements are a powerful tool for studying enzyme mechanisms; they can provide insights into microscopic catalytic processes and even structural constraints for transition states. However, KIEs have not come into widespread use in enzymology, due in large part to the requirement for prohibitively cumbersome experimental procedures and daunting analytical frameworks. In this work, we introduce time-resolved electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (TRESI-MS) as a straightforward, precise, and inexpensive method for measuring KIEs. Neither radioisotopes nor large amounts of material are needed and kinetic measurements for isotopically "labeled" and "unlabeled" species are acquired simultaneously in a single "competitive" assay. The approach is demonstrated first using a relatively large isotope effect associated with yeast alcohol dehydrogenase (YADH) catalyzed oxidation of ethanol. The measured macroscopic KIE of 2.19 ± 0.05 is consistent with comparable measurements in the literature but cannot be interpreted in a way that provides insights into isotope effects in individual microscopic steps. To demonstrate the ability of TRESI-MS to directly measure intrinsic KIEs and to characterize the precision of the technique, we measure a much smaller (12)C/(13)C KIE associated specifically with presteady state acylation of chymotrypsin during hydrolysis of an ester substrate.
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- Peter Liuni
- Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Weikl TR, Boehr DD. Conformational selection and induced changes along the catalytic cycle of Escherichia coli
dihydrofolate reductase. Proteins 2012; 80:2369-83. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.24123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2012] [Revised: 05/02/2012] [Accepted: 05/09/2012] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Dametto M, Antoniou D, Schwartz SD. Barrier Crossing in Dihydrofolate Reductasedoes not involve a rate-promoting vibration. Mol Phys 2012; 110:531-536. [PMID: 22942460 PMCID: PMC3430383 DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2012.655337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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We have studied atomic motions during the chemical reaction catalyzed by the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase of Escherichia coli (EcDHFR), an important enzyme for nucleic acid synthesis. In our earlier work on the enzymes human lactate dehydrogenase and purine nucleoside phosphorylase, we had identified fast sub-ps motions that are part of the reaction coordinate. We employed Transition Path Sampling (TPS) and our recently developed reaction coordinate identification methodology to investigate if such fast motions couple to the reaction in DHFR on the barrier-crossing timescale. While we identified some protein motions near the barrier crossing event, these motions do not constitute a compressive promoting vibration, and do not appear as a clearly identifiable protein component in reaction.
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- Mariangela Dametto
- Dept of Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Dept of Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Dept of Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
- Dept of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
- Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
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Loveridge EJ, Behiry EM, Guo J, Allemann RK. Evidence that a 'dynamic knockout' in Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase does not affect the chemical step of catalysis. Nat Chem 2012; 4:292-7. [PMID: 22437714 DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2011] [Accepted: 02/06/2012] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The question of whether protein motions play a role in the chemical step of enzymatic catalysis has generated much controversy in recent years. Debate has recently reignited over possible dynamic contributions to catalysis in dihydrofolate reductase, following conflicting conclusions from studies of the N23PP/S148A variant of the Escherichia coli enzyme. By investigating the temperature dependence of kinetic isotope effects, we present evidence that the reduction in the hydride transfer rate constants in this variant is not a direct result of impairment of conformational fluctuations. Instead, the conformational state of the enzyme immediately before hydride transfer, which determines the electrostatic environment of the active site, affects the rate constant for the reaction. Although protein motions are clearly important for binding and release of substrates and products, there appears to be no detectable dynamic coupling of protein motions to the hydride transfer step itself.
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- E Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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Loveridge EJ, Tey LH, Behiry EM, Dawson WM, Evans RM, Whittaker SBM, Günther UL, Williams C, Crump MP, Allemann RK. The role of large-scale motions in catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:20561-70. [PMID: 22060818 PMCID: PMC3590880 DOI: 10.1021/ja208844j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Dihydrofolate reductase has long been used as a model system to study the coupling of protein motions to enzymatic hydride transfer. By studying environmental effects on hydride transfer in dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) from the cold-adapted bacterium Moritella profunda (MpDHFR) and comparing the flexibility of this enzyme to that of DHFR from Escherichia coli (EcDHFR), we demonstrate that factors that affect large-scale (i.e., long-range, but not necessarily large amplitude) protein motions have no effect on the kinetic isotope effect on hydride transfer or its temperature dependence, although the rates of the catalyzed reaction are affected. Hydrogen/deuterium exchange studies by NMR-spectroscopy show that MpDHFR is a more flexible enzyme than EcDHFR. NMR experiments with EcDHFR in the presence of cosolvents suggest differences in the conformational ensemble of the enzyme. The fact that enzymes from different environmental niches and with different flexibilities display the same behavior of the kinetic isotope effect on hydride transfer strongly suggests that, while protein motions are important to generate the reaction ready conformation, an optimal conformation with the correct electrostatics and geometry for the reaction to occur, they do not influence the nature of the chemical step itself; large-scale motions do not couple directly to hydride transfer proper in DHFR.
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- E Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Loveridge EJ, Allemann RK. Effect of pH on hydride transfer by Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase. Chembiochem 2011; 12:1258-62. [PMID: 21506230 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2010] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The kinetic isotope effect (KIE) on hydride transfer in the reaction catalysed by dihydrofolate reductase from Escherichia coli (EcDHFR) is known to be temperature dependent at pH 7, but essentially independent of temperature at elevated pH. Here, we show that the transition from the temperature-dependent regime to the temperature-independent regime occurs sharply between pH 7.5 and 8. The activation energy for hydride transfer is independent of pH. The mechanism leading to the change in behaviour of the KIEs is not clear, but probably involves a conformational change in the enzyme brought about by deprotonation of a key residue (or residues) at high pH. The KIE on hydride transfer at low pH suggests that the rate constant for the reaction is not limited by a conformational change to the enzyme under these conditions. The effect of pH on the temperature dependence of the rate constants and KIEs for hydride transfer catalysed by EcDHFR suggests that enzyme motions and conformational changes do not directly influence the chemistry, but that the reaction conditions affect the conformational ensemble of the enzyme prior to reaction and control the reaction though this route.
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- E Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, UK
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Brut M, Estève A, Landa G, Renvez G, Djafari Rouhani M, Vaisset M. Atomic Scale Determination of Enzyme Flexibility and Active Site Stability through Static Modes: Case of Dihydrofolate Reductase. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:1616-22. [DOI: 10.1021/jp109874z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Marie Brut
- LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE, LAAS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
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- LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE, LAAS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE, LAAS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE, LAAS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE, LAAS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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- LAAS-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse, France
- Université de Toulouse, UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE, LAAS, F-31077 Toulouse, France
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Evans RM, Behiry EM, Tey LH, Guo J, Loveridge EJ, Allemann RK. Catalysis by Dihydrofolate Reductase from the Psychropiezophile Moritella profunda. Chembiochem 2010; 11:2010-7. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201000341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Loveridge EJ, Allemann RK. The temperature dependence of the kinetic isotope effects of dihydrofolate reductase from Thermotoga maritima is influenced by intersubunit interactions. Biochemistry 2010; 49:5390-6. [PMID: 20515024 DOI: 10.1021/bi100761x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Dihydrofolate reductase from the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima (TmDHFR) is unique among structurally characterized chromosomal DHFRs in that it forms a stable homodimer. Dimerization is believed to play a key role in the high thermal stability of TmDHFR, which is reflected in a melting temperature in excess of 85 degrees C. The dimer interface of TmDHFR is composed of a hydrophobic core with charged residues around the periphery. In particular, Lys129 of each subunit forms three-membered salt bridges with Glu136 and Glu138 of the other subunit. To probe the role of these salt bridges in the dimerization and thermal stability of TmDHFR, we generated a series of variants (TmDHFR-K129E, TmDHFR-E136K, TmDHFR-E138K, and TmDHFR-E136K/E138K) in which these residues were exchanged for residues whose side chains bear the opposite charge. Our results indicate that these salt bridges are key for the high thermal stability of TmDHFR but are not a requirement for dimerization. Although the rate of dihydrofolate reduction by TmDHFR is not significantly affected by the loss of the K129-E136-E138 salt bridges, changes to the temperature dependence of the kinetic isotope effect on hydride transfer are observed. These changes are in agreement with the proposal that DHFR catalysis may be affected by changes to the conformational ensemble of the enzyme rather than only to the coupling of protein motions to the reaction coordinate.
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- E Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Truhlar DG. Tunneling in enzymatic and nonenzymatic hydrogen transfer reactions. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.1676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Loveridge EJ, Tey LH, Allemann RK. Solvent effects on catalysis by Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:1137-43. [PMID: 20047317 DOI: 10.1021/ja909353c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Hydride transfer catalyzed by dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) has been described previously within an environmentally coupled model of hydrogen tunneling, where protein motions control binding of substrate and cofactor to generate a tunneling ready conformation and modulate the width of the activation barrier and hence the reaction rate. Changes to the composition of the reaction medium are known to perturb protein motions. We have measured kinetic parameters of the reaction catalyzed by DHFR from Escherichia coli in the presence of various cosolvents and cosolutes and show that the dielectric constant, but not the viscosity, of the reaction medium affects the rate of reaction. Neither the primary kinetic isotope effect on the reaction nor its temperature dependence were affected by changes to the bulk solvent properties. These results are in agreement with our previous report on the effect of solvent composition on catalysis by DHFR from the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima. However, the effect of solvent on the temperature dependence of the kinetic isotope effect on hydride transfer catalyzed by E. coli DHFR is difficult to explain within a model, in which long-range motions couple to the chemical step of the reaction, but may indicate the existence of a short-range promoting vibration or the presence of multiple nearly isoenergetic conformational substates of enzymes with similar but distinct catalytic properties.
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- E Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
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Watt CIF. Primary kinetic hydrogen isotope effects in deprotonations of carbon acids. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2010. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.1671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Computer simulations of quantum tunnelling in enzyme-catalysed hydrogen transfer reactions. Interdiscip Sci 2010; 2:78-97. [DOI: 10.1007/s12539-010-0093-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2009] [Revised: 12/04/2009] [Accepted: 12/06/2009] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Kamerlin SCL, Warshel A. An Analysis of All the Relevant Facts and Arguments Indicates that Enzyme Catalysis Does Not Involve Large Contributions from Nuclear Tunneling. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2010; 23:677-684. [PMID: 21494414 DOI: 10.1002/poc.1620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Shina C L Kamerlin
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, 3620 McClintock Ave., Los Angeles CA-90089, USA
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Hay S, Evans RM, Levy C, Loveridge EJ, Wang X, Leys D, Allemann RK, Scrutton NS. Are the Catalytic Properties of Enzymes from Piezophilic Organisms Pressure Adapted? Chembiochem 2009; 10:2348-53. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200900367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Loveridge EJ, Rodriguez RJ, Swanwick RS, Allemann RK. Effect of Dimerization on the Stability and Catalytic Activity of Dihydrofolate Reductase from the Hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima. Biochemistry 2009; 48:5922-33. [DOI: 10.1021/bi900411a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- E. Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom
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Loveridge EJ, Behiry EM, Swanwick RS, Allemann RK. Different Reaction Mechanisms for Mesophilic and Thermophilic Dihydrofolate Reductases. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:6926-7. [DOI: 10.1021/ja901441k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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- E. Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, U.K
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Much work has gone into understanding the physical basis of the enormous catalytic power of enzymes over the last 50 years or so. Nevertheless, the detailed mechanism used by Nature's catalysts to speed chemical transformations remains elusive. DHFR (dihydrofolate reductase) has served as a paradigm to study the relationship between the structure, function and dynamics of enzymatic transformations. A complex reaction cascade, which involves rearrangements and movements of loops and domains of the enzyme, is used to orientate cofactor and substrate in a reactive configuration from which hydride is transferred by quantum mechanical tunnelling. In the present paper, we review results from experiments that probe the influence of protein dynamics on the chemical step of the reaction catalysed by TmDHFR (DHFR from Thermotoga maritima). This enzyme appears to have evolved an optimal structure that can maintain a catalytically competent conformation under extreme conditions.
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Loveridge EJ, Evans RM, Allemann RK. Solvent effects on environmentally coupled hydrogen tunnelling during catalysis by dihydrofolate reductase from Thermotoga maritima. Chemistry 2008; 14:10782-8. [PMID: 18924193 DOI: 10.1002/chem.200801804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Protein motions may be perturbed by altering the properties of the reaction medium. Here we show that dielectric constant, but not viscosity, affects the rate of the hydride-transfer reaction catalysed by dihydrofolate reductase from Thermotoga maritima (TmDHFR), in which quantum-mechanical tunnelling has previously been shown to be driven by protein motions. Neither dielectric constant nor viscosity directly alters the kinetic isotope effect of the reaction or the mechanism of coupling of protein motions to tunnelling. Glycerol and sucrose cause a significant increase in the rate of hydride transfer, but lead to a reduction in the magnitude of the kinetic isotope effect as well as an extension of the temperature range over which "passive" protein dynamics (rather than "active" gating motions) dominate the reaction. Our results are in agreement with the proposal that non-equilibrium dynamical processes (promoting motions) drive the hydride-transfer reaction in TmDHFR.
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- E Joel Loveridge
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
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Hay S, Pudney CR, Sutcliffe MJ, Scrutton NS. Solvent as a probe of active site motion and chemistry during the hydrogen tunnelling reaction in morphinone reductase. Chemphyschem 2008; 9:1875-81. [PMID: 18668493 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200800303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The reductive half-reaction of morphinone reductase involves a hydride transfer from enzyme-bound beta-nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) to a flavin mononucleotide (FMN). We have previously demonstrated that this step proceeds via a quantum mechanical tunnelling mechanism. Herein, we probe the effect of the solvent on the active site chemistry. The pK(a) of the reduced FMN N1 is 7.4+/-0.7, based on the pH-dependence of the FMN midpoint potential. We rule out that protonation of the reduced FMN N1 is coupled to the preceding H-transfer as both the rate and temperature-dependence of the reaction are insensitive to changes in solution pH above and below this pK(a). Further, the solvent kinetic isotope effect is approximately 1.0 and both the 1 degrees and 2 degrees KIEs are insensitive to solution pH. The effect of the solvent's dielectric constant is investigated and the rate of H-transfer is found to be unaffected by changes in the dielectric constant between approximately 60 and 80. We suggest that, while there is crystallographic evidence for some water in the active site, the putative promoting motion involved in the H-tunnelling reaction is insensitive to such changes.
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- Sam Hay
- Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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Hay S, Pang J, Monaghan PJ, Wang X, Evans RM, Sutcliffe MJ, Allemann RK, Scrutton NS. Secondary kinetic isotope effects as probes of environmentally-coupled enzymatic hydrogen tunneling reactions. Chemphyschem 2008; 9:1536-9. [PMID: 18613201 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.200800291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Sam Hay
- Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
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Hay S, Scrutton NS. H-transfers in Photosystem II: what can we learn from recent lessons in the enzyme community? PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH 2008; 98:169-177. [PMID: 18766465 DOI: 10.1007/s11120-008-9326-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2008] [Accepted: 06/28/2008] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Over the last 10 years, studies of enzyme systems have demonstrated that, in many cases, H-transfers occur by a quantum mechanical tunneling mechanism analogous to long-range electron transfer. H-transfer reactions can be described by an extension of Marcus theory and, by substituting hydrogen with deuterium (or even tritium), it is possible to explore this theory in new ways by employing kinetic isotope effects. Because hydrogen has a relatively short deBroglie wavelength, H-transfers are controlled by the width of the reaction barrier. By coupling protein dynamics to the reaction coordinate, enzymes have the potential ability to facilitate more efficient H-tunneling by modulating barrier properties. In this review, we describe recent advances in both experimental and theoretical studies of enzymatic H-transfer, in particular the role of protein dynamics or promoting motions. We then discuss possible consequences with regard to tyrosine oxidation/reduction kinetics in Photosystem II.
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- Sam Hay
- Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
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Thielges MC, Case DA, Romesberg FE. Carbon-deuterium bonds as probes of dihydrofolate reductase. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:6597-603. [PMID: 18412341 DOI: 10.1021/ja0779607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Much effort has been directed toward understanding the contributions of electrostatics and dynamics to protein function and especially to enzyme catalysis. Unfortunately, these studies have been limited by the absence of direct experimental probes. We have been developing the use of carbon-deuterium bonds as probes of proteins and now report the application of the technique to the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase, which catalyzes a hydride transfer and has served as a paradigm for biological catalysis. We observe that the stretching absorption frequency of (methyl- d 3) methionine carbon-deuterium bonds shows an approximately linear dependence on solvent dielectric. Solvent and computational studies support the empirical interpretation of the stretching frequency in terms of local polarity. To begin to explore the use of this technique to study enzyme function and mechanism, we report a preliminary analysis of (methyl- d 3) methionine residues within dihydrofolate reductase. Specifically, we characterize the IR absorptions at Met16 and Met20, within the catalytically important Met20 loop, and Met42, which is located within the hydrophobic core of the enzyme. The results confirm the sensitivity of the carbon-deuterium bonds to their local protein environment, demonstrate that dihydrofolate reductase is electrostatically and dynamically heterogeneous, and lay the foundation for the direct characterization protein electrostatics and dynamics and, potentially, their contribution to catalysis.
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- Megan C Thielges
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California, 92037, USA
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Liu H, Warshel A. Origin of the Temperature Dependence of Isotope Effects in Enzymatic Reactions: The Case of Dihydrofolate Reductase. J Phys Chem B 2007; 111:7852-61. [PMID: 17571875 DOI: 10.1021/jp070938f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The origin of the temperature dependence of kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) in enzyme reactions is a problem of general interest and a major challenge for computational chemistry. The present work simulates the nuclear quantum mechanical (NQM) effects and the corresponding KIE in dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) and two of its mutants by using the empirical valence bond (EVB) and the quantum classical path (QCP) centroid path integral approach. Our simulations reproduce the overall observed trend while using a fully microscopic rather than a phenomenological picture and provide an interesting insight. It appears that the KIE increases when the distance between the donor and acceptor increases, in a somewhat counter intuitive way. The temperature dependence of the KIE appears to reflect mainly the temperature dependence of the distance between the donor and acceptor. This trend is also obtained from a simplified vibronic treatment, but as demonstrated here, the vibronic treatment is not valid at short and medium distances, where it is essential to use the path integral or other approaches capable of moving seamlessly from the adiabatic to the diabatic limits. It is pointed out that although the NQM effects do not contribute to catalysis in DHFR, the observed temperature dependence can be used to refine the potential of mean force for the donor and acceptor distance and its change due to distanced mutations.
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- Hanbin Liu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, 3620 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90089-1062, USA
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Johannissen LO, Hay S, Scrutton NS, Sutcliffe MJ. Proton tunneling in aromatic amine dehydrogenase is driven by a short-range sub-picosecond promoting vibration: consistency of simulation and theory with experiment. J Phys Chem B 2007; 111:2631-8. [PMID: 17305385 DOI: 10.1021/jp066276w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Hydrogen transfer, an essential component of most biological reactions, is a quantum problem. However, the proposed role of compressive motion in promoting enzymatic H-transfer is contentious. Using molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we show that, during proton tunneling in the oxidative deamination of tryptamine catalyzed by the enzyme aromatic amine dehydrogenase (AADH), a sub-picosecond promoting vibration is inherent to the iminoquinone intermediate. We show by numerical modeling that this short-range vibration, with a frequency of approximately 165 cm-1, is consistent with "gating" motion in the hydrogen tunneling model of Kuznetsov and Ulstrup (Kuznetsov, A. M.; Ulstrup, J. Can. J. Chem. 1999, 77, 1085) in an enzymatic reaction with an observed protium/deuterium kinetic isotope effect that is not measurably temperature-dependent.
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- Linus O Johannissen
- Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, U.K
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Hay S, Sutcliffe MJ, Scrutton NS. Promoting motions in enzyme catalysis probed by pressure studies of kinetic isotope effects. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:507-12. [PMID: 17202258 PMCID: PMC1766415 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608408104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Use of the pressure dependence of kinetic isotope effects, coupled with a study of their temperature dependence, as a probe for promoting motions in enzymatic hydrogen-tunneling reactions is reported. Employing morphinone reductase as our model system and by using stopped-flow methods, we measured the hydride transfer rate (a tunneling reaction) as a function of hydrostatic pressure and temperature. Increasing the pressure from 1 bar (1 bar = 100 kPa) to 2 kbar accelerates the hydride transfer reaction when both protium (from 50 to 161 s(-1) at 25 degrees C) and deuterium (12 to 31 s(-1) at 25 degrees C) are transferred. We found that the observed primary kinetic isotope effect increases with pressure (from 4.0 to 5.2 at 25 degrees C), an observation incompatible with the Bell correction model for hydrogen tunneling but consistent with a full tunneling model. By numerical modeling, we show that both the pressure and temperature dependencies of the reaction rates are consistent with the framework of the environmentally coupled tunneling model of Kuznetsov and Ulstrup [Kuznetsov AM, Ulstrup J (1999) Can J Chem 77:1085-1096], providing additional support for the role of a promoting motion in the hydride tunneling reaction in morphinone reductase. Our study demonstrates the utility of "barrier engineering" by using hydrostatic pressure as a probe for tunneling regimes in enzyme systems and provides added and independent support for the requirement of promoting motions in such tunneling reactions.
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- Sam Hay
- *Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and
- Faculty of Life Science and
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- *Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and
- School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7ND, United Kingdom
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- *Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre and
- Faculty of Life Science and
- To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Allemann RK, Evans RM, Tey LH, Maglia G, Pang J, Rodriguez R, Shrimpton PJ, Swanwick RS. Protein motions during catalysis by dihydrofolate reductases. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2006; 361:1317-21. [PMID: 16873119 PMCID: PMC1647303 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1865] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) maintains the intracellular pool of tetrahydrofolate through catalysis of hydrogen transfer from reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide to 7,8-dihydrofolate. We report results for pre-steady-state kinetic studies of the temperature dependence of the rates and the hydrogen/deuterium-kinetic isotope effects for the reactions catalysed by the enzymes from the mesophilic Escherichia coli and the hyperthermophilic Thermatoga maritima. We propose an evolutionary pattern in which catalysis progressed from a relatively rigid active site structure in the ancient thermophilic DHFR to a more flexible and kinetically more efficient structure in E. coli that actively promotes hydrogen transfer at physiological pH by modulating the tunnelling distance. The E. coli enzyme appeared relatively robust, in that kinetically severely compromised mutants still actively propagated the reaction. The reduced hydrogen transfer rates of the extensively studied Gly121Val mutant of DHFR from E. coli were most likely due to sterically unfavourable long-range effects from the introduction of the bulky isopropyl group.
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- Rudolf K Allemann
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK.
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Pang J, Pu J, Gao J, Truhlar DG, Allemann RK. Hydride Transfer Reaction Catalyzed by Hyperthermophilic Dihydrofolate Reductase Is Dominated by Quantum Mechanical Tunneling and Is Promoted by Both Inter- and Intramonomeric Correlated Motions. J Am Chem Soc 2006; 128:8015-23. [PMID: 16771517 DOI: 10.1021/ja061585l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Simulations of hydride and deuteride transfer catalyzed by dihydrofolate reductase from the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima (TmDHFR) are presented. TmDHFR was modeled with its active homodimeric quaternary structure, where each monomer has three subdomains. The potential energy function was a combined quantum mechanical and molecular mechanical potential (69 atoms were treated quantum mechanically, and 35 287, by molecular mechanics). The calculations of the rate constants by ensemble-averaged variational transition state theory with multidimensional tunneling predicted that hydride and deuteride transfer at 278 K proceeded with 81 and 80% by tunneling. These percentages decreased to 50 and 49% at 338 K. The kinetic isotope effect was dominated by contributions of bound vibrations and decreased from 3.0 to 2.2 over the temperature range. The calculated rates for hydride and deuteride transfer catalyzed by the hypothetical monomer were smaller by approximately 2 orders of magnitude. At 298 K tunneling contributed 73 and 66% to hydride and deuteride transfer in the monomer. The decreased catalytic efficiency of the monomer was therefore not the result of a decrease of the tunneling contribution but an increase in the quasi-classical activation free energy. The catalytic effect was associated in the dimer with correlated motions between domains as well as within and between subunits. The intrasubunit correlated motions were decreased in the monomer when compared to both native dimeric TmDHFR and monomeric E. coli enzyme. TmDHFR and its E. coli homologue involve similar patterns of correlated interactions that affect the free energy barrier of hydride transfer despite only 27% sequence identity and different quaternary structures.
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- Jiayun Pang
- School of Chemistry, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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Sutcliffe MJ, Scrutton NS. Computational studies of enzyme mechanism: linking theory with experiment in the analysis of enzymic H-tunnelling. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2006; 8:4510-6. [PMID: 17047748 DOI: 10.1039/b609622k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hydrogen transfer--an essential component of most biological reactions--is a quantum problem. A crucial question of great current interest is how enzymes modulate the quantum dynamics of hydrogen transfer to achieve their outstanding catalytic properties. That tunnelling occurs is now widely accepted, with the conceptual frameworks incorporating protein motion into the enzymic H-tunnelling process. Computational simulation can be used to help elucidate how enzymes work and facilitate H-tunnelling at the atomic level. We review the strength of a multidisciplinary approach--combining computational simulations with enzyme kinetics and structural biology--in revealing tunnelling mechanisms in enzymes. We focus on two paradigm systems--aromatic amine dehydrogenase, in which H-tunnelling is facilitated by fast (sub-picosecond) short range motions, and dihydrofolate reductase, in which a network of long-range coupled motions drives the tunnelling event.
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- Michael J Sutcliffe
- Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, and School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, UK.
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