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Yang C, Zhu B, Zhan M, Hua ZC. Lithium in Cancer Therapy: Friend or Foe? Cancers (Basel) 2023; 15:cancers15041095. [PMID: 36831437 PMCID: PMC9954674 DOI: 10.3390/cancers15041095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2022] [Revised: 01/29/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
Abstract
Lithium, a trace element important for fetal health and development, is considered a metal drug with a well-established clinical regime, economical production process, and a mature storage system. Several studies have shown that lithium affects tumor development by regulating inositol monophosphate (IMPase) and glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3). Lithium can also promote proliferation and programmed cell death (PCD) in tumor cells through a number of new targets, such as the nuclear receptor NR4A1 and Hedgehog-Gli. Lithium may increase cancer treatment efficacy while reducing side effects, suggesting that it can be used as an adjunctive therapy. In this review, we summarize the effects of lithium on tumor progression and discuss the underlying mechanisms. Additionally, we discuss lithium's limitations in antitumor clinical applications, including its narrow therapeutic window and potential pro-cancer effects on the tumor immune system.
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- Chunhao Yang
- School of Biopharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China
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- School of Biopharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China
- Correspondence: (B.Z.); (Z.-C.H.)
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- School of Biopharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China
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- School of Biopharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, China
- The State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Correspondence: (B.Z.); (Z.-C.H.)
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Dollins DE, Xiong JP, Endo-Streeter S, Anderson DE, Bansal VS, Ponder JW, Ren Y, York JD. A structural basis for lithium and substrate binding of an inositide phosphatase. J Biol Chem 2021; 296:100059. [PMID: 33172890 PMCID: PMC7948987 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2020] [Revised: 10/29/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase (INPP1) is a prototype member of metal-dependent/lithium-inhibited phosphomonoesterase protein family defined by a conserved three-dimensional core structure. Enzymes within this family function in distinct pathways including inositide signaling, gluconeogenesis, and sulfur assimilation. Using structural and biochemical studies, we report the effect of substrate and lithium on a network of metal binding sites within the catalytic center of INPP1. We find that lithium preferentially occupies a key site involved in metal-activation only when substrate or product is added. Mutation of a conserved residue that selectively coordinates the putative lithium-binding site results in a dramatic 100-fold reduction in the inhibitory constant as compared with wild-type. Furthermore, we report the INPP1/inositol 1,4-bisphosphate complex which illuminates key features of the enzyme active site. Our results provide insights into a structural basis for uncompetitive lithium inhibition and substrate recognition and define a sequence motif for metal binding within this family of regulatory phosphatases.
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- D Eric Dollins
- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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MURATA K. Polyphosphate-dependent nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) kinase: A novel missing link in human mitochondria. PROCEEDINGS OF THE JAPAN ACADEMY. SERIES B, PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2021; 97:479-498. [PMID: 34629356 PMCID: PMC8553519 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.97.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Polyphosphate [poly(P)] is described as a homopolymer of inorganic phosphates. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide kinase (NAD kinase) catalyzes the phosphorylation of NAD+ to NADP+ in the presence of ATP (ATP-NAD kinase). Novel NAD kinase that explicitly phosphorylates NAD+ to NADP+ using poly(P), besides ATP [ATP/poly(P)-NAD kinase], was found in bacteria, in particular, Gram-positive bacteria, and the gene encoding ATP/poly(P)-NAD kinase was also newly identified in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Both NAD kinases required multi-homopolymeric structures for activity expression. The enzymatic and genetic results, combined with their primary and tertiary structures, have led to the discovery of a long-awaited human mitochondrial NAD kinase. This discovery showed that the NAD kinase is a bacterial type of ATP/poly(P)-NAD kinase. These pioneering findings, i.e., ATP/poly(P)-NAD kinase, NAD kinase gene, and human mitochondrial NAD kinase, have significantly enhanced research on the biochemistry, molecular biology, and evolutionary biology of NAD kinase, mitochondria, and poly(P), including some biotechnological knowledge applicable to NADP+ production.
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Réus GZ, de Moura AB, Borba LA, Abelaira HM, Quevedo J. Strategies for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Lessons Learned from Animal Models. MOLECULAR NEUROPSYCHIATRY 2019; 5:178-189. [PMID: 31768371 DOI: 10.1159/000500324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Around 300 million individuals are affected by major depressive disorder (MDD) in the world. Despite this high number of affected individuals, more than 50% of patients do not respond to antidepressants approved to treat MDD. Patients with MDD that do not respond to 2 or more first-line antidepressant treatments are considered to have treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Animal models of depression are important tools to better understand the pathophysiology of MDD as well as to help in the development of novel and fast antidepressants for TRD patients. This review will emphasize some discovery strategies for TRD from studies on animal models, including, antagonists of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor (ketamine and memantine), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), lithium, minocycline, quetiapine, and deep brain stimulation. Animal models of depression are not sufficient to represent all the traits of TRD, but they greatly aid in understanding the mechanism by which therapies that work for TRD exert antidepressant effects. Interestingly, these innovative therapies have mechanisms of action different from those of classic antidepressants. These effects are mainly related to the regulation of neurotransmitter activity, including general glutamate and increased connectivity, synaptic capacity, and neuroplasticity.
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- Gislaine Zilli Réus
- Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Health Sciences Unit, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Criciúma, Brazil
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- Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Health Sciences Unit, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Criciúma, Brazil
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- Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Health Sciences Unit, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Criciúma, Brazil
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- Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Health Sciences Unit, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Criciúma, Brazil
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- Translational Psychiatry Laboratory, Graduate Program in Health Sciences, Health Sciences Unit, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Criciúma, Brazil.,Center of Excellence on Mood Disorders, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, USA.,Translational Psychiatry Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, USA.,Neuroscience Graduate Program, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, USA
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Characterization of recombinant fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase gene mutations: evidence of inhibition/activation of FBPase protein by gene mutation. Biosci Rep 2019; 39:BSR20180960. [PMID: 30683805 PMCID: PMC6386767 DOI: 10.1042/bsr20180960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Revised: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Specific residues of the highly regulated fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase) enzyme serve as important contributors to the catalytic activity of the enzyme. Previous clinical studies exploring the genetic basis of hypoglycemia revealed two significant mutations in the coding region of the FBPase gene in patients with hypoglycemia, linking the AMP-binding site to the active site of the enzyme. In the present study, a full kinetic analysis of similar mutants was performed. Kinetic results of mutants Y164A and M177A revealed an approximate two to three-fold decrease in inhibitory constants (K i's) for natural inhibitors AMP and fructose-2,6-bisphosphate (F2,6-BP) compared with the Wild-type enzyme (WT). A separate mutation (M248D) was performed in the active site of the enzyme to investigate whether the enzyme could be activated. This mutant displayed an approximate seven-fold increase in K i for F2,6-BP. Interfacial mutants L56A and L73A exhibited an increase in K i for F2,6-BP by approximately five-fold. Mutations in the AMP-binding site (K112A and Y113A) demonstrated an eight to nine-fold decrease in AMP inhibition. Additionally, mutant M248D displayed a four-fold decrease in its apparent Michelis constant (K m), and a six-fold increase in catalytic efficiency (CE). The importance-and medical relevance-of specific residues for FBPase structural/functional relationships in both the catalytic site and AMP-binding site is discussed.
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Guo Y, Gong W, Wang L, Guo J, Jin G, Gu G, Guo Z. Characterization and biochemical investigation of the potential inositol monophosphate phosphatase involved in bacterial mycothiol biosynthesis. J Carbohydr Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/07328303.2018.1559326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yuchuan Guo
- National Glycoengineering Research Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- National Glycoengineering Research Center and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry and Glycobiology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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Catazaro J, Caprez A, Swanson D, Powers R. Functional Evolution of Proteins. Proteins 2019; 87:492-501. [PMID: 30714210 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25670] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 01/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The functional evolution of proteins advances through gene duplication followed by functional drift, whereas molecular evolution occurs through random mutational events. Over time, protein active-site structures or functional epitopes remain highly conserved, which enables relationships to be inferred between distant orthologs or paralogs. In this study, we present the first functional clustering and evolutionary analysis of the RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) based on similarities between active-site structures. All of the ligand-bound proteins within the RCSB PDB were scored using our Comparison of Protein Active-site Structures (CPASS) software and database (http://cpass.unl.edu/). Principal component analysis was then used to identify 4431 representative structures to construct a phylogenetic tree based on the CPASS comparative scores (http://itol.embl.de/shared/jcatazaro). The resulting phylogenetic tree identified a sequential, step-wise evolution of protein active-sites and provides novel insights into the emergence of protein function or changes in substrate specificity based on subtle changes in geometry and amino acid composition.
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- Jonathan Catazaro
- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
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- Holland Computing Center, Office of Research, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
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- Holland Computing Center, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.,Department of Chemistry, Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Goswami R, Bondoc JMG, Wheeler PR, Jafari A, Gonzalez T, Mehboob S, Movahedzadeh F. Inositol Monophosphatase: A Bifunctional Enzyme in Mycobacterium smegmatis. ACS OMEGA 2018; 3:13876-13881. [PMID: 30411052 PMCID: PMC6217659 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) is a crucial enzyme for the biosynthesis of phosphatidylinositol, an essential component in mycobacterial cell walls. IMPase A (ImpA) from Mycobacterium smegmatis is a bifunctional enzyme that also functions as a fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase). To better understand the bifunctional nature of this enzyme, point mutagenesis was conducted on several key residues and their enzyme activity was tested. Our results along with active site models support the fact that ImpA is a bifunctional enzyme with residues Gly94, Thr95 hypothesized to be contributing to the FBPase activity and residues Trp220, Asp221 hypothesized to be contributing to the IMPase activity. Double mutants, W220A + D221A reduced both FBPase and IMPase activity drastically while the double mutant G94A + T95A surprisingly partially restored the IMPase activity compared to the single mutants. This study establishes the foundation toward obtaining a better understanding of the bifunctional nature of this enzyme.
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- Rajendra Goswami
- Institute
for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, and Department of
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- Institute
for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, and Department of
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- Tuberculosis
Research, Animal and Plant Health Agency, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB, U.K.
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- Institute
for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, and Department of
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
- Inflammatory
Lung Disease Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
- Cellular
and Molecular Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
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- Institute
for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, and Department of
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- Neugenica
LLC, 2242 W Harrison
Street, #201, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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- Institute
for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, and Department of
Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States
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Cheng K, Zheng W, Chen H, Zhang YHPJ. Upgrade of wood sugar d-xylose to a value-added nutraceutical by in vitro metabolic engineering. Metab Eng 2018; 52:1-8. [PMID: 30389613 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2018.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2018] [Revised: 10/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The upgrade of D-xylose, the most abundant pentose, to value-added biochemicals is economically important to next-generation biorefineries. myo-Inositol, as vitamin B8, has a six-carbon carbon-carbon ring. Here we designed an in vitro artificial NAD(P)-free 12-enzyme pathway that can effectively convert the five-carbon xylose to inositol involving xylose phosphorylation, carbon-carbon (C-C) rearrangement, C-C bond circulation, and dephosphorylation. The reaction conditions catalyzed by all thermostable enzymes from hyperthermophilic microorganisms Thermus thermophiles, Thermotoga maritima, and Archaeoglobus fulgidus were optimized in reaction temperature, buffer type and concentration, enzyme composition, Mg2+ concentration, and fed-batch addition of ATP. The 11-enzyme cocktail, whereas a fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase from T. maritima has another function of inositol monophosphatase, converted 20 mM xylose to 16.1 mM inositol with a conversion efficiency of 96.6% at 70 °C. Polyphosphate was found to replace ATP for xylulose phosphorylation due to broad substrate promiscuity of the T. maritima xylulokinase. The Tris-HCl buffer effectively mitigated the Maillard reaction at 70 °C or higher temperature. The co-production of value-added biochemicals, such as inositol, from wood sugar could greatly improve economics of new biorefineries, similar to oil refineries that make value-added plastic precursors to subsidize gasoline/diesel production.
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- Kun Cheng
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops, Henan Agricultural University, 95 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou 450002, China; Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area, Tianjin 300308, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops, Henan Agricultural University, 95 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou 450002, China; College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, 95 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou 450002, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops, Henan Agricultural University, 95 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou 450002, China; College of Life Sciences, Henan Agricultural University, 95 Wenhua Road, Zhengzhou 450002, China.
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- Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 West 7th Avenue, Tianjin Airport Economic Area, Tianjin 300308, China.
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Kulis-Horn RK, Rückert C, Kalinowski J, Persicke M. Sequence-based identification of inositol monophosphatase-like histidinol-phosphate phosphatases (HisN) in Corynebacterium glutamicum, Actinobacteria, and beyond. BMC Microbiol 2017; 17:161. [PMID: 28720084 PMCID: PMC5516325 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-017-1069-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The eighth step of l-histidine biosynthesis is carried out by an enzyme called histidinol-phosphate phosphatase (HolPase). Three unrelated HolPase families are known so far. Two of them are well studied: HAD-type HolPases known from Gammaproteobacteria like Escherichia coli or Salmonella enterica and PHP-type HolPases known from yeast and Firmicutes like Bacillus subtilis. However, the third family of HolPases, the inositol monophosphatase (IMPase)-like HolPases, present in Actinobacteria like Corynebacterium glutamicum (HisN) and plants, are poorly characterized. Moreover, there exist several IMPase-like proteins in bacteria (e.g. CysQ, ImpA, and SuhB) which are very similar to HisN but most likely do not participate in l-histidine biosynthesis. Results Deletion of hisN, the gene encoding the IMPase-like HolPase in C. glutamicum, does not result in complete l-histidine auxotrophy. Out of four hisN homologs present in the genome of C. glutamicum (impA, suhB, cysQ, and cg0911), only cg0911 encodes an enzyme with HolPase activity. The enzymatic properties of HisN and Cg0911 were determined, delivering the first available kinetic data for IMPase-like HolPases. Additionally, we analyzed the amino acid sequences of potential HisN, ImpA, SuhB, CysQ and Cg0911 orthologs from bacteria and identified six conserved sequence motifs for each group of orthologs. Mutational studies confirmed the importance of a highly conserved aspartate residue accompanied by several aromatic amino acid residues present in motif 5 for HolPase activity. Several bacterial proteins containing all identified HolPase motifs, but showing only moderate sequence similarity to HisN from C. glutamicum, were experimentally confirmed as IMPase-like HolPases, demonstrating the value of the identified motifs. Based on the confirmed IMPase-like HolPases two profile Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) were build using an iterative approach. These HMMs allow the fast, reliable detection and differentiation of the two paralog groups from each other and other IMPases. Conclusion The kinetic data obtained for HisN from C. glutamicum, as an example for an IMPase-like HolPases, shows remarkable differences in enzyme properties as compared to HAD- or PHP-type HolPases. The six sequence motifs and the HMMs presented in this study can be used to reliably differentiate between IMPase-like HolPases and IMPase-like proteins with no such activity, with the potential to enhance current and future genome annotations. A phylogenetic analysis reveals that IMPase-like HolPases are not only present in Actinobacteria and plant but can be found in further bacterial phyla, including, among others, Proteobacteria, Chlorobi and Planctomycetes. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12866-017-1069-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Robert Kasimir Kulis-Horn
- Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 27, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 27, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 27, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Microbial Genomics and Biotechnology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 27, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany.
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Bondoc JMG, Wolf NM, Ndichuck M, Abad-Zapatero C, Movahedzadeh F. Mutagenesis of threonine to serine in the active site of Mycobacterium tuberculosis fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (Class II) retains partial enzyme activity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017; 15:48-54. [PMID: 28702369 PMCID: PMC5485559 DOI: 10.1016/j.btre.2017.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2017] [Revised: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 06/08/2017] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The glpX gene encodes for the Class II fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase enzyme in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mt), an essential enzyme for pathogenesis. We have performed site directed mutagenesis to introduce two mutations at residue Thr84, T84A and T84S, to explore the binding affinity of the substrate and the catalytic mechanism. The T84A mutant fully abolishes enzyme activity while retaining substrate binding affinity. In contrast, the T84S mutant retains some activity having a 10 times reduction in Vmax and exhibited similar sensitivity to lithium when compared to the wildtype. Homology modeling using the Escherichia coli enzyme structure suggests that the replacement of the critical nucleophile OH- in the Thr84 residue of the wildtype of MtFBPase by Ser84 results in subtle alterations of the position and orientation that reduce the catalytic efficiency. This mutant could be used to trap reaction intermediates, through crystallographic methods, facilitating the design of potent inhibitors via structure-based drug design.
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- Jasper Marc G Bondoc
- Institute for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Institute for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Institute for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Center for Biomolecular Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Institute for Tuberculosis Research, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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Martínez-Núñez MA, Rodríguez-Escamilla Z, Rodríguez-Vázquez K, Pérez-Rueda E. Tracing the Repertoire of Promiscuous Enzymes along the Metabolic Pathways in Archaeal Organisms. Life (Basel) 2017; 7:life7030030. [PMID: 28703743 PMCID: PMC5617955 DOI: 10.3390/life7030030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Revised: 07/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The metabolic pathways that carry out the biochemical transformations sustaining life depend on the efficiency of their associated enzymes. In recent years, it has become clear that promiscuous enzymes have played an important role in the function and evolution of metabolism. In this work we analyze the repertoire of promiscuous enzymes in 89 non-redundant genomes of the Archaea cellular domain. Promiscuous enzymes are defined as those proteins with two or more different Enzyme Commission (E.C.) numbers, according the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database. From this analysis, it was found that the fraction of promiscuous enzymes is lower in Archaea than in Bacteria. A greater diversity of superfamily domains is associated with promiscuous enzymes compared to specialized enzymes, both in Archaea and Bacteria, and there is an enrichment of substrate promiscuity rather than catalytic promiscuity in the archaeal enzymes. Finally, the presence of promiscuous enzymes in the metabolic pathways was found to be heterogeneously distributed at the domain level and in the phyla that make up the Archaea. These analyses increase our understanding of promiscuous enzymes and provide additional clues to the evolution of metabolism in Archaea.
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- Mario Alberto Martínez-Núñez
- Laboratorio de Estudios Ecogenómicos, Facultad de Ciencias, Unidad Académica de Ciencias y Tecnología de la UNAM en Yucatán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Carretera Sierra Papacal-Chuburna Km. 5, C.P. 97302, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Microbiología, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional, Autónoma de México, C.P. 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, C.P. 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico.
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- Departamento de Ingeniería Celular y Biocatálisis, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, C.P. 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
- Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Unidad Académica Yucatán, Carretera Sierra Papacal-Chuburna Km. 5, C.P. 97302, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
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Bhattacharyya S, Dutta A, Dutta D, Ghosh AK, Das AK. Structural elucidation of the NADP(H) phosphatase activity of staphylococcal dual-specific IMPase/NADP(H) phosphatase. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D-STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2016; 72:281-90. [PMID: 26894675 DOI: 10.1107/s2059798316000620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 01/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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NADP(H)/NAD(H) homeostasis has long been identified to play a pivotal role in the mitigation of reactive oxygen stress (ROS) in the intracellular milieu and is therefore critical for the progression and pathogenesis of many diseases. NAD(H) kinases and NADP(H) phosphatases are two key players in this pathway. Despite structural evidence demonstrating the existence and mode of action of NAD(H) kinases, the specific annotation and the mode of action of NADP(H) phosphatases remains obscure. Here, structural evidence supporting the alternative role of inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) as an NADP(H) phosphatase is reported. Crystal structures of staphylococcal dual-specific IMPase/NADP(H) phosphatase (SaIMPase-I) in complex with the substrates D-myo-inositol-1-phosphate and NADP(+) have been solved. The structure of the SaIMPase-I-Ca(2+)-NADP(+) ternary complex reveals the catalytic mode of action of NADP(H) phosphatase. Moreover, structures of SaIMPase-I-Ca(2+)-substrate complexes have reinforced the earlier proposal that the length of the active-site-distant helix α4 and its preceding loop are the predisposing factors for the promiscuous substrate specificity of SaIMPase-I. Altogether, the evidence presented suggests that IMPase-family enzymes with a shorter α4 helix could be potential candidates for previously unreported NADP(H) phosphatase activity.
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- Sudipta Bhattacharyya
- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721 302, India
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Faisal Tarique K, Arif Abdul Rehman S, Betzel C, Gourinath S. Structure-based identification of inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase from Entamoeba histolytica. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 70:3023-33. [PMID: 25372691 DOI: 10.1107/s1399004714021245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2014] [Accepted: 09/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase from Entamoeba histolytica (EhIPPase) is an Mg(2+)-dependent and Li(+)-sensitive enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of inositol 1,4-bisphosphate [Ins(1,4)P2] into myo-inositol 1-monophosphate and PO4(3-). In the present work, EhIPPase has been biochemically identified and its crystal structure has been determined in the presence of Mg(2+) and PO4(3-) at 2.5 Å resolution. This enzyme was previously classified as a 3'(2'),5'-bisphosphate nucleotidase in the NCBI, but its biochemical activity and structural analysis suggest that this enzyme behaves more like an inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase. The ability of EhIPPase to hydrolyze the smaller Ins(1,4)P2 better than the bulkier 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate (PAP) is explained on the basis of the orientations of amino-acid residues in the binding site. This structure is the first of its class to be determined from any protozoan parasite, and is the third to determined among all organisms, following its rat and bovine homologues. The three-dimensional fold of EhIPPase is similar to those of other members of the inositol monophosphatase superfamily, which also includes inositol monophosphatase, 3'(2'),5'-bisphosphate nucleotidase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate 1-phosphatase. They all share conserved residues essential for metal binding and substrate hydrolysis, with the motif D-Xn-EE-Xn-DP(I/L)DG(S/T)-Xn-WD-Xn-GG. The structure is divided into two domains, namely α+β and α/β, and the substrate and metal ions bind between them. However, the ability of each enzyme class to act specifically on its cognate substrate is governed by the class-specific amino-acid residues at the active site.
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- Laboratory for Structural Biology of Infection and Inflammation, Department of Chemistry, c/o DESY, University of Hamburg, Notkestrasse 85, 22603 Hamburg, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, India
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Dutta A, Bhattacharyya S, Dutta D, Das AK. Structural elucidation of the binding site and mode of inhibition of Li+and Mg2+in inositol monophosphatase. FEBS J 2014; 281:5309-24. [PMID: 25263816 DOI: 10.1111/febs.13070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2014] [Revised: 09/16/2014] [Accepted: 09/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- Anirudha Dutta
- Department of Biotechnology; Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; Kharagpur West Bengal India
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- Department of Biotechnology; Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; Kharagpur West Bengal India
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- Department of Biotechnology; Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; Kharagpur West Bengal India
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- Department of Biotechnology; Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur; Kharagpur West Bengal India
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Faisal Tarique K, Arif Abdul Rehman S, Gourinath S. Structural elucidation of a dual-activity PAP phosphatase-1 from Entamoeba histolytica capable of hydrolysing both 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate and inositol 1,4-bisphosphate. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 70:2019-31. [PMID: 25004978 DOI: 10.1107/s1399004714010268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2014] [Accepted: 05/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The enzyme 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphatase-1 (PAP phosphatase-1) is a member of the Li(+)-sensitive Mg(2+)-dependent phosphatase superfamily, or inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) superfamily, and is an important regulator of the sulfate-activation pathway in all living organisms. Inhibition of this enzyme leads to accumulation of the toxic byproduct 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate (PAP), which could be lethal to the organism. Genomic analysis of Entamoeba histolytica suggests the presence of two isoforms of PAP phosphatase. The PAP phosphatase-1 isoform of this organism is shown to be active over wide ranges of pH and temperature. Interestingly, this enzyme is inhibited by submillimolar concentrations of Li(+), while being insensitive to Na(+). Interestingly, the enzyme showed activity towards both PAP and inositol 1,4-bisphosphate and behaved as an inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase. Crystal structures of this enzyme in its native form and in complex with adenosine 5'-monophosphate have been determined to 2.1 and 2.6 Å resolution, respectively. The PAP phosphatase-1 structure is divided into two domains, namely α+β and α/β, and the substrate and metal ions bind between them. This is a first structure of any PAP phosphatase to be determined from a human parasitic protozoan. This enzyme appears to function using a mechanism involving three-metal-ion assisted catalysis. Comparison with other structures indicates that the sensitivity to alkali-metal ions may depend on the orientation of a specific catalytic loop.
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- School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, India
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Hwang HJ, Park SY, Kim JS. Crystal structure of cbbF from Zymomonas mobilis and its functional implication. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2014; 445:78-83. [PMID: 24491569 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.01.152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2014] [Accepted: 01/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A phosphate group at the C1-atom of inositol-monophosphate (IMP) and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate (FBP) is hydrolyzed by a phosphatase IMPase and FBPase in a metal-dependent way, respectively. The two enzymes are almost indiscernible from each other because of their highly similar sequences and structures. Metal ions are bound to residues on the β1- and β2-strands and one mobile loop. However, FBP has another phosphate and FBPases exist as a higher oligomeric state, which may discriminate FBPases from IMPases. There are three genes annotated as FBPases in Zymomonas mobilis, termed also cbbF (ZmcbbF). The revealed crystal structure of one ZmcbbF shows a globular structure formed by five stacked layers. Twenty-five residues in the middle of the sequence form an α-helix and a β-strand, which occupy one side of the catalytic site. A non-polar Leu residue among them is protruded to the active site, pointing out unfavorable access of a bulky charged group to this side. In vitro assays have shown its dimeric form in solution. Interestingly, two β-strands of β1 and β2 are disordered in the ZmcbbF structure. These data indicate that ZmcbbF might structurally belong to IMPase, and imply that its active site would be reorganized in a yet unreported way.
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- Hyo-Jeong Hwang
- Department of Chemistry, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500-757, Republic of Korea.
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Characterization of fructose 1,6-bisphosphatase and sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase from the facultative ribulose monophosphate cycle methylotroph Bacillus methanolicus. J Bacteriol 2013; 195:5112-22. [PMID: 24013630 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00672-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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The genome of the facultative ribulose monophosphate (RuMP) cycle methylotroph Bacillus methanolicus encodes two bisphosphatases (GlpX), one on the chromosome (GlpX(C)) and one on plasmid pBM19 (GlpX(P)), which is required for methylotrophy. Both enzymes were purified from recombinant Escherichia coli and were shown to be active as fructose 1,6-bisphosphatases (FBPases). The FBPase-negative Corynebacterium glutamicum Δfbp mutant could be phenotypically complemented with glpX(C) and glpX(P) from B. methanolicus. GlpX(P) and GlpX(C) share similar functional properties, as they were found here to be active as homotetramers in vitro, activated by Mn(2+) ions and inhibited by Li(+), but differed in terms of the kinetic parameters. GlpX(C) showed a much higher catalytic efficiency and a lower Km for fructose 1,6-bisphosphate (86.3 s(-1) mM(-1) and 14 ± 0.5 μM, respectively) than GlpX(P) (8.8 s(-1) mM(-1) and 440 ± 7.6 μM, respectively), indicating that GlpX(C) is the major FBPase of B. methanolicus. Both enzymes were tested for activity as sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase (SBPase), since a SBPase variant of the ribulose monophosphate cycle has been proposed for B. methanolicus. The substrate for the SBPase reaction, sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphate, could be synthesized in vitro by using both fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase proteins from B. methanolicus. Evidence for activity as an SBPase could be obtained for GlpX(P) but not for GlpX(C). Based on these in vitro data, GlpX(P) is a promiscuous SBPase/FBPase and might function in the RuMP cycle of B. methanolicus.
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Jia B, Cheong GW, Zhang S. Multifunctional enzymes in archaea: promiscuity and moonlight. Extremophiles 2013; 17:193-203. [PMID: 23283522 DOI: 10.1007/s00792-012-0509-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2012] [Accepted: 12/17/2012] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Enzymes from many archaea colonizing extreme environments are of great interest because of their potential for various biotechnological processes and scientific value of evolution. Many enzymes from archaea have been reported to catalyze promiscuous reactions or moonlight in different functions. Here, we summarize known archaeal enzymes of both groups that include different kinds of proteins. Knowledge of their biochemical properties and three-dimensional structures has proved invaluable in understanding mechanism, application, and evolutionary implications of this manifestation. In addition, the review also summarizes the methods to unravel the extra function which almost was discovered serendipitously. The study of these amazing enzymes will provide clues to optimize protein engineering applications and how enzymes might have evolved on Earth.
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- Baolei Jia
- College of Plant Sciences, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
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Wang FK, Latifi A, Chen WL, Zhang CC. The inositol monophosphatase All2917 (IMPA1) is involved in osmotic adaptation in Anabaena sp. PCC7120. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2012; 4:622-632. [PMID: 23760933 DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00388.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2011] [Revised: 04/07/2012] [Accepted: 04/10/2012] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Inositol monophosphatase (IMPase; EC 3.1.3.25) acts at the last step in the inositol biosynthesis pathway by hydrolysing inositol-1-phosphate into inositol. In this study, an IMPase encoding gene, all2917 from Anabaena sp. PCC7120, was characterized. We found that All2917 exhibits a specific activity on inositol-1-phosphate, in a typical Mg(2+) -dependent, Li(+) -sensitive manner. The deletion of all2917 in Anabaena made the cells more sensitive to osmotic stress caused by sucrose or sorbitol, while its overexpression led to an increased resistance to such stress. Consistent with these phenotypes, the transcription of all2917 was significantly upregulated upon the sucrose-mediated osmotic stress. Phylogenic analysis using 134 IMPase homologues from 36 cyanobacterial strains shows that members of IMPase family form three major distinct clades, suggesting that multiple copies of IMPase family proteins have been maintained in Cyanobacteria during a long history of evolution, and they may play important roles in cyanobacterial physiology.
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- Fang-Kui Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, 430070, Wuhan, China
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Haimovich A, Eliav U, Goldbourt A. Determination of the Lithium Binding Site in Inositol Monophosphatase, the Putative Target for Lithium Therapy, by Magic-Angle-Spinning Solid-State NMR. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:5647-51. [DOI: 10.1021/ja211794x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Anat Haimovich
- Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences,
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences,
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences,
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Bhattacharyya S, Dutta D, Saha B, Ghosh AK, Das AK. Crystal structure of Staphylococcal dual specific inositol monophosphatase/NADP(H) phosphatase (SAS2203) delineates the molecular basis of substrate specificity. Biochimie 2012; 94:879-90. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2011.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2011] [Accepted: 12/07/2011] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Bhattacharyya S, Dutta D, Ghosh AK, Das AK. Cloning, overexpression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of an inositol monophosphatase family protein (SAS2203) from Staphylococcus aureus MSSA476. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2011; 67:471-4. [PMID: 21505244 PMCID: PMC3080153 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309111003496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2010] [Accepted: 01/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The gene product of the sas2203 ORF of Staphylococcus aureus MSSA476 encodes a 30 kDa molecular-weight protein with a high sequence resemblance (29% identity) to tetrameric inositol monophosphatase from Thermotoga maritima. The protein was cloned, expressed, purified to homogeneity and crystallized. Crystals appeared in several conditions and good diffraction-quality crystals were obtained from 0.2 M Li(2)SO(4), 20% PEG 3350, 0.1 M HEPES pH 7.0 using the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. A complete diffraction data set was collected to 2.6 Å resolution using a Rigaku MicroMax-007 HF Cu Kα X-ray generator and a Rigaku R-AXIS IV(++) detector. The diffraction data were consistent with the orthorhombic space group P2(1)2(1)2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 49.98, b = 68.35, c = 143.79 Å, α = β = γ = 90°, and the crystal contained two molecules in the asymmetric unit.
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- Sudipta Bhattacharyya
- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721 302, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721 302, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721 302, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721 302, India
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Li Z, Stieglitz KA, Shrout AL, Wei Y, Weis RM, Stec B, Roberts MF. Mobile loop mutations in an archaeal inositol monophosphatase: modulating three-metal ion assisted catalysis and lithium inhibition. Protein Sci 2010; 19:309-18. [PMID: 20027624 PMCID: PMC2865715 DOI: 10.1002/pro.315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2009] [Revised: 11/20/2009] [Accepted: 12/10/2009] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) enzyme from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii requires Mg(2+) for activity and binds three to four ions tightly in the absence of ligands: K(D) = 0.8 muM for one ion with a K(D) of 38 muM for the other Mg(2+) ions. However, the enzyme requires 5-10 mM Mg(2+) for optimum catalysis, suggesting substrate alters the metal ion affinity. In crystal structures of this archaeal IMPase with products, one of the three metal ions is coordinated by only one protein contact, Asp38. The importance of this and three other acidic residues in a mobile loop that approaches the active site was probed with mutational studies. Only D38A exhibited an increased kinetic K(D) for Mg(2+); D26A, E39A, and E41A showed no significant change in the Mg(2+) requirement for optimal activity. D38A also showed an increased K(m), but little effect on k(cat). This behavior is consistent with this side chain coordinating the third metal ion in the substrate complex, but with sufficient flexibility in the loop such that other acidic residues could position the Mg(2+) in the active site in the absence of Asp38. While lithium ion inhibition of the archaeal IMPase is very poor (IC(50) approximately 250 mM), the D38A enzyme has a dramatically enhanced sensitivity to Li(+) with an IC(50) of 12 mM. These results constitute additional evidence for three metal ion assisted catalysis with substrate and product binding reducing affinity of the third necessary metal ion. They also suggest a specific mode of action for lithium inhibition in the IMPase superfamily.
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- Zheng Li
- Department of Chemistry, Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
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- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Roxbury Community CollegeBoston, Massachusetts 02120
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- Department of Chemistry, University of MassachusettsAmherst, Massachusetts 01003
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
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- Department of Chemistry, University of MassachusettsAmherst, Massachusetts 01003
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- The Burnham Institute for Medical ResearchLa Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Chemistry, Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
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Longo CM, Wei Y, Roberts MF, Miller SJ. Asymmetric Syntheses of L,L- and L,D-di-myo-inositol-1,1'-phosphate and their behavior as stabilizers of enzyme activity at extreme temperatures. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009; 48:4158-61. [PMID: 19425028 DOI: 10.1002/anie.200900480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The big "DIP"per: The preparation of both l,l-DIP and l,d-DIP (see structures) involves a complex case of double asymmetric induction in the key step of the synthesis. The differential ability of each isomer to contribute to thermoprotection in the context of a key enzyme has been assessed and both isomers of DIP are shown to possess biological activity.
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- Christina M Longo
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520-4900, USA
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Asymmetric Syntheses of l,l-and l,d-Di-myo-inositol-1,1′-phosphate and their Behavior as Stabilizers of Enzyme Activity at Extreme Temperatures. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.200900480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Brown G, Singer A, Lunin VV, Proudfoot M, Skarina T, Flick R, Kochinyan S, Sanishvili R, Joachimiak A, Edwards AM, Savchenko A, Yakunin AF. Structural and biochemical characterization of the type II fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase GlpX from Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 2009; 284:3784-92. [PMID: 19073594 PMCID: PMC2635049 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m808186200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2008] [Revised: 12/08/2008] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Gluconeogenesis is an important metabolic pathway, which produces glucose from noncarbohydrate precursors such as organic acids, fatty acids, amino acids, or glycerol. Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, a key enzyme of gluconeogenesis, is found in all organisms, and five different classes of these enzymes have been identified. Here we demonstrate that Escherichia coli has two class II fructose-1,6-bisphosphatases, GlpX and YggF, which show different catalytic properties. We present the first crystal structure of a class II fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (GlpX) determined in a free state and in the complex with a substrate (fructose 1,6-bisphosphate) or inhibitor (phosphate). The crystal structure of the ligand-free GlpX revealed a compact, globular shape with two alpha/beta-sandwich domains. The core fold of GlpX is structurally similar to that of Li+-sensitive phosphatases implying that they have a common evolutionary origin and catalytic mechanism. The structure of the GlpX complex with fructose 1,6-bisphosphate revealed that the active site is located between two domains and accommodates several conserved residues coordinating two metal ions and the substrate. The third metal ion is bound to phosphate 6 of the substrate. Inorganic phosphate strongly inhibited activity of both GlpX and YggF, and the crystal structure of the GlpX complex with phosphate demonstrated that the inhibitor molecule binds to the active site. Alanine replacement mutagenesis of GlpX identified 12 conserved residues important for activity and suggested that Thr(90) is the primary catalytic residue. Our data provide insight into the molecular mechanisms of the substrate specificity and catalysis of GlpX and other class II fructose-1,6-bisphosphatases.
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- Greg Brown
- Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L6, Canada
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Structure and function of NAD kinase and NADP phosphatase: key enzymes that regulate the intracellular balance of NAD(H) and NADP(H). Biosci Biotechnol Biochem 2008; 72:919-30. [PMID: 18391451 DOI: 10.1271/bbb.70738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The functions of NAD(H) (NAD(+) and NADH) and NADP(H) (NADP(+) and NADPH) are undoubtedly significant and distinct. Hence, regulation of the intracellular balance of NAD(H) and NADP(H) is important. The key enzymes involved in the regulation are NAD kinase and NADP phosphatase. In 2000, we first succeeded in identifying the gene for NAD kinase, thereby facilitating worldwide studies of this enzyme from various organisms, including eubacteria, archaea, yeast, plants, and humans. Molecular biological study has revealed the physiological function of this enzyme, that is to say, the significance of NADP(H), in some model organisms. Structural research has elucidated the tertiary structure of the enzyme, the details of substrate-binding sites, and the catalytic mechanism. Research on NAD kinase also led to the discovery of archaeal NADP phosphatase. In this review, we summarize the physiological functions, applications, and structure of NAD kinase, and the way we discovered archaeal NADP phosphatase.
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Brown AK, Meng G, Ghadbane H, Scott DJ, Dover LG, Nigou J, Besra GS, Fütterer K. Dimerization of inositol monophosphatase Mycobacterium tuberculosis SuhB is not constitutive, but induced by binding of the activator Mg2+. BMC STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2007; 7:55. [PMID: 17725819 PMCID: PMC2080633 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-7-55] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2007] [Accepted: 08/28/2007] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND The cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis contains a wide range of phosphatidyl inositol-based glycolipids that play critical structural roles and, in part, govern pathogen-host interactions. Synthesis of phosphatidyl inositol is dependent on free myo-inositol, generated through dephosphorylation of myo-inositol-1-phosphate by inositol monophosphatase (IMPase). Human IMPase, the putative target of lithium therapy, has been studied extensively, but the function of four IMPase-like genes in M. tuberculosis is unclear. RESULTS We determined the crystal structure, to 2.6 A resolution, of the IMPase M. tuberculosis SuhB in the apo form, and analysed self-assembly by analytical ultracentrifugation. Contrary to the paradigm of constitutive dimerization of IMPases, SuhB is predominantly monomeric in the absence of the physiological activator Mg2+, in spite of a conserved fold and apparent dimerization in the crystal. However, Mg2+ concentrations that result in enzymatic activation of SuhB decisively promote dimerization, with the inhibitor Li+ amplifying the effect of Mg2+, but failing to induce dimerization on its own. CONCLUSION The correlation of Mg2+-driven enzymatic activity with dimerization suggests that catalytic activity is linked to the dimer form. Current models of lithium inhibition of IMPases posit that Li+ competes for one of three catalytic Mg2+ sites in the active site, stabilized by a mobile loop at the dimer interface. Our data suggest that Mg2+/Li+-induced ordering of this loop may promote dimerization by expanding the dimer interface of SuhB. The dynamic nature of the monomer-dimer equilibrium may also explain the extended concentration range over which Mg2+ maintains SuhB activity.
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- Alistair K Brown
- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
- Present address : School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- National Centre for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington, LE12 5RD, UK
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Department of Molecular Mechanisms of Mycobacterial Infections, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 5089, Toulouse, France
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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Wang Y, Stieglitz KA, Bubunenko M, Court DL, Stec B, Roberts MF. The structure of the R184A mutant of the inositol monophosphatase encoded by suhB and implications for its functional interactions in Escherichia coli. J Biol Chem 2007; 282:26989-26996. [PMID: 17652087 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m701210200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The Escherichia coli product of the suhB gene, SuhB, is an inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) that is best known as a suppressor of temperature-sensitive growth phenotypes in E. coli. To gain insights into these biological diverse effects, we determined the structure of the SuhB R184A mutant protein. The structure showed a dimer organization similar to other IMPases, but with an altered interface suggesting that the presence of Arg-184 in the wild-type protein could shift the monomer-dimer equilibrium toward monomer. In parallel, a gel shift assay showed that SuhB forms a tight complex with RNA polymerase (RNA pol) that inhibits the IMPase catalytic activity of SuhB. A variety of SuhB mutant proteins designed to stabilize the dimer interface did not show a clear correlation with the ability of a specific mutant protein to complement the DeltasuhB mutation when introduced extragenically despite being active IMPases. However, the loss of sensitivity to RNA pol binding, i.e. in G173V, R184I, and L96F/R184I, did correlate strongly with loss of complementation of DeltasuhB. Because residue 184 forms the core of the SuhB dimer, it is likely that the interaction with RNA polymerase requires monomeric SuhB. The exposure of specific residues facilitates the interaction of SuhB with RNA pol (or another target with a similar binding surface) and it is this heterodimer formation that is critical to the ability of SuhB to rescue temperature-sensitive phenotypes in E. coli.
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- Yanling Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
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- Department of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
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- Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc; Molecular Control and Genetics Section, Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, NCI-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702
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- Molecular Control and Genetics Section, Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, NCI-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702
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- The Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California 92037
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- Department of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467.
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Fukuda C, Kawai S, Murata K. NADP(H) phosphatase activities of archaeal inositol monophosphatase and eubacterial 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate phosphatase. Appl Environ Microbiol 2007; 73:5447-52. [PMID: 17616624 PMCID: PMC2042097 DOI: 10.1128/aem.02703-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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NADP(H) phosphatase has not been identified in eubacteria and eukaryotes. In archaea, MJ0917 of hyperthermophilic Methanococcus jannaschii is a fusion protein comprising NAD kinase and an inositol monophosphatase homologue that exhibits high NADP(H) phosphatase activity (S. Kawai, C. Fukuda, T. Mukai, and K. Murata, J. Biol. Chem. 280:39200-39207, 2005). In this study, we showed that the other archaeal inositol monophosphatases, MJ0109 of M. jannaschii and AF2372 of hyperthermophilic Archaeoglobus fulgidus, exhibit NADP(H) phosphatase activity in addition to the already-known inositol monophosphatase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase activities. Kinetic values for NADP+ and NADPH of MJ0109 and AF2372 were comparable to those for inositol monophosphate and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate. This implies that the physiological role of the two enzymes is that of an NADP(H) phosphatase. Further, the two enzymes showed inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase activity but not 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate phosphatase activity. The inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase activity of archaeal inositol monophosphatase was considered to be compatible with the similar tertiary structures of inositol monophosphatase, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase, and 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate phosphatase. Based on this fact, we found that 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate phosphatase (CysQ) of Escherichia coli exhibited NADP(H) phosphatase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase activities, although inositol monophosphatase (SuhB) and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (Fbp) of E. coli did not exhibit any NADP(H) phosphatase activity. However, the kinetic values of CysQ and the known phenotype of the cysQ mutant indicated that CysQ functions physiologically as 3'-phosphoadenosine 5'-phosphate phosphatase rather than as NADP(H) phosphatase.
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- Chikako Fukuda
- Department of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Division of Food and Biological Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Patra B, Ghosh Dastidar K, Maitra S, Bhattacharyya J, Majumder AL. Functional identification of sll1383 from Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 as L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.25): molecular cloning, expression and characterization. PLANTA 2007; 225:1547-58. [PMID: 17123102 DOI: 10.1007/s00425-006-0441-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2006] [Accepted: 10/26/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 revealed four Open reading frame (ORF) encoding putative inositol monophosphatase or inositol monophosphatase-like proteins. One of the ORFs, sll1383, is approximately 870 base pair long and has been assigned as a probable myo-inositol 1 (or 4) monophosphatase (IMPase; EC 3.1.3.25). IMPase is the second enzyme in the inositol biosynthesis pathway and catalyses the conversion of L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate to free myo-inositol. The present work describes the functional assignment of ORF sll1383 as myo-inositol 1-phosphate phosphatase (IMPase) through molecular cloning, bacterial overexpression, purification and biochemical characterization of the gene product. Affinity (K (m)) of the recombinant protein for the substrate DL-myo-inositol 1-phosphate was found to be much higher (0.0034 +/- 0.0003 mM) compared to IMPase(s) from other sources but in comparison V (max) ( approximately 0.033 mumol Pi/min/mg protein) was low. Li(+) was found to be an inhibitor (IC(50) 6.0 mM) of this enzyme, other monovalent metal ions (e.g. Na(+), K(+) NH (4) (+) ) having no significant effect on the enzyme activity. Like other IMPase(s), the activity of this enzyme was found to be totally Mg(2+) dependent, which can be substituted partially by Mn(2+). However, unlike other IMPase(s), the enzyme is optimally active at approximately 42 degrees C. To the best of our knowledge, sll1383 encoded IMPase has the highest substrate affinity and specificity amongst the known examples from other prokaryotic sources. A possible application of this recombinant protein in the enzymatic coupled assay of L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase (MIPS) is discussed.
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- Barunava Patra
- Plant Molecular and Cellular Genetics, Bose Institute, P-1/12. CIT Scheme VII M, Kolkata, 700054, India
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Stieglitz KA, Roberts MF, Li W, Stec B. Crystal structure of the tetrameric inositol 1-phosphate phosphatase (TM1415) from the hyperthermophile, Thermotoga maritima. FEBS J 2007; 274:2461-9. [PMID: 17419729 DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-2956.2007.05779.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The structure of the first tetrameric inositol monophosphatase (IMPase) has been solved. This enzyme, from the eubacterium Thermotoga maritima, similarly to its archaeal homologs exhibits dual specificity with both IMPase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase activities. The tetrameric structure of this unregulated enzyme is similar, in its quaternary assembly, to the allosterically regulated tetramer of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. The individual dimers are similar to the human IMPase. Additionally, the structures of two crystal forms of IMPase show significant differences. In the first crystal form, the tetrameric structure is symmetrical, with the active site loop in each subunit folded into a beta-hairpin conformation. The second form is asymmetrical and shows an unusual structural change. Two of the subunits have the active site loop folded into a beta-hairpin structure, whereas in the remaining two subunits the same loop adopts an alpha-helical conformation.
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Rodionov DA, Kurnasov OV, Stec B, Wang Y, Roberts MF, Osterman AL. Genomic identification and in vitro reconstitution of a complete biosynthetic pathway for the osmolyte di-myo-inositol-phosphate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:4279-84. [PMID: 17360515 PMCID: PMC1838593 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0609279104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Di-myo-inositol 1,1'-phosphate (DIP) is a major osmoprotecting metabolite in a number of hyperthermophilic species of archaea and bacteria. Although the DIP biosynthesis pathway was previously proposed, genes encoding only two of the four required enzymes, inositol-1-phosphate synthase and inositol monophosphatase, were identified. In this study we used a comparative genomic analysis to predict two additional genes of this pathway (termed dipA and dipB) that remained missing. In Thermotoga maritima both candidate genes (in an originally misannotated locus TM1418) form an operon with the inositol-1-phosphate synthase encoding gene (TM1419). A predicted inositol-mono-phosphate cytidylyltransferase activity was directly confirmed for the purified product of T. maritima gene dipA cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The entire DIP pathway was reconstituted in E. coli by cloning of the TM1418-TM1419 operon in pBAD expression vector and confirmed to function in the crude lysate. (31)P NMR and MS analysis revealed that DIP synthesis proceeds via a phosphorylated DIP intermediate, P-DIP, which is generated by the dipB-encoded enzyme, now termed P-DIP synthase. This previously unknown intermediate is apparently converted to the final product, DIP, by an inositol monophosphatase-like phosphatase. These findings allowed us to revise the previously proposed DIP pathway. The genomic survey confirmed its presence in the species known to use DIP for osmoprotection. Among several newly identified species with a postulated DIP pathway, Aeropyrum pernix was directly proven to produce this osmolyte.
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- Dmitry A. Rodionov
- *Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA 92037
- Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 127994, Russia; and
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- *Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA 92037
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- Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; and
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- Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; and
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- *Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA 92037
- Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes, Burr Ridge, IL 60527
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- Mary F Roberts
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA
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Sánchez MB, Barrado P, Jiménez A, Fernández Lobato M. The pur3 gene from the pur cluster encodes a monophosphatase essential for puromycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces. FEBS Lett 2006; 580:1807-11. [PMID: 16513119 DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.02.037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2005] [Revised: 02/10/2006] [Accepted: 02/11/2006] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The pur3 gene of the puromycin (pur) cluster from Streptomyces alboniger is essential for the biosynthesis of this antibiotic. Cell extracts from Streptomyces lividans containing pur3 had monophosphatase activity versus a variety of mononucleotides including 3'-amino-3'-dAMP (3'-N-3'-dAMP), (N6,N6)-dimethyl-3'-amino-3'-dAMP (PAN-5'-P) and AMP. This is in accordance with the high similarity of this protein to inositol monophosphatases from different sources. Pur3 was expressed in Escherichia coli as a recombinant protein and purified to apparent homogeneity. Similar to the intact protein in S. lividans, this recombinant enzyme dephosphorylated a wide variety of substrates for which the lowest Km values were obtained for the putative intermediates of the puromycin biosynthetic pathway 3'-N-3'-dAMP (Km = 1.37 mM) and PAN-5'-P (Km = 1.40 mM). The identification of this activity has allowed the revision of a previous proposal for the puromycin biosynthetic pathway.
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- María Blanca Sánchez
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Departamento de Biología Molecular (CSIC-UAM), Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Gu X, Chen M, Shen H, Jiang X, Huang Y, Wang H. Rv2131c gene product: An unconventional enzyme that is both inositol monophosphatase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 339:897-904. [PMID: 16325768 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.11.088] [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] [Received: 11/15/2005] [Accepted: 11/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Inositol monophosphatase is an enzyme in the biosynthesis of myo-inostiol, a crucial substrate for the synthesis of phosphatidylinositol, which has been demonstrated to be an essential component of mycobacteria. In this study, the Rv2131c gene from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv was cloned into the pET28a vector and the recombinant plasmid was transformed into Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) strain, allowing the expression of the enzyme in fusion with a histidine-rich peptide on the N-terminal. The fusion protein was purified from the soluble fraction of the lysed cells under native conditions by immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC). The purified Rv2131c gene product showed inositol monophosphatase activity but with substrate specificity that was broader than those of several bacterial and eukaryotic inositol monophosphatases, and it also acted as fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. The dimeric enzyme exhibited dual activities of IMPase and FBPase, with K(m) of 0.22+/-0.03mM for inositol-1-phosphate and K(m) of 0.45+/-0.05mM for fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase. To better understand the relationship between the function and structure of the Rv2131c enzyme, we constructed D40N, L71A, and D94N mutants and purified these corresponding proteins. Mutations of D40N and D94N caused the proteins to almost completely lose both the inositol monophosphatase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase activities. However, L71A mutant did not cause loss either of the activities, but the activity toward the inositol was 12-fold more resistant to inhibition by lithium (IC(50) approximately 60mM). Based on the substrate specificity and presence of conserved sequence motifs of the M. tuberculosis Rv2131c, we proposed that the enzyme belonged to class IV fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase IV).
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- Xiaoling Gu
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China
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Kawai S, Fukuda C, Mukai T, Murata K. MJ0917 in archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii is a novel NADP phosphatase/NAD kinase. J Biol Chem 2005; 280:39200-7. [PMID: 16192277 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m506426200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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NAD kinase phosphorylates NAD(+) to form NADP(+). Conversely, NADP phosphatase, which has not yet been identified, dephosphorylates NADP(+) to produce NAD(+). Among the NAD kinase homologs, the primary structure of MJ0917 of hyperthermophilic archaeal Methanococcus jannaschii is unique. MJ0917 possesses an NAD kinase homologous region in its C-terminal half and an inositol-1-phosphatase homologous region in its N-terminal half. In this study, MJ0917 was biochemically shown to possess both NAD kinase and phosphatase activities toward NADP(+), NADPH, and fructose 1,6-bisphosphate, but not toward inositol 1-phosphate. With regard to the phosphatase activity, kinetic values indicated that NADP(+) is the preferred substrate and that MJ0917 would function as a novel NADP phosphatase/NAD kinase showing conflicting dual activities, viz. synthesis and degradation of an essential NADP(+). Furthermore, in vitro analysis of MJ0917 showed that, although MJ0917 could supply NADP(+), it prevented excess accumulation of NADP(+); thus, it has the ability to maintain a high NAD(+)/NADP(+) ratio, whereas 5'-AMP would decrease this ratio. The evolutionary process during which MJ0917 arose is also discussed.
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- Shigeyuki Kawai
- Department of Basic and Applied Molecular Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
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Ronimus RS, Morgan HW. Distribution and phylogenies of enzymes of the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway from archaea and hyperthermophilic bacteria support a gluconeogenic origin of metabolism. ARCHAEA-AN INTERNATIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL JOURNAL 2005; 1:199-221. [PMID: 15803666 PMCID: PMC2685568 DOI: 10.1155/2003/162593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Enzymes of the gluconeogenic/glycolytic pathway (the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) pathway), the reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle, the reductive pentose phosphate cycle and the Entner-Doudoroff pathway are widely distributed and are often considered to be central to the origins of metabolism. In particular, several enzymes of the lower portion of the EMP pathway (the so-called trunk pathway), including triosephosphate isomerase (TPI; EC 5.3.1.1), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH; EC 1.2.1.12/13), phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK; EC 2.7.2.3) and enolase (EC 4.2.1.11), are extremely well conserved and universally distributed among the three domains of life. In this paper, the distribution of enzymes of gluconeogenesis/glycolysis in hyperthermophiles--microorganisms that many believe represent the least evolved organisms on the planet--is reviewed. In addition, the phylogenies of the trunk pathway enzymes (TPIs, GAPDHs, PGKs and enolases) are examined. The enzymes catalyzing each of the six-carbon transformations in the upper portion of the EMP pathway, with the possible exception of aldolase, are all derived from multiple gene sequence families. In contrast, single sequence families can account for the archaeal and hyperthermophilic bacterial enzyme activities of the lower portion of the EMP pathway. The universal distribution of the trunk pathway enzymes, in combination with their phylogenies, supports the notion that the EMP pathway evolved in the direction of gluconeogenesis, i.e., from the bottom up.
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- Ron S Ronimus
- Thermophile Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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Morgan AJ, Wang YK, Roberts MF, Miller SJ. Chemistry and biology of deoxy-myo-inositol phosphates: stereospecificity of substrate interactions within an archaeal and a bacterial IMPase. J Am Chem Soc 2005; 126:15370-1. [PMID: 15563150 DOI: 10.1021/ja047360x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Six enantiomerically pure myo-inositol-monophosphates, including four deoxygenated analogues, have been synthesized by employing catalytic asymmetric phosphorylation methodology. These compounds were then evaluated as substrates for the direct interrogation of the stereospecificity of enzyme-substrate interactions with two inositol-monophosphatases (IMPases), one of which (from Archaeoglobus fulgidus) is characterized by an X-ray crystal structure with its substrate (d-I-1P) bound. The kinetic results lead to the finding that certain hydroxyl group contacts are actually destabilizing, while others have little effect. These new probes also allow a prediction of the active site binding mode of the substrate for the Escherichia coli IMPase for which no crystal structure exists.
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- Adam J Morgan
- Department of Chemistry, Merkert Chemistry Center, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3860, USA
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Nishimasu H, Fushinobu S, Shoun H, Wakagi T. The first crystal structure of the novel class of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase present in thermophilic archaea. Structure 2004; 12:949-59. [PMID: 15274916 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2004.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2003] [Revised: 11/23/2003] [Accepted: 03/10/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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As the first structure of the novel class of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase (FBPase) present in thermophilic archaea, we solved the crystal structure of the ST0318 gene product (St-Fbp) of Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7. The St-Fbp structure comprises a homooctamer of the 422 point-group. The protein folds as a four-layer alpha-beta-beta-alpha sandwich with a novel topology, which is completely different from the sugar phosphatase fold. The structure contains an unhydrolyzed FBP molecule in the open-keto form, as well as four hexacoordinated magnesium ions around the 1-phosphoryl group of FBP. The arrangement of the catalytic side chains and metal ligands is consistent with the three-metal ion assisted catalysis proposed for conventional FBPases. The structure provides an insight into the structural basis of the strict substrate specificity of St-Fbp.
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- Hiroshi Nishimasu
- Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
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Stieglitz KA, Seaton BA, Head JF, Stec B, Roberts MF. Unexpected similarity in regulation between an archaeal inositol monophosphatase/fructose bisphosphatase and chloroplast fructose bisphosphatase. Protein Sci 2003; 12:760-7. [PMID: 12649434 PMCID: PMC2323843 DOI: 10.1110/ps.0236003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hyperthermophilic archaea have an unusual phosphatase that exhibits activity toward both inositol-1-phosphate and fructose-1,6-bisphosphate, activities carried out by separate gene products in eukaryotes and bacteria. The structures of phosphatases from Archaeoglobus fulgidus (AF2372) and Methanococcus jannaschii (MJ0109), both anaerobic organisms, resemble the dimeric unit of the tetrameric pig kidney fructose bisphosphatase (FBPase). A striking feature of AF2372, but not of MJ0109, is that the sulfhydryl groups of two cysteines, Cys150 and Cys186, are in close proximity (4 A). A similar arrangement of cysteines has been observed in chloroplast FBPases that are regulated by disulfide formation controlled by redox signaling pathways (ferredoxin/thioredoxin). This mode of regulation has not been detected in any other FBPase enzymes. Biochemical assays show that the AF2372 phosphatase activity can be abolished by incubation with O(2). Full activity is restored by incubation with thiol-containing compounds. Neither the C150S variant of AF2372 nor the equivalent phosphatase from M. jannaschii loses activity with oxidation. Oxidation experiments using Escherichia coli thioredoxin, in analogy with the chloroplast FBPase system, indicate an unexpected mode of regulation for AF2372, a key phosphatase in this anaerobic sulfate reducer.
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- Kimberly A Stieglitz
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
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