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Burgener S, Dačević B, Zhang X, Ward TR. Binding Interactions and Inhibition Mechanisms of Gold Complexes in Thiamine Diphosphate-Dependent Enzymes. Biochemistry 2023; 62:3303-3311. [PMID: 37931174 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.3c00376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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Thiamine diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzymes possess the unique ability to generate a carbene within their active site. In this study, we sought to harness this carbene to produce a Au(I) N-heterocyclic complex directly in the active site of ThDP enzymes, thereby establishing a novel platform for artificial metalloenzymes. Because direct metalation of ThDP proved challenging, we synthesized a ThDP mimic that acts as a competitive inhibitor with a high affinity (Ki = 1.5 μM). Upon metalation with Au(I), we observed that the complex became a more potent inhibitor (Ki = 0.7 μM). However, detailed analysis of the inhibition mode, native mass spectrometry, and size exclusion experiments revealed that the complex does not bind specifically to the active site of ThDP enzymes. Instead, it exhibits unspecific binding and exceeds the 1:1 stoichiometry. Similar binding patterns were observed for other Au(I) species. These findings prompt an important question regarding the inherent propensity of ThDP enzymes to bind strongly to Au. If this phenomenon holds true, it could pave the way for the development of Au-based drugs targeting these enzymes.
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- Simon Burgener
- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096 4058, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096 4058, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096 4058, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Mattenstrasse 24a, BPR 1096 4058, Basel, Switzerland
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Romero AH, Fuentes G, Suescun L, Piro O, Echeverría G, Gotopo L, Pezaroglo H, Álvarez G, Cabrera G, Cerecetto H, Couto M. Tautomerism and Rotamerism of Favipiravir and Halogenated Analogues in Solution and in the Solid State. J Org Chem 2023; 88:10735-10752. [PMID: 37452781 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c00777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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Favipiravir is an important selective antiviral against RNA-based viruses, and currently, it is being repurposed as a potential drug for the treatment of COVID-19. This type of chemical system presents different carboxamide-rotameric and hydroxyl-tautomeric states, which could be essential for interpreting its selective antiviral activity. Herein, the tautomeric 3-hydroxypyrazine/3-pyrazinone pair of favipiravir and its 6-substituted analogues, 6-Cl, 6-Br, 6-I, and 6-H, were fully investigated in solution and in the solid state through ultraviolet-visible, 1H nuclear magnetic resonance, infrared spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction techniques. Also, a study of the gas phase was performed using density functional theory calculations. In general, the keto-enol balance in these 3-hydroxy-2-pyrazinecarboxamides is finely modulated by external and internal electrical variations via changes in solvent polarity or by replacement of substituents at position 6. The enol tautomer was prevalent in an apolar environment, whereas an increase in the level of the keto tautomer was favored by an increase in solvent polarity and, even moreso, with a strong hydrogen-donor solvent. Keto tautomerization was favored either in solution or in the solid state with a decrease in 6-substituent electronegativity as follows: H ≫ I ≈ Br > Cl ≥ F. Specific rotameric states based on carboxamide, "cisoide" and "transoide", were identified for the enol and keto tautomer, respectively; their rotamerism is dependent on the tautomerism and not the aggregation state.
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- Angel H Romero
- Grupo de Química Orgánica Medicinal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Grupo de Química Orgánica Medicinal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Cryssmat-Lab/DETEMA, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, La Plata 1900, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, La Plata 1900, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Síntesis Orgánica, Escuela de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Los Chaguaramos, 1040 Caracas, Venezuela
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- Laboratorio de Resonancia Magnética Nuclear, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, 11800 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Laboratorio de Moléculas Bioactivas, CENUR Litoral Norte, Universidad de la República, 60000 Paysandú, Uruguay
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- Laboratorio de Síntesis Orgánica, Escuela de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Los Chaguaramos, 1040 Caracas, Venezuela
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- Grupo de Química Orgánica Medicinal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay
- Area de Radiofarmacia, Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Mataojo 2055, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Grupo de Química Orgánica Medicinal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay
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King B, Winokan M, Stevenson P, Al-Khalili J, Slocombe L, Sacchi M. Tautomerisation Mechanisms in the Adenine-Thymine Nucleobase Pair during DNA Strand Separation. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:4220-4228. [PMID: 36939840 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/21/2023]
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The adenine-thymine tautomer (A*-T*) has previously been discounted as a spontaneous mutagenesis mechanism due to the energetic instability of the tautomeric configuration. We study the stability of A*-T* while the nucleobases undergo DNA strand separation. Our calculations indicate an increase in the stability of A*-T* as the DNA strands unzip and the hydrogen bonds between the bases stretch. Molecular Dynamics simulations reveal the time scales and dynamics of DNA strand separation and the statistical ensemble of opening angles present in a biological environment. Our results demonstrate that the unwinding of DNA, an inherently out-of-equilibrium process facilitated by helicase, will change the energy landscape of the adenine-thymine tautomerization reaction. We propose that DNA strand separation allows the stable tautomerization of adenine-thymine, providing a feasible pathway for genetic point mutations via proton transfer between the A-T bases.
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- Benjamin King
- Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K
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- Leverhulme Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K
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- Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K
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- Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, U.K
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Prajapati S, Rabe von Pappenheim F, Tittmann K. Frontiers in the enzymology of thiamin diphosphate-dependent enzymes. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2022; 76:102441. [PMID: 35988322 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2022.102441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2022] [Revised: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 07/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Enzymes that use thiamin diphosphate (ThDP), the biologically active derivative of vitamin B1, as a cofactor play important roles in cellular metabolism in all domains of life. The analysis of ThDP enzymes in the past decades have provided a general framework for our understanding of enzyme catalysis of this protein family. In this review, we will discuss recent advances in the field that include the observation of "unusual" reactions and reaction intermediates that highlight the chemical versatility of the thiamin cofactor. Further topics cover the structural basis of cooperativity of ThDP enzymes, novel insights into the mechanism and structure of selected enzymes, and the discovery of "superassemblies" as reported, for example, acetohydroxy acid synthase. Finally, we summarize recent findings in the structural organisation and mode of action of 2-keto acid dehydrogenase multienzyme complexes and discuss future directions of this exciting research field.
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- Sabin Prajapati
- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 3, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany; Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 3, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany; Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Göttingen Center of Molecular Biosciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 3, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany; Max-Planck-Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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Zahn M, König G, Cuong Pham HV, Seroka B, Lazny R, Yang G, Ouerfelli O, Lotowski Z, Rohwerder T. Mechanistic details of the actinobacterial lyase-catalyzed degradation reaction of 2-hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA. J Biol Chem 2021; 298:101522. [PMID: 34952003 PMCID: PMC8760513 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Revised: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 12/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Actinobacterial 2-hydroxyacyl-CoA lyase reversibly catalyzes the thiamine diphosphate-dependent cleavage of 2-hydroxyisobutyryl-CoA to formyl-CoA and acetone. This enzyme has great potential for use in synthetic one-carbon assimilation pathways for sustainable production of chemicals, but lacks details of substrate binding and reaction mechanism for biochemical reengineering. We determined crystal structures of the tetrameric enzyme in the closed conformation with bound substrate, covalent postcleavage intermediate, and products, shedding light on active site architecture and substrate interactions. Together with molecular dynamics simulations of the covalent precleavage complex, the complete catalytic cycle is structurally portrayed, revealing a proton transfer from the substrate acyl Cβ hydroxyl to residue E493 that returns it subsequently to the postcleavage Cα-carbanion intermediate. Kinetic parameters obtained for mutants E493A, E493Q, and E493K confirm the catalytic role of E493 in the WT enzyme. However, the 10- and 50-fold reduction in lyase activity in the E493A and E493Q mutants, respectively, compared with WT suggests that water molecules may contribute to proton transfer. The putative catalytic glutamate is located on a short α-helix close to the active site. This structural feature appears to be conserved in related lyases, such as human 2-hydroxyacyl-CoA lyase 2. Interestingly, a unique feature of the actinobacterial 2-hydroxyacyl-CoA lyase is a large C-terminal lid domain that, together with active site residues L127 and I492, restricts substrate size to ≤C5 2-hydroxyacyl residues. These details about the catalytic mechanism and determinants of substrate specificity pave the ground for designing tailored catalysts for acyloin condensations for one-carbon and short-chain substrates in biotechnological applications.
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- Michael Zahn
- Centre for Enzyme Innovation, School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2DT, United Kingdom.
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- Centre for Enzyme Innovation, School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2DT, United Kingdom
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bialystok, K. Ciolkowskiego 1K, 15-245 Bialystok, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bialystok, K. Ciolkowskiego 1K, 15-245 Bialystok, Poland
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- Organic Synthesis Core Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Organic Synthesis Core Facility, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bialystok, K. Ciolkowskiego 1K, 15-245 Bialystok, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
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Planas F, McLeish MJ, Himo F. Enzymatic Stetter Reaction: Computational Study of the Reaction Mechanism of MenD. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.1c02292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Ferran Planas
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, United States
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden
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Medina FE, Prejanò M. Water Molecules Allow the Intramolecular Activation of the Thiamine Di-Phosphate Cofactor in Human Transketolase: Mechanistic Insights into a Famous Proposal. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c05414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Fabiola E. Medina
- Departamento de Ciencias Químicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Andres Bello, Autopista Concepción-Talcahuano, Talcahuano 7100, Chile
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden
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Structural basis for antibiotic action of the B 1 antivitamin 2'-methoxy-thiamine. Nat Chem Biol 2020; 16:1237-1245. [PMID: 32839604 DOI: 10.1038/s41589-020-0628-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/17/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The natural antivitamin 2'-methoxy-thiamine (MTh) is implicated in the suppression of microbial growth. However, its mode of action and enzyme-selective inhibition mechanism have remained elusive. Intriguingly, MTh inhibits some thiamine diphosphate (ThDP) enzymes, while being coenzymatically active in others. Here we report the strong inhibition of Escherichia coli transketolase activity by MTh and unravel its mode of action and the structural basis thereof. The unique 2'-methoxy group of MTh diphosphate (MThDP) clashes with a canonical glutamate required for cofactor activation in ThDP-dependent enzymes. This glutamate is forced into a stable, anticatalytic low-barrier hydrogen bond with a neighboring glutamate, disrupting cofactor activation. Molecular dynamics simulations of transketolases and other ThDP enzymes identify active-site flexibility and the topology of the cofactor-binding locale as key determinants for enzyme-selective inhibition. Human enzymes either retain enzymatic activity with MThDP or preferentially bind authentic ThDP over MThDP, while core bacterial metabolic enzymes are inhibited, demonstrating therapeutic potential.
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Leandro J, Khamrui S, Wang H, Suebsuwong C, Nemeria NS, Huynh K, Moustakim M, Secor C, Wang M, Dodatko T, Stauffer B, Wilson CG, Yu C, Arkin MR, Jordan F, Sanchez R, DeVita RJ, Lazarus MB, Houten SM. Inhibition and Crystal Structure of the Human DHTKD1-Thiamin Diphosphate Complex. ACS Chem Biol 2020; 15:2041-2047. [PMID: 32633484 DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.0c00114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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DHTKD1 is the E1 component of the 2-oxoadipate dehydrogenase complex, which is an enzyme involved in the catabolism of (hydroxy-)lysine and tryptophan. Mutations in DHTKD1 have been associated with 2-aminoadipic and 2-oxoadipic aciduria, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2Q and eosinophilic esophagitis, but the pathophysiology of these clinically distinct disorders remains elusive. Here, we report the identification of adipoylphosphonic acid and tenatoprazole as DHTKD1 inhibitors using targeted and high throughput screening, respectively. We furthermore elucidate the DHTKD1 crystal structure with thiamin diphosphate bound at 2.25 Å. We also report the impact of 10 disease-associated missense mutations on DHTKD1. Whereas the majority of the DHTKD1 variants displayed impaired folding or reduced thermal stability in combination with absent or reduced enzyme activity, three variants showed no abnormalities. Our work provides chemical and structural tools for further understanding of the function of DHTKD1 and its role in several human pathologies.
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- João Leandro
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Drug Discovery Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Drug Discovery Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07102, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Drug Discovery Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Drug Discovery Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Mount Sinai Genomics, Inc, Stamford, Connecticut 06902, United States
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- Small Molecule Discovery Center and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Mount Sinai Genomics, Inc, Stamford, Connecticut 06902, United States
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- Small Molecule Discovery Center and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07102, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Drug Discovery Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Drug Discovery Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
- Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York 10029, United States
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Perli T, Wronska AK, Ortiz‐Merino RA, Pronk JT, Daran J. Vitamin requirements and biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast 2020; 37:283-304. [PMID: 31972058 PMCID: PMC7187267 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2019] [Revised: 12/19/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Chemically defined media for yeast cultivation (CDMY) were developed to support fast growth, experimental reproducibility, and quantitative analysis of growth rates and biomass yields. In addition to mineral salts and a carbon substrate, popular CDMYs contain seven to nine B-group vitamins, which are either enzyme cofactors or precursors for their synthesis. Despite the widespread use of CDMY in fundamental and applied yeast research, the relation of their design and composition to the actual vitamin requirements of yeasts has not been subjected to critical review since their first development in the 1940s. Vitamins are formally defined as essential organic molecules that cannot be synthesized by an organism. In yeast physiology, use of the term "vitamin" is primarily based on essentiality for humans, but the genome of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae reference strain S288C harbours most of the structural genes required for synthesis of the vitamins included in popular CDMY. Here, we review the biochemistry and genetics of the biosynthesis of these compounds by S. cerevisiae and, based on a comparative genomics analysis, assess the diversity within the Saccharomyces genus with respect to vitamin prototrophy.
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- Thomas Perli
- Department of BiotechnologyDelft University of TechnologyDelftThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiotechnologyDelft University of TechnologyDelftThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiotechnologyDelft University of TechnologyDelftThe Netherlands
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- Department of BiotechnologyDelft University of TechnologyDelftThe Netherlands
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Wang Y, Gong Z, Fang H, Zhi D, Tao H. The N-terminal 1-55 residues domain of pyruvate dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli assembles as a dimer in solution. Protein Eng Des Sel 2019; 32:271-276. [PMID: 31828348 DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzz044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2019] [Revised: 09/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) from Escherichia coli is a large protein complex consisting of multiple copies of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1ec), dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (E2ec) and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3ec). The N-terminal domain (NTD, residues 1-55) of E1ec plays a critical role in the interaction between E1ec and E2ec and the whole PDHc activity. Using circular dichroism, size-exclusion chromatography and dynamic light scattering spectroscopy, we show that the NTD of E1ec presents dimeric assembly under physiological condition. Pull-down and isothermal titration calorimetry binding assays revealed that the E2ec peripheral subunit-binding domain (PSBD) forms a very stable complex with the NTD, indicating the isolated NTD functionally interacts with PSBD and the truncated E1ec (E1ec∆NTD) does not interact with PSBD. These findings are important to understand the mechanism of PDHc and other thiamine-based multi-component enzymes.
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- Yuanyuan Wang
- College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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- College of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
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Dai S, Funk LM, von Pappenheim FR, Sautner V, Paulikat M, Schröder B, Uranga J, Mata RA, Tittmann K. Low-barrier hydrogen bonds in enzyme cooperativity. Nature 2019; 573:609-613. [PMID: 31534226 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1581-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Accepted: 08/12/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The underlying molecular mechanisms of cooperativity and allosteric regulation are well understood for many proteins, with haemoglobin and aspartate transcarbamoylase serving as prototypical examples1,2. The binding of effectors typically causes a structural transition of the protein that is propagated through signalling pathways to remote sites and involves marked changes on the tertiary and sometimes even the quaternary level1-5. However, the origin of these signals and the molecular mechanism of long-range signalling at an atomic level remain unclear5-8. The different spatial scales and timescales in signalling pathways render experimental observation challenging; in particular, the positions and movement of mobile protons cannot be visualized by current methods of structural analysis. Here we report the experimental observation of fluctuating low-barrier hydrogen bonds as switching elements in cooperativity pathways of multimeric enzymes. We have observed these low-barrier hydrogen bonds in ultra-high-resolution X-ray crystallographic structures of two multimeric enzymes, and have validated their assignment using computational calculations. Catalytic events at the active sites switch between low-barrier hydrogen bonds and ordinary hydrogen bonds in a circuit that consists of acidic side chains and water molecules, transmitting a signal through the collective repositioning of protons by behaving as an atomistic Newton's cradle. The resulting communication synchronizes catalysis in the oligomer. Our studies provide several lines of evidence and a working model for not only the existence of low-barrier hydrogen bonds in proteins, but also a connection to enzyme cooperativity. This finding suggests new principles of drug and enzyme design, in which sequences of residues can be purposefully included to enable long-range communication and thus the regulation of engineered biomolecules.
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- Shaobo Dai
- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Göttingen Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Albrecht-von-Haller Institute, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Structural Dynamics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Göttingen Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Albrecht-von-Haller Institute, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Structural Dynamics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Göttingen Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Albrecht-von-Haller Institute, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Structural Dynamics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Göttingen Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Albrecht-von-Haller Institute, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.,Department of Structural Dynamics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
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- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Göttingen Centre for Molecular Biosciences and Albrecht-von-Haller Institute, Georg-August University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. .,Department of Structural Dynamics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
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Chen PYT, DeColli AA, Freel Meyers CL, Drennan CL. X-ray crystallography-based structural elucidation of enzyme-bound intermediates along the 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase reaction coordinate. J Biol Chem 2019; 294:12405-12414. [PMID: 31239351 PMCID: PMC6699841 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.009321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2019] [Revised: 06/16/2019] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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1-Deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXPS) uses thiamine diphosphate (ThDP) to convert pyruvate and d-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (d-GAP) into 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP), an essential bacterial metabolite. DXP is not utilized by humans; hence, DXPS has been an attractive antibacterial target. Here, we investigate DXPS from Deinococcus radiodurans (DrDXPS), showing that it has similar kinetic parameters Kmd-GAP and Kmpyruvate (54 ± 3 and 11 ± 1 μm, respectively) and comparable catalytic activity (kcat = 45 ± 2 min-1) with previously studied bacterial DXPS enzymes and employing it to obtain missing structural data on this enzyme family. In particular, we have determined crystallographic snapshots of DrDXPS in two states along the reaction coordinate: a structure of DrDXPS bound to C2α-phosphonolactylThDP (PLThDP), mimicking the native pre-decarboxylation intermediate C2α-lactylThDP (LThDP), and a native post-decarboxylation state with a bound enamine intermediate. The 1.94-Å-resolution structure of PLThDP-bound DrDXPS delineates how two active-site histidine residues stabilize the LThDP intermediate. Meanwhile, the 2.40-Å-resolution structure of an enamine intermediate-bound DrDXPS reveals how a previously unknown 17-Å conformational change removes one of the two histidine residues from the active site, likely triggering LThDP decarboxylation to form the enamine intermediate. These results provide insight into how the bi-substrate enzyme DXPS limits side reactions by arresting the reaction on the less reactive LThDP intermediate when its cosubstrate is absent. They also offer a molecular basis for previous low-resolution experimental observations that correlate decarboxylation of LThDP with protein conformational changes.
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- Percival Yang-Ting Chen
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, To whom correspondence may be addressed:
Dept. of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205. Tel.:
410-502-4807; Fax:
410-955-3023; E-mail:
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, A Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a senior fellow of the Bio-inspired Solar Energy Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). To whom correspondence may be addressed:
Depts. of Biology and Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 Ames St., Bldg. 68-680, Cambridge, MA 02139. Tel.:
617-253-5622; Fax:
617-258-7847; E-mail:
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Human 2-Oxoglutarate Dehydrogenase and 2-Oxoadipate Dehydrogenase Both Generate Superoxide/H 2O 2 in a Side Reaction and Each Could Contribute to Oxidative Stress in Mitochondria. Neurochem Res 2019; 44:2325-2335. [PMID: 30847859 DOI: 10.1007/s11064-019-02765-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2018] [Revised: 02/25/2019] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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According to recent findings, the human 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (hOGDHc) could be an important source of the reactive oxygen species in the mitochondria and could contribute to mitochondrial abnormalities associated with multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Huntington disease, and Parkinson's disease. The human 2-oxoadipate dehydrogenase (hE1a) is a novel protein, which is encoded by the DHTKD1 gene. Both missence and nonsense mutations were identified in the DHTKD1 that lead to alpha-aminoadipic and alpha-oxoadipic aciduria, a metabolic disorder with a wide variety of the neurological abnormalities, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2Q, an inherited neurological disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system. Recently, the rare pathogenic mutations in DHTKD1 and an increased H2O2 production were linked to the genetic ethiology of Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE), a chronic allergic inflammatory esophageal disorder. In view of the importance of hOGDHc in the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) and hE1a on the L-lysine, L-hydroxylysine and L-tryptophan degradation pathway in mitochondria, and to enhance our current understanding of the mechanism of superoxide/H2O2 generation by hOGDHc, and by human 2-oxoadipate dehydrogenase complex (hOADHc), this review focuses on several novel and unanticipated recent findings in vitro that emerged from the Jordan group's research. Most significantly, the hE1o and hE1a now join the hE3 as being able to generate the superoxide/H2O2 in mitochondria.
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Planas F, McLeish MJ, Himo F. Computational characterization of enzyme-bound thiamin diphosphate reveals a surprisingly stable tricyclic state: implications for catalysis. Beilstein J Org Chem 2019; 15:145-159. [PMID: 30745990 PMCID: PMC6350894 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.15.15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 12/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Thiamin diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzymes constitute a large class of enzymes that catalyze a diverse range of reactions. Many are involved in stereospecific carbon–carbon bond formation and, consequently, have found increasing interest and utility as chiral catalysts in various biocatalytic applications. All ThDP-catalyzed reactions require the reaction of the ThDP ylide (the activated state of the cofactor) with the substrate. Given that the cofactor can adopt up to seven states on an enzyme, identifying the factors affecting the stability of the pre-reactant states is important for the overall understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of the individual reactions. In this paper we use density functional theory calculations to systematically study the different cofactor states in terms of energies and geometries. Benzoylformate decarboxylase (BFDC), which is a well characterized chiral catalyst, serves as the prototypical ThDP-dependent enzyme. A model of the active site was constructed on the basis of available crystal structures, and the cofactor states were characterized in the presence of three different ligands (crystallographic water, benzoylformate as substrate, and (R)-mandelate as inhibitor). Overall, the calculations reveal that the relative stabilities of the cofactor states are greatly affected by the presence and identity of the bound ligands. A surprising finding is that benzoylformate binding, while favoring ylide formation, provided even greater stabilization to a catalytically inactive tricyclic state. Conversely, the inhibitor binding greatly destabilized the ylide formation. Together, these observations have significant implications for the reaction kinetics of the ThDP-dependent enzymes, and, potentially, for the use of unnatural substrates in such reactions.
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- Ferran Planas
- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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High-yield production of D-1,2,4-butanetriol from lignocellulose-derived xylose by using a synthetic enzyme cascade in a cell-free system. J Biotechnol 2019; 292:76-83. [PMID: 30703470 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2019.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 01/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Approaches using metabolic engineering to produce D-1, 2, 4-butanetriol (BT) from renewable biomass in microbial systems have achieved initial success. However, due to the lack of incomplete understanding of the complex branch pathway, the efficient fermentation system for BT production was difficult to develop. Here we reconstituted a cell-free system in vitro using purified enzymes to produce BT from d-xylose. The factors that influencing the efficiency of cell-free system, including enzyme concentration, reaction buffer, pH, temperature, metal ion additives and cofactors were first identified to define optimal reaction conditions and essential components for the cascade reaction. Meanwhile, a natural cofactor recycling system was found in cell-free system. Finally, we were able to convert 18 g/L xylose to 6.1 g/L BT within 40 h with a yield of 48.0%. The feasibility of cell-free system to produce BT in corncob hydrolysates was also determined.
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Two active site arginines are critical determinants of substrate binding and catalysis in MenD: a thiamine-dependent enzyme in menaquinone biosynthesis. Biochem J 2018; 475:3651-3667. [DOI: 10.1042/bcj20180548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2018] [Revised: 10/10/2018] [Accepted: 10/17/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The bacterial enzyme MenD, or 2-succinyl-5-enolpyruvyl-6-hydroxy-3-cyclohexene-1-carboxylate (SEPHCHC) synthase, catalyzes an essential Stetter reaction in menaquinone (vitamin K2) biosynthesis via thiamine diphosphate (ThDP)-bound tetrahedral post-decarboxylation intermediates. The detailed mechanism of this intermediate chemistry, however, is still poorly understood, but of significant interest given that menaquinone is an essential electron transporter in many pathogenic bacteria. Here, we used site-directed mutagenesis, enzyme kinetic assays, and protein crystallography to reveal an active–inactive intermediate equilibrium in MenD catalysis and its modulation by two conserved active site arginine residues. We observed that these conserved residues play a key role in shifting the equilibrium to the active intermediate by orienting the C2-succinyl group of the intermediates through strong ionic hydrogen bonding. We found that when this interaction is moderately weakened by amino acid substitutions, the resulting proteins are catalytically competent with the C2-succinyl group taking either the active or the inactive orientation in the post-decarboxylation intermediate. When this hydrogen-bonding interaction was strongly weakened, the succinyl group was re-oriented by 180° relative to the native intermediate, resulting in the reversal of the stereochemistry at the reaction center that disabled catalysis. Interestingly, this inactive intermediate was formed with a distinct kinetic behavior, likely as a result of a non-native mode of enzyme–substrate interaction. The mechanistic insights gained from these findings improve our understanding of the new ThDP-dependent catalysis. More importantly, the non-native-binding site of the inactive MenD intermediate uncovered here provides a new target for the development of antibiotics.
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Bartee D, Freel Meyers CL. Toward Understanding the Chemistry and Biology of 1-Deoxy-d-xylulose 5-Phosphate (DXP) Synthase: A Unique Antimicrobial Target at the Heart of Bacterial Metabolism. Acc Chem Res 2018; 51:2546-2555. [PMID: 30203647 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Antibiotics are the cornerstone of modern healthcare. The 20th century discovery of sulfonamides and β-lactam antibiotics altered human society immensely. Simple bacterial infections were no longer a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, and antibiotic prophylaxis greatly reduced the risk of infection from surgery. The current healthcare system requires effective antibiotics to function. However, antibiotic-resistant infections are becoming increasingly prevalent, threatening the emergence of a postantibiotic era. To prevent this public health crisis, antibiotics with novel modes of action are needed. Currently available antibiotics target just a few cellular processes to exert their activity: DNA, RNA, protein, and cell wall biosynthesis. Bacterial central metabolism is underexploited, offering a wealth of potential new targets that can be pursued toward expanding the armamentarium against microbial infections. Discovered in 1997 as the first enzyme in the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway, 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) synthase is a thiamine diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzyme that catalyzes the decarboxylative condensation of pyruvate and d-glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate (d-GAP) to form DXP. This five-carbon metabolite feeds into three separate essential pathways for bacterial central metabolism: ThDP synthesis, pyridoxal phosphate (PLP) synthesis, and the MEP pathway for isoprenoid synthesis. While it has long been identified as a target for the development of antimicrobial agents, limited progress has been made toward developing selective inhibitors of the enzyme. This Account highlights advances from our lab over the past decade to understand this important and unique enzyme. Unlike all other known ThDP-dependent enzymes, DXP synthase uses a random-sequential mechanism that requires the formation of a ternary complex prior to decarboxylation of the lactyl-ThDP intermediate. Its large active site accommodates a variety of acceptor substrates, lending itself to a number of alternative activities, such as the production of α-hydroxy ketones, hydroxamates, amides, acetolactate, and peracetate. Knowledge gained from mechanistic and substrate-specificity studies has guided the development of selective inhibitors with antibacterial activity and provides a biochemical foundation toward understanding DXP synthase function in bacterial cells. Although it is a promising drug target, the centrality of DXP synthase in bacterial metabolism imparts specific challenges to assessing antibacterial activity of DXP synthase inhibitors, and the susceptibility of most bacteria to current DXP synthase inhibitors is remarkably culture-medium-dependent. Despite these challenges, the study of DXP synthase is poised to reveal the role of DXP synthase in bacterial metabolic adaptability during infection, ultimately providing a more complete picture of how inhibiting this crucial enzyme can be used to develop novel antibiotics.
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- David Bartee
- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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Whitley MJ, Arjunan P, Nemeria NS, Korotchkina LG, Park YH, Patel MS, Jordan F, Furey W. Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency is linked to regulatory loop disorder in the αV138M variant of human pyruvate dehydrogenase. J Biol Chem 2018; 293:13204-13213. [PMID: 29970614 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.003996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2018] [Revised: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex (PDHc) connects glycolysis to the tricarboxylic acid cycle by producing acetyl-CoA via the decarboxylation of pyruvate. Because of its pivotal role in glucose metabolism, this complex is closely regulated in mammals by reversible phosphorylation, the modulation of which is of interest in treating cancer, diabetes, and obesity. Mutations such as that leading to the αV138M variant in pyruvate dehydrogenase, the pyruvate-decarboxylating PDHc E1 component, can result in PDHc deficiency, an inborn error of metabolism that results in an array of symptoms such as lactic acidosis, progressive cognitive and neuromuscular deficits, and even death in infancy or childhood. Here we present an analysis of two X-ray crystal structures at 2.7-Å resolution, the first of the disease-associated human αV138M E1 variant and the second of human wildtype (WT) E1 with a bound adduct of its coenzyme thiamin diphosphate and the substrate analogue acetylphosphinate. The structures provide support for the role of regulatory loop disorder in E1 inactivation, and the αV138M variant structure also reveals that altered coenzyme binding can result in such disorder even in the absence of phosphorylation. Specifically, both E1 phosphorylation at αSer-264 and the αV138M substitution result in disordered loops that are not optimally oriented or available to efficiently bind the lipoyl domain of PDHc E2. Combined with an analysis of αV138M activity, these results underscore the general connection between regulatory loop disorder and loss of E1 catalytic efficiency.
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- Matthew J Whitley
- From the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- From the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07102
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- the Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14203, and
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- the Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14203, and
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- the Department of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14203, and
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- the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07102
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- From the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, .,the Biocrystallography Laboratory, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15240
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Qin M, Song H, Dai X, Chan C, Chan W, Guo Z. Single‐Turnover Kinetics Reveal a Distinct Mode of Thiamine Diphosphate‐Dependent Catalysis in Vitamin K Biosynthesis. Chembiochem 2018; 19:1514-1522. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201800143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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- Mingming Qin
- Department of ChemistryThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
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- Department of ChemistryThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
- Present address: Division of Structural BiologyWellcome Trust Centre of Human GenomicsUniversity of Oxford Roosevelt Drive Oxford OX3 7BN UK
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- Department of ChemistryThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
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- Department of ChemistryThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
- Environmental Science ProgramThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
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- Department of ChemistryThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
- Environmental Science ProgramThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
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- Department of ChemistryThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay Kowloon Hong Kong
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Nemeria NS, Gerfen G, Nareddy PR, Yang L, Zhang X, Szostak M, Jordan F. The mitochondrial 2-oxoadipate and 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complexes share their E2 and E3 components for their function and both generate reactive oxygen species. Free Radic Biol Med 2018; 115:136-145. [PMID: 29191460 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2017.11.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2017] [Revised: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 11/22/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Herein are reported unique properties of the novel human thiamin diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzyme 2-oxoadipate dehydrogenase (hE1a), known as dehydrogenase E1 and transketolase domain-containing protein 1 that is encoded by the DHTKD1 gene. It is involved in the oxidative decarboxylation of 2-oxoadipate (OA) to glutaryl-CoA on the final degradative pathway of L-lysine and is critical for mitochondrial metabolism. Functionally active recombinant hE1a has been produced according to both kinetic and spectroscopic criteria in our toolbox leading to the following conclusions: (i) The hE1a has recruited the dihydrolipoyl succinyltransferase (hE2o) and the dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase (hE3) components of the tricarboxylic acid cycle 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (OGDHc) for its activity. (ii) 2-Oxoglutarate (OG) and 2-oxoadipate (OA) could be oxidized by hE1a, however, hE1a displays an approximately 49-fold preference in catalytic efficiency for OA over OG, indicating that hE1a is specific to the 2-oxoadipate dehydrogenase complex. (iii) The hE1a forms the ThDP-enamine radical from OA according to electron paramagnetic resonance detection in the oxidative half reaction, and could produce superoxide and H2O2 from decarboxylation of OA in the forward physiological direction, as also seen with the 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase hE1o component. (iv) Once assembled to complex with the same hE2o and hE3 components, the hE1o and hE1a display strikingly different regulation: both succinyl-CoA and glutaryl-CoA significantly reduced the hE1o activity, but not the activity of hE1a.
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- Natalia S Nemeria
- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102-1811, USA.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461-2304, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102-1811, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102-1811, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102-1811, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102-1811, USA.
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Pallitsch K, Rogers MP, Andrews FH, Hammerschmidt F, McLeish MJ. Phosphonodifluoropyruvate is a mechanism-based inhibitor of phosphonopyruvate decarboxylase from Bacteroides fragilis. Bioorg Med Chem 2017; 25:4368-4374. [PMID: 28693916 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2017.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Revised: 06/11/2017] [Accepted: 06/12/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Bacteroides fragilis, a human pathogen, helps in the formation of intra-abdominal abscesses and is involved in 90% of anaerobic peritoneal infections. Phosphonopyruvate decarboxylase (PnPDC), a thiamin diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzyme, plays a key role in the formation of 2-aminoethylphosphonate, a component of the cell wall of B. fragilis. As such PnPDC is a possible target for therapeutic intervention in this, and other phosphonate producing organisms. However, the enzyme is of more general interest as it appears to be an evolutionary forerunner to the decarboxylase family of ThDP-dependent enzymes. To date, PnPDC has proved difficult to crystallize and no X-ray structures are available. In the past we have shown that ThDP-dependent enzymes will often crystallize if the cofactor has been irreversibly inactivated. To explore this possibility, and the utility of inhibitors of phosphonate biosynthesis as potential antibiotics, we synthesized phosphonodifluoropyruvate (PnDFP) as a prospective mechanism-based inhibitor of PnPDC. Here we provide evidence that PnDFP indeed inactivates the enzyme, that the inactivation is irreversible, and is accompanied by release of fluoride ion, i.e., PnDFP bears all the hallmarks of a mechanism-based inhibitor. Unfortunately, the enzyme remains refractive to crystallization.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, USA.
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Paulikat M, Wechsler C, Tittmann K, Mata RA. Theoretical Studies of the Electronic Absorption Spectra of Thiamin Diphosphate in Pyruvate Decarboxylase. Biochemistry 2017; 56:1854-1864. [PMID: 28296385 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Electronic absorption spectra are oftentimes used to identify reaction intermediates or substrates/products in enzymatic systems, as long as absorption bands can be unequivocally assigned to the species being studied. The latter task is far from trivial given the transient nature of some states and the complexity of the surrounding environment around the active site. To identify unique spectral fingerprints, controlled experiments with model compounds have been used in the past, but even these can sometimes be unreliable. Circular dichroism (CD) and ultraviolet-visible spectra have been tools of choice in the study of the rich chemistry of thiamin diphosphate-dependent enzymes. In this study, we focus on the Zymomonas mobilis pyruvate decarboxylase, and mutant analogues thereof, as a prototypical representative of the thiamin diphosphate (ThDP) enzyme superfamily. Through the use of electronic structure methods, we analyze the nature of electronic excitations in the cofactor. We find that all the determining CD bands around the 280-340 nm spectral range correspond to charge-transfer excitations between the pyrimidine and thiazolium rings of ThDP, which, most likely, is a general property of related ThDP-dependent enzymes. While we can confirm the assignments of previously proposed bands to chemical states, our calculations further suggest that a hitherto unassigned band of enzyme-bound ThDP reports on the ionization state of the canonical glutamate that is required for cofactor activation. This finding expands the spectroscopic "library" of chemical states of ThDP enzymes, permitting a simultaneous assignment of both the cofactor ThDP and the activating glutamate. We anticipate this finding to be helpful for mechanistic analyses of related ThDP enzymes.
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- Mirko Paulikat
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Goettingen , Tammannstraße 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, University of Goettingen , Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 3, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Enzymology, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, University of Goettingen , Julia-Lermontowa-Weg 3, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Goettingen , Tammannstraße 6, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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White JK, Handa S, Vankayala SL, Merkler DJ, Woodcock HL. Thiamin Diphosphate Activation in 1-Deoxy-d-xylulose 5-Phosphate Synthase: Insights into the Mechanism and Underlying Intermolecular Interactions. J Phys Chem B 2016; 120:9922-34. [PMID: 27537621 PMCID: PMC5379999 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b07248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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1-Deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS) is a thiamin diphosphate (TDP) dependent enzyme that marks the beginning of the methylerythritol 4-phosphate isoprenoid biosynthesis pathway. The mechanism of action for DXS is still poorly understood and begins with the formation of a thiazolium ylide. This TDP activation step is thought to proceed through an intramolecular deprotonation by the 4'-aminopyrimidine ring of TDP; however, this step would occur only after an initial deprotonation of its own 4'-amino group. The mechanism of the initial deprotonation has been hypothesized, by analogy to transketolases, to occur via a histidine or an active site water molecule. Results from hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical (QM/MM) reaction path calculations reveal an ∼10 kcal/mol difference in transition state energies, favoring a water mediated mechanism over direct deprotonation by histidine. This difference was determined to be largely governed by electrostatic changes induced by conformational variations in the active site. Additionally, mutagenesis studies reveal DXS to be an evolutionarily resilient enzyme. Particularly, we hypothesize that residues H82 and H304 may act in a compensatory fashion if the other is lost due to mutation. Further, nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICSs) and aromatic stabilization energy (ASE) calculations suggest that reduction in TDP aromaticity also serves as a factor for regulating ylide formation and controlling reactivity.
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- Justin K. White
- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CHE205, Tampa, Florida 33620-5250, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CHE205, Tampa, Florida 33620-5250, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0332, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CHE205, Tampa, Florida 33620-5250, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CHE205, Tampa, Florida 33620-5250, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, CHE205, Tampa, Florida 33620-5250, United States
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Nauton L, Hélaine V, Théry V, Hecquet L. Insights into the Thiamine Diphosphate Enzyme Activation Mechanism: Computational Model for Transketolase Using a Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Method. Biochemistry 2016; 55:2144-52. [PMID: 26998737 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00787] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We propose the first computational model for transketolase (TK), a thiamine diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzyme, using a quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical method on the basis of crystallographic TK structures from yeast and Escherichia coli, together with experimental kinetic data reported in the literature with wild-type and mutant TK. This model allowed us to define a new route for ThDP activation in the enzyme environment. We evidenced a strong interaction between ThDP and Glu418B of the TK active site, itself stabilized by Glu162A. The crucial point highlighted here is that deprotonation of ThDP C2 is not performed by ThDP N4' as reported in the literature, but by His481B, involving a HOH688A molecule bridge. Thus, ThDP N4' is converted from an amino form to an iminium form, ensuring the stabilization of the C2 carbanion or carbene. Finally, ThDP activation proceeds via an intermolecular process and not by an intramolecular one as reported in the literature. More generally, this proposed ThDP activation mechanism can be applied to some other ThDP-dependent enzymes and used to define the entire TK mechanism with donor and acceptor substrates more accurately.
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- Lionel Nauton
- Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Blaise-Pascal , Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.,CNRS , UMR 6296, ICCF, F-63178 Aubiere, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Blaise-Pascal , Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.,CNRS , UMR 6296, ICCF, F-63178 Aubiere, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Blaise-Pascal , Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.,CNRS , UMR 6296, ICCF, F-63178 Aubiere, France
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, Université Blaise-Pascal , Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, BP 10448, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.,CNRS , UMR 6296, ICCF, F-63178 Aubiere, France
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Nemeria NS, Shome B, DeColli AA, Heflin K, Begley TP, Meyers CF, Jordan F. Competence of Thiamin Diphosphate-Dependent Enzymes with 2'-Methoxythiamin Diphosphate Derived from Bacimethrin, a Naturally Occurring Thiamin Anti-vitamin. Biochemistry 2016; 55:1135-48. [PMID: 26813608 PMCID: PMC4852132 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b01300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Bacimethrin (4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methoxypyrimidine), a natural product isolated from some bacteria, has been implicated as an inhibitor of bacterial and yeast growth, as well as in inhibition of thiamin biosynthesis. Given that thiamin biosynthetic enzymes could convert bacimethrin to 2'-methoxythiamin diphosphate (MeOThDP), it is important to evaluate the effect of this coenzyme analogue on thiamin diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzymes. The potential functions of MeOThDP were explored on five ThDP-dependent enzymes: the human and Escherichia coli pyruvate dehydrogenase complexes (PDHc-h and PDHc-ec, respectively), the E. coli 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXPS), and the human and E. coli 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complexes (OGDHc-h and OGDHc-ec, respectively). Using several mechanistic tools (fluorescence, circular dichroism, kinetics, and mass spectrometry), it was demonstrated that MeOThDP binds in the active centers of ThDP-dependent enzymes, however, with a binding mode different from that of ThDP. While modest activities resulted from addition of MeOThDP to E. coli PDHc (6-11%) and DXPS (9-14%), suggesting that MeOThDP-derived covalent intermediates are converted to the corresponding products (albeit with rates slower than that with ThDP), remarkably strong activity (up to 75%) resulted upon addition of the coenzyme analogue to PDHc-h. With PDHc-ec and PDHc-h, the coenzyme analogue could support all reactions, including communication between components in the complex. No functional substitution of MeOThDP for ThDP was in evidence with either OGDH-h or OGDH-ec, shown to be due to tight binding of ThDP.
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- Natalia S. Nemeria
- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77842, United States
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- Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102, United States
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Lizana I, Jaña GA, Delgado EJ. New Insights on the Reaction Pathway Leading to Lactyl-ThDP: A Theoretical Approach. J Chem Inf Model 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ignacio Lizana
- Computational
Chemistry Group, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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- Departamento
de Ciencias Químicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Sede Concepción, Universidad Andrés Bello, Concepción, Chile
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- Computational
Chemistry Group, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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Slow proton transfer dynamics of a four member intramolecular hydrogen bonded isoindole fused imidazole system: A spectroscopic approach to photophysical properties. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2014.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Neumann P, Tittmann K. Marvels of enzyme catalysis at true atomic resolution: distortions, bond elongations, hidden flips, protonation states and atom identities. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2014; 29:122-33. [PMID: 25460275 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2014.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Revised: 10/31/2014] [Accepted: 11/03/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Although general principles of enzyme catalysis are fairly well understood nowadays, many important details of how exactly the substrate is bound and processed in an enzyme remain often invisible and as such elusive. In fortunate cases, structural analysis of enzymes can be accomplished at true atomic resolution thus making possible to shed light on otherwise concealed fine-structural traits of bound substrates, intermediates, cofactors and protein groups. We highlight recent structural studies of enzymes using ultrahigh-resolution X-ray protein crystallography showcasing its enormous potential as a tool in the elucidation of enzymatic mechanisms and in unveiling fundamental principles of enzyme catalysis. We discuss the observation of seemingly hyper-reactive, physically distorted cofactors and intermediates with elongated scissile substrate bonds, the detection of 'hidden' conformational and chemical equilibria and the analysis of protonation states with surprising findings. In delicate cases, atomic resolution is required to unambiguously disclose the identity of atoms as demonstrated for the metal cluster in nitrogenase. In addition to the pivotal structural findings and the implications for our understanding of enzyme catalysis, we further provide a practical framework for resolution enhancement through optimized data acquisition and processing.
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- Piotr Neumann
- Abteilung für Molekulare Strukturbiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Göttinger Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften (GZMB), Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany.
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- Abteilung Molekulare Enzymologie, Göttinger Zentrum für Molekulare Biowissenschaften (GZMB), Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen D-37077, Germany.
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van Zyl LJ, Schubert WD, Tuffin MI, Cowan DA. Structure and functional characterization of pyruvate decarboxylase from Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus. BMC STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2014; 14:21. [PMID: 25369873 PMCID: PMC4428508 DOI: 10.1186/s12900-014-0021-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2014] [Accepted: 09/25/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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BACKGROUND Bacterial pyruvate decarboxylases (PDC) are rare. Their role in ethanol production and in bacterially mediated ethanologenic processes has, however, ensured a continued and growing interest. PDCs from Zymomonas mobilis (ZmPDC), Zymobacter palmae (ZpPDC) and Sarcina ventriculi (SvPDC) have been characterized and ZmPDC has been produced successfully in a range of heterologous hosts. PDCs from the Acetobacteraceae and their role in metabolism have not been characterized to the same extent. Examples include Gluconobacter oxydans (GoPDC), G. diazotrophicus (GdPDC) and Acetobacter pasteutrianus (ApPDC). All of these organisms are of commercial importance. RESULTS This study reports the kinetic characterization and the crystal structure of a PDC from Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus (GdPDC). Enzyme kinetic analysis indicates a high affinity for pyruvate (K M 0.06 mM at pH 5), high catalytic efficiencies (1.3 • 10(6) M(-1) • s(-1) at pH 5), pHopt of 5.5 and Topt at 45°C. The enzyme is not thermostable (T½ of 18 minutes at 60°C) and the calculated number of bonds between monomers and dimers do not give clear indications for the relatively lower thermostability compared to other PDCs. The structure is highly similar to those described for Z. mobilis (ZmPDC) and A. pasteurianus PDC (ApPDC) with a rmsd value of 0.57 Å for Cα when comparing GdPDC to that of ApPDC. Indole-3-pyruvate does not serve as a substrate for the enzyme. Structural differences occur in two loci, involving the regions Thr341 to Thr352 and Asn499 to Asp503. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study of the PDC from G. diazotrophicus (PAL5) and lays the groundwork for future research into its role in this endosymbiont. The crystal structure of GdPDC indicates the enzyme to be evolutionarily closely related to homologues from Z. mobilis and A. pasteurianus and suggests strong selective pressure to keep the enzyme characteristics in a narrow range. The pH optimum together with reduced thermostability likely reflect the host organisms niche and conditions under which these properties have been naturally selected for. The lack of activity on indole-3-pyruvate excludes this decarboxylase as the enzyme responsible for indole acetic acid production in G. diazotrophicus.
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- Leonardo J van Zyl
- Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western Cape, Robert Sobukwe Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa.
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, 2 Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.
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- Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics (IMBM), University of the Western Cape, Robert Sobukwe Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa.
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- Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.
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Iqbal A, Sahraoui EH, Leeper FJ. Gold(I)-catalysed synthesis of a furan analogue of thiamine pyrophosphate. Beilstein J Org Chem 2014; 10:2580-5. [PMID: 25383130 PMCID: PMC4222410 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.10.270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 10/16/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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An analogue of thiamine having a furan ring in place of the thiazolium ring has been synthesised by a short and efficient route, involving gold(I)-catalysed cyclisation of an alkynyl alcohol to form the furan ring. The furan analogue of thiamine diphosphate (ThDP) was also made and tested for binding to and inhibition of pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) from Zymomonas mobilis (overexpressed in E. coli with a N-terminal His-tag). It is a very strong inhibitor, with a K i value of 32.5 pM. It was also shown that the furan analogue of thiamine can be functionalised at the C-2 position, which will allow access to mimics of reaction intermediates of various ThDP-dependent enzymes.
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- Amjid Iqbal
- University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, U.K
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- University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, U.K
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- University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EW, U.K
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Tittmann K. Sweet siblings with different faces: the mechanisms of FBP and F6P aldolase, transaldolase, transketolase and phosphoketolase revisited in light of recent structural data. Bioorg Chem 2014; 57:263-280. [PMID: 25267444 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2014.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2014] [Revised: 08/25/2014] [Accepted: 09/01/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Nature has evolved different strategies for the reversible cleavage of ketose phosphosugars as essential metabolic reactions in all domains of life. Prominent examples are the Schiff-base forming class I FBP and F6P aldolase as well as transaldolase, which all exploit an active center lysine to reversibly cleave the C3-C4 bond of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate or fructose-6-phosphate to give two 3-carbon products (aldolase), or to shuttle 3-carbon units between various phosphosugars (transaldolase). In contrast, transketolase and phosphoketolase make use of the bioorganic cofactor thiamin diphosphate to cleave the preceding C2-C3 bond of ketose phosphates. While transketolase catalyzes the reversible transfer of 2-carbon ketol fragments in a reaction analogous to that of transaldolase, phosphoketolase forms acetyl phosphate as final product in a reaction that comprises ketol cleavage, dehydration and phosphorolysis. In this review, common and divergent catalytic principles of these enzymes will be discussed, mostly, but not exclusively, on the basis of crystallographic snapshots of catalysis. These studies in combination with mutagenesis and kinetic analysis not only delineated the stereochemical course of substrate binding and processing, but also identified key catalytic players acting at the various stages of the reaction. The structural basis for the different chemical fates and lifetimes of the central enamine intermediates in all five enzymes will be particularly discussed, in addition to the mechanisms of substrate cleavage, dehydration and ring-opening reactions of cyclic substrates. The observation of covalent enzymatic intermediates in hyperreactive conformations such as Schiff-bases with twisted double-bond linkages in transaldolase and physically distorted substrate-thiamin conjugates with elongated substrate bonds to be cleaved in transketolase, which probably epitomize a canonical feature of enzyme catalysis, will be also highlighted.
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- Kai Tittmann
- Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Georg-August University Göttingen, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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Jordan F, Nemeria NS. Progress in the experimental observation of thiamin diphosphate-bound intermediates on enzymes and mechanistic information derived from these observations. Bioorg Chem 2014; 57:251-262. [PMID: 25228115 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2014.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 08/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Thiamin diphosphate (ThDP), the vitamin B1 coenzyme is an excellent representative of coenzymes, which carry out electrophilic catalysis by forming a covalent complex with their substrates. The function of ThDP is to greatly increase the acidity of two carbon acids by stabilizing their conjugate bases, the ylide/carbene/C2-carbanion of the thiazolium ring and the C2α-carbanion/enamine, once the substrate binds to ThDP. In recent years, several ThDP-bound intermediates on such pathways have been characterized by both solution and solid-state methods. Prominent among these advances are X-ray crystallographic results identifying both oxidative and non-oxidative intermediates, rapid chemical quench followed by NMR detection of several intermediates which are stable under acidic conditions, solid-state NMR and circular dichroism detection of the states of ionization and tautomerization of the 4'-aminopyrimidine moiety of ThDP in some of the intermediates. These methods also enabled in some cases determination of the rate-limiting step in the complex series of steps. This review is an update of a review with the same title published by the authors in 2005 in this Journal. Much progress has been made in the intervening decade in the identification of the intermediates and their application to gain additional mechanistic insight.
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- Frank Jordan
- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
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Patel MS, Nemeria NS, Furey W, Jordan F. The pyruvate dehydrogenase complexes: structure-based function and regulation. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:16615-23. [PMID: 24798336 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.r114.563148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 378] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The pyruvate dehydrogenase complexes (PDCs) from all known living organisms comprise three principal catalytic components for their mission: E1 and E2 generate acetyl-coenzyme A, whereas the FAD/NAD(+)-dependent E3 performs redox recycling. Here we compare bacterial (Escherichia coli) and human PDCs, as they represent the two major classes of the superfamily of 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase complexes with different assembly of, and interactions among components. The human PDC is subject to inactivation at E1 by serine phosphorylation by four kinases, an inactivation reversed by the action of two phosphatases. Progress in our understanding of these complexes important in metabolism is reviewed.
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- Mulchand S Patel
- From the Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14214,
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- the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07102
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- the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15240
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- the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey 07102,
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Wang J, Nemeria NS, Chandrasekhar K, Kumaran S, Arjunan P, Reynolds S, Calero G, Brukh R, Kakalis L, Furey W, Jordan F. Structure and function of the catalytic domain of the dihydrolipoyl acetyltransferase component in Escherichia coli pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. J Biol Chem 2014; 289:15215-30. [PMID: 24742683 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.544080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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The Escherichia coli pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) catalyzing conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA comprises three components: E1p, E2p, and E3. The E2p is the five-domain core component, consisting of three tandem lipoyl domains (LDs), a peripheral subunit binding domain (PSBD), and a catalytic domain (E2pCD). Herein are reported the following. 1) The x-ray structure of E2pCD revealed both intra- and intertrimer interactions, similar to those reported for other E2pCDs. 2) Reconstitution of recombinant LD and E2pCD with E1p and E3p into PDHc could maintain at least 6.4% activity (NADH production), confirming the functional competence of the E2pCD and active center coupling among E1p, LD, E2pCD, and E3 even in the absence of PSBD and of a covalent link between domains within E2p. 3) Direct acetyl transfer between LD and coenzyme A catalyzed by E2pCD was observed with a rate constant of 199 s(-1), comparable with the rate of NADH production in the PDHc reaction. Hence, neither reductive acetylation of E2p nor acetyl transfer within E2p is rate-limiting. 4) An unprecedented finding is that although no interaction could be detected between E1p and E2pCD by itself, a domain-induced interaction was identified on E1p active centers upon assembly with E2p and C-terminally truncated E2p proteins by hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. The inclusion of each additional domain of E2p strengthened the interaction with E1p, and the interaction was strongest with intact E2p. E2p domain-induced changes at the E1p active site were also manifested by the appearance of a circular dichroism band characteristic of the canonical 4'-aminopyrimidine tautomer of bound thiamin diphosphate (AP).
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- Junjie Wang
- From the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102
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- the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102
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- the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- the Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- the Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102
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- the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15240, and
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- From the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102,
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Patel H, Nemeria NS, Andrews FH, McLeish MJ, Jordan F. Identification of charge transfer transitions related to thiamin-bound intermediates on enzymes provides a plethora of signatures useful in mechanistic studies. Biochemistry 2014; 53:2145-52. [PMID: 24628377 PMCID: PMC3985856 DOI: 10.1021/bi4015743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Identification
of enzyme-bound intermediates via their spectroscopic
signatures, which then allows direct monitoring of the kinetic fate
of these intermediates, poses a continuing challenge. As an electrophilic
covalent catalyst, the thiamin diphosphate (ThDP) coenzyme forms a
number of noncovalent and covalent intermediates along its reaction
pathways, and multiple UV–vis and circular dichroism (CD) bands
have been identified at Rutgers pertinent to several among them. These
electronic transitions fall into two classes: those for which the
conjugated system provides a reasonable guide to the observed λmax and others in which there is no corresponding conjugated
system and the observed CD bands are best ascribed to charge transfer
(CT) transitions. Herein is reported the reaction of four ThDP enzymes
with alternate substrates: (a) acetyl pyruvate, its methyl ester,
and fluoropyruvate, these providing the shortest side chains attached
at the thiazolium C2 atom and leading to CT bands with λmax values of >390 nm, not pertinent to any on-pathway conjugated
systems (estimated λmax values of <330 nm), and
(b) (E)-4-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-oxo-3-butenoic acid
displaying both a conjugated enamine (430 nm) and a CT transition
(480 nm). We suggest that the CT transitions result from an interaction
of the π bond on the ThDP C2 side chain as a donor, and the
positively charged thiazolium ring as an acceptor, and correspond
to covalent ThDP-bound intermediates. Time resolution of these bands
allows the rate constants for individual steps to be determined. These
CD methods can be applied to the entire ThDP superfamily of enzymes
and should find applications with other enzymes.
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- Hetalben Patel
- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Newark, New Jersey 07102, United States
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A dual conformation of the post-decarboxylation intermediate is associated with distinct enzyme states in mycobacterial KGD (α-ketoglutarate decarboxylase). Biochem J 2014; 457:425-34. [PMID: 24171907 DOI: 10.1042/bj20131142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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α-Ketoacid dehydrogenases are large multi-enzyme machineries that orchestrate the oxidative decarboxylation of α-ketoacids with the concomitant production of acyl-CoA and NADH. The first reaction, catalysed by α-ketoacid decarboxylases (E1 enzymes), needs a thiamine diphosphate cofactor and represents the overall rate-limiting step. Although the catalytic cycles of E1 from the pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1p) and branched-chain α-ketoacid dehydrogenase (E1b) complexes have been elucidated, little structural information is available on E1o, the first component of the α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex, despite the central role of this complex at the branching point between the TCA (tricarboxylic acid) cycle and glutamate metabolism. In the present study, we provide structural evidence that MsKGD, the E1o (α-ketoglutarate decarboxylase) from Mycobacterium smegmatis, shows two conformations of the post-decarboxylation intermediate, each one associated with a distinct enzyme state. We also provide an overall picture of the catalytic cycle, reconstructed by either crystallographic snapshots or modelling. The results of the present study show that the conformational change leading the enzyme from the initial (early) to the late state, although not required for decarboxylation, plays an essential role in catalysis and possibly in the regulation of mycobacterial E1o.
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Yan Z, Fushinobu S, Wakagi T. Four Cys residues in heterodimeric 2-oxoacid:ferredoxin oxidoreductase are required for CoA-dependent oxidative decarboxylation but not for a non-oxidative decarboxylation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2014; 1844:736-43. [PMID: 24491525 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2014.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2013] [Revised: 01/22/2014] [Accepted: 01/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Heterodimeric 2-oxoacid:ferredoxin oxidoreductase (OFOR) from Sulfolobus tokodaii (StOFOR) has only one [4Fe-4S]²⁺ cluster, ligated by 4 Cys residues, C12, C15, C46, and C197. The enzyme has no other Cys. To elucidate the role of these Cys residues in holding of the iron-sulfur cluster in the course of oxidative decarboxylation of a 2-oxoacid, one or two of these Cys residues was/were substituted with Ala to yield C12A, C15A, C46A, C197A and C12/15A mutants. All the mutants showed the loss of iron-sulfur cluster, except the C197A one which retained some unidentified type of iron-sulfur cluster. On addition of pyruvate to OFOR, the wild type enzyme exhibited a chromophore at 320nm and a stable large EPR signal corresponding to a hydroxyethyl-ThDP radical, while the mutant enzymes did not show formation of any radical intermediate or production of acetyl-CoA, suggesting that the intact [4Fe-4S] cluster is necessary for these processes. The stable radical intermediate in wild type OFOR was rapidly decomposed upon addition of CoA in the absence of an electron acceptor. Non-oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate, yielding acetaldehyde, has been reported to require CoA for other OFORs, but StOFOR catalyzed acetaldehyde production from pyruvate independent of CoA, regardless of whether the iron-sulfur cluster is intact [4Fe-4S] type or not. A comprehensive reaction scheme for StOFOR with a single cluster was proposed.
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- Zhen Yan
- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
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Andrews FH, McLeish MJ. Using site-saturation mutagenesis to explore mechanism and substrate specificity in thiamin diphosphate-dependent enzymes. FEBS J 2013; 280:6395-411. [DOI: 10.1111/febs.12459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2013] [Revised: 07/23/2013] [Accepted: 07/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Forest H. Andrews
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; IN USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology; Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; IN USA
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Electron density reactivity indexes of the tautomeric/ionization forms of thiamin diphosphate. J Mol Model 2013; 19:3799-803. [PMID: 23793740 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-013-1908-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2012] [Accepted: 06/03/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The generation of the highly reactive ylide in thiamin diphosphate catalysis is analyzed in terms of the nucleophilicity of key atoms, by means of density functional calculations at X3LYP/6-31++G(d,p) level of theory. The Fukui functions of all tautomeric/ionization forms are calculated in order to assess their reactivity. The results allow to conclude that the highly conserved glutamic residue does not protonate the N1' atom of the pyrimidyl ring, but it participates in a strong hydrogen bonding, stabilizing the eventual negative charge on the nitrogen, in all forms involved in the ylide generation. This condition provides the necessary reactivity on key atoms, N4' and C2, to carry out the formation of the ylide required to initiate the catalytic cycle of ThDP-dependent enzymes. This study represents a new approach for the ylide formation in ThDP catalysis.
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Observation of a stable carbene at the active site of a thiamin enzyme. Nat Chem Biol 2013; 9:488-90. [PMID: 23748673 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2012] [Accepted: 05/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Carbenes are highly reactive chemical compounds that are exploited as ligands in organometallic chemistry and are powerful organic catalysts. They were postulated to occur as transient intermediates in enzymes, yet their existence in a biological system could never be demonstrated directly. We present spectroscopic and structural data of a thiamin enzyme in a noncovalent complex with substrate, which implicate accumulation of a stable carbene as a major resonance contributor to deprotonated thiamin.
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Direct observation of ground-state lactam-lactim tautomerization using temperature-jump transient 2D IR spectroscopy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:9243-8. [PMID: 23690588 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1303235110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We provide a systematic characterization of the nanosecond ground-state lactam-lactim tautomerization of pyridone derivatives in aqueous solution under ambient conditions using temperature-jump transient 2D IR spectroscopy. Although electronic excited-state tautomerization has been widely studied, experimental work on the ground electronic state, most relevant to chemistry and biology, is lacking. Using 2D IR spectroscopy, lactam and lactim tautomers of 6-chloro-2-pyridone and 2-chloro-4-pyridone are unambiguously identified by their unique cross-peak patterns. Monitoring the correlated exponential relaxation of these signals in response to a laser temperature jump provides a direct measurement of the nanosecond tautomerization kinetics. By studying the temperature, concentration, solvent, and pH dependence, we extract a thermodynamic and kinetic characterization and conclude that the tautomerization proceeds through a two-state concerted mechanism. We find that the intramolecular proton transfer is mediated by bridging water molecules and the reaction barrier is dictated by the release of a proton from pyridone, as would be expected for an efficient Grothuss-type proton transfer mechanism.
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Rabinovitch-Deere CA, Oliver JWK, Rodriguez GM, Atsumi S. Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering approaches to produce biofuels. Chem Rev 2013; 113:4611-32. [PMID: 23488968 DOI: 10.1021/cr300361t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Schneider S, Lüdtke S, Schröder-Tittmann K, Wechsler C, Meyer D, Tittmann K. A δ38 deletion variant of human transketolase as a model of transketolase-like protein 1 exhibits no enzymatic activity. PLoS One 2012; 7:e48321. [PMID: 23118983 PMCID: PMC3485151 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2012] [Accepted: 09/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Besides transketolase (TKT), a thiamin-dependent enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway, the human genome encodes for two closely related transketolase-like proteins, which share a high sequence identity with TKT. Transketolase-like protein 1 (TKTL1) has been implicated in cancerogenesis as its cellular expression levels were reported to directly correlate with invasion efficiency of cancer cells and patient mortality. It has been proposed that TKTL1 exerts its function by catalyzing an unusual enzymatic reaction, a hypothesis that has been the subject of recent controversy. The most striking difference between TKTL1 and TKT is a deletion of 38 consecutive amino acids in the N-terminal domain of the former, which constitute part of the active site in authentic TKT. Our structural and sequence analysis suggested that TKTL1 might not possess transketolase activity. In order to test this hypothesis in the absence of a recombinant expression system for TKTL1 and resilient data on its biochemical properties, we have engineered and biochemically characterized a “pseudo-TKTL1” Δ38 deletion variant of human TKT (TKTΔ38) as a viable model of TKTL1. Although the isolated protein is properly folded under in vitro conditions, both thermal stability as well as stability of the TKT-specific homodimeric assembly are markedly reduced. Circular dichroism and NMR spectroscopic analysis further indicates that TKTΔ38 is unable to bind the thiamin cofactor in a specific manner, even at superphysiological concentrations. No transketolase activity of TKTΔ38 can be detected for conversion of physiological sugar substrates thus arguing against an intrinsically encoded enzymatic function of TKTL1 in tumor cell metabolism.
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- Stefan Schneider
- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Department of Bioanalytics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Department of Bioanalytics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Department of Bioanalytics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Department of Bioanalytics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Department of Bioanalytics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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- Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute and Göttingen Center for Molecular Biosciences, Department of Bioanalytics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
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Patel H, Nemeria NS, Brammer LA, Freel Meyers CL, Jordan F. Observation of thiamin-bound intermediates and microscopic rate constants for their interconversion on 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase: 600-fold rate acceleration of pyruvate decarboxylation by D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate. J Am Chem Soc 2012; 134:18374-9. [PMID: 23072514 DOI: 10.1021/ja307315u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The thiamin diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzyme 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate (DXP) synthase carries out the condensation of pyruvate as a 2-hydroxyethyl donor with d-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (d-GAP) as acceptor forming DXP. Toward understanding catalysis of this potential anti-infective drug target, we examined the pathway of the enzyme using steady state and presteady state kinetic methods. It was found that DXP synthase stabilizes the ThDP-bound predecarboxylation intermediate formed between ThDP and pyruvate (C2α-lactylThDP or LThDP) in the absence of D-GAP, while addition of D-GAP enhanced the rate of decarboxylation by at least 600-fold. We postulate that decarboxylation requires formation of a ternary complex with both LThDP and D-GAP bound, and the central enzyme-bound enamine reacts with D-GAP to form DXP. This appears to be the first study of a ThDP enzyme where the individual rate constants could be evaluated by time-resolved circular dichroism spectroscopy, and the results could have relevance to other ThDP enzymes in which decarboxylation is coupled to a ligation reaction. The acceleration of the rate of decarboxylation of enzyme-bound LThDP in the presence of D-GAP suggests a new approach to inhibitor design.
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- Hetalben Patel
- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA
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Peng CS, Tokmakoff A. Identification of Lactam-Lactim Tautomers of Aromatic Heterocycles in Aqueous Solution Using 2D IR Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:3302-3306. [PMID: 23227298 PMCID: PMC3516185 DOI: 10.1021/jz301706a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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The tautomerism of aromatic heterocycles is of great interest because it directly affects their chemical properties and biological function. The tautomerism of 2-pyridone, 6-chloro-2-pyridone, and 4-pyrimidinone have been examined in D(2)O using FTIR, two-dimensional IR (2D IR) spectroscopy and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Using the 2D IR cross-peak patterns, the lactim tautomer of 6-chloro-2-pyridone was separated from the lactam tautomer, and its population was observed to increase with temperature. The equilibrium constant of [lac-tam]/[lactim] was determined to be 2.1 at room temperature for 6-chloro-2-pyridone. Similarly, the N1H and N3H lactam tautomers of 4-pyrimidinone were identified with 2D IR. To assign the vibrational modes of different tautomers, DFT calculations of these chemical species were performed with explicit water molecules, and the hydration effects on the vibrational frequencies and intensities were established.
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Nemeria N, Binshtein E, Patel H, Balakrishnan A, Vered I, Shaanan B, Barak Z, Chipman D, Jordan F. Glyoxylate carboligase: a unique thiamin diphosphate-dependent enzyme that can cycle between the 4'-aminopyrimidinium and 1',4'-iminopyrimidine tautomeric forms in the absence of the conserved glutamate. Biochemistry 2012; 51:7940-52. [PMID: 22970650 DOI: 10.1021/bi300893v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Glyoxylate carboligase (GCL) is a thiamin diphosphate (ThDP)-dependent enzyme, which catalyzes the decarboxylation of glyoxylate and ligation to a second molecule of glyoxylate to form tartronate semialdehyde (TSA). This enzyme is unique among ThDP enzymes in that it lacks a conserved glutamate near the N1' atom of ThDP (replaced by Val51) or any other potential acid-base side chains near ThDP. The V51D substitution shifts the pH optimum to 6.0-6.2 (pK(a) of 6.2) for TSA formation from pH 7.0-7.7 in wild-type GCL. This pK(a) is similar to the pK(a) of 6.1 for the 1',4'-iminopyrimidine (IP)-4'-aminopyrimidinium (APH(+)) protonic equilibrium, suggesting that the same groups control both ThDP protonation and TSA formation. The key covalent ThDP-bound intermediates were identified on V51D GCL by a combination of steady-state and stopped-flow circular dichroism methods, yielding rate constants for their formation and decomposition. It was demonstrated that active center variants with substitution at I393 could synthesize (S)-acetolactate from pyruvate solely, and acetylglycolate derived from pyruvate as the acetyl donor and glyoxylate as the acceptor, implying that this substitutent favored pyruvate as the donor in carboligase reactions. Consistent with these observations, the I393A GLC variants could stabilize the predecarboxylation intermediate analogues derived from acetylphosphinate, propionylphosphinate, and methyl acetylphosphonate in their IP tautomeric forms notwithstanding the absence of the conserved glutamate. The role of the residue at the position occupied typically by the conserved Glu controls the pH dependence of kinetic parameters, while the entire reaction sequence could be catalyzed by ThDP itself, once the APH(+) form is accessible.
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- Natalia Nemeria
- Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University , P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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Computer-assisted study on the reaction between pyruvate and ylide in the pathway leading to lactyl–ThDP. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2012; 26:977-82. [DOI: 10.1007/s10822-012-9589-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2012] [Accepted: 07/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Unexpected tautomeric equilibria of the carbanion-enamine intermediate in pyruvate oxidase highlight unrecognized chemical versatility of thiamin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:10867-72. [PMID: 22730460 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201280109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Thiamin diphosphate, the vitamin B1 coenzyme, plays critical roles in fundamental metabolic pathways that require acyl carbanion equivalents. Studies on chemical models and enzymes had suggested that these carbanions are resonance-stabilized as enamines. A crystal structure of this intermediate in pyruvate oxidase at 1.1 Å resolution now challenges this paradigm by revealing that the enamine does not accumulate. Instead, the intermediate samples between the ketone and the carbanion both interlocked in a tautomeric equilibrium. Formation of the keto tautomer is associated with a loss of aromaticity of the cofactor. The alternate confinement of electrons to neighboring atoms rather than π-conjugation seems to be of importance for the enzyme-catalyzed, redox-coupled acyl transfer to phosphate, which requires a dramatic inversion of polarity of the reacting substrate carbon in two subsequent catalytic steps. The ability to oscillate between a nucleophilic (carbanion) and an electrophilic (ketone) substrate center highlights a hitherto unrecognized versatility of the thiamin cofactor. It remains to be studied whether formation of the keto tautomer is a general feature of all thiamin enzymes, as it could provide for stable storage of the carbanion state, or whether this feature represents a specific trait of thiamin oxidases. In addition, the protonation state of the two-electron reduced flavin cofactor can be fully assigned, demonstrating the power of high-resolution cryocrystallography for elucidation of enzymatic mechanisms.
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