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Quelhas D, Carneiro J, Lopes-Marques M, Jaeken J, Martins E, Rocha JF, Teixeira Carla SS, Ferreira CR, Sousa SF, Azevedo L. Assessing the effects of PMM2 variants on protein stability. Mol Genet Metab 2021; 134:344-352. [PMID: 34863624 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2021.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2021] [Revised: 10/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Phosphomannomutase 2 deficiency, PMM2-CDG, is the most frequent disorder of protein N-glycosylation. It is an autosomal recessive disease with a broad clinical and biochemical phenotype. Trying to predict the impact of novel variants is often a challenge due to the high number of variants and the difficulty to establish solid genotype-phenotype correlations. A potential useful strategy is to use computational chemistry calculations as a tool from which relevant information on the structural impact of novel variants may be deduced. Here we present our analyses based on four well-known PMM2 deleterious variants (p.(Leu32Arg), p.(Asp65Tyr), p.(Phe119Leu), p.(Arg141His)) and the polymorphic p.(Glu197Ala) for which we have predicted the effect on protein stability. Our work predicts the effect of different amino acid residues on the conformation and stability of PMM2. These computational simulations are, therefore, an extremely useful methodology which, in combination with routinely used in silico methods of pathogenicity prediction, may help to reveal the structural impact of novel variants at the protein level, potentially leading to a better understanding of target biological molecules.
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- D Quelhas
- Unidade de Bioquímica Genética, Centro de Genética Médica, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal; Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine, ICBAS, UP, Porto, Portugal; Centro Referência Doenças Hereditárias do Metabolismo, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
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- CIIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Matosinhos, Portugal
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- i3S- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal; IPATIMUP-Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; FCUP-Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Center for Metabolic Diseases, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine, ICBAS, UP, Porto, Portugal; Centro Referência Doenças Hereditárias do Metabolismo, Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal; UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, BioSIM - Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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- Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal; UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, BioSIM - Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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- Skeletal Genomics Unit, Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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- Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal; UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, BioSIM - Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
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- i3S- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal; IPATIMUP-Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; FCUP-Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Citro V, Cimmaruta C, Liguori L, Viscido G, Cubellis MV, Andreotti G. A mutant of phosphomannomutase1 retains full enzymatic activity, but is not activated by IMP: Possible implications for the disease PMM2-CDG. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0189629. [PMID: 29261720 PMCID: PMC5736207 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 11/29/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The most frequent disorder of glycosylation, PMM2-CDG, is caused by a deficiency of phosphomannomutase activity. In humans two paralogous enzymes exist, both of them require mannose 1,6-bis-phosphate or glucose 1,6-bis-phosphate as activators, but only phospho-mannomutase1 hydrolyzes bis-phosphate hexoses. Mutations in the gene encoding phosphomannomutase2 are responsible for PMM2-CDG. Although not directly causative of the disease, the role of the paralogous enzyme in the disease should be clarified. Phosphomannomutase1 could have a beneficial effect, contributing to mannose 6-phosphate isomerization, or a detrimental effect, hydrolyzing the bis-phosphate hexose activator. A pivotal role in regulating mannose-1phosphate production and ultimately protein glycosylation might be played by inosine monophosphate that enhances the phosphatase activity of phosphomannomutase1. In this paper we analyzed human phosphomannomutases by conventional enzymatic assays as well as by novel techniques such as 31P-NMR and thermal shift assay. We characterized a triple mutant of phospomannomutase1 that retains mutase and phosphatase activity, but is unable to bind inosine monophosphate.
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- Valentina Citro
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare–CNR, Pozzuoli, Italy
- Dipartimento di scienze e tecnologie ambientali, biologiche e farmaceutiche, Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Caserta, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy
- Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare–CNR, Pozzuoli, Italy
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Xu J, Lee Y, Beamer LJ, Van Doren SR. Phosphorylation in the catalytic cleft stabilizes and attracts domains of a phosphohexomutase. Biophys J 2015; 108:325-37. [PMID: 25606681 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2014] [Revised: 11/22/2014] [Accepted: 12/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Phosphorylation can modulate the activities of enzymes. The phosphoryl donor in the catalytic cleft of α-D-phosphohexomutases is transiently dephosphorylated while the reaction intermediate completes a 180° reorientation within the cleft. The phosphorylated form of 52 kDa bacterial phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase is less accessible to dye or protease, more stable to chemical denaturation, and widely stabilized against NMR-detected hydrogen exchange across the core of domain 3 to juxtaposed domain 4 (each by ≥ 1.3 kcal/mol) and parts of domains 1 and 2. However, phosphorylation accelerates hydrogen exchange in specific regions of domains 1 and 2, including a metal-binding residue in the active site. Electrostatic field lines reveal attraction across the catalytic cleft between phosphorylated Ser-108 and domain 4, but repulsion when Ser-108 is dephosphorylated. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulated the dephosphorylated form to be expanded due to enhanced rotational freedom of domain 4. The contacts and fluctuations of the MD trajectories enabled correct simulation of more than 80% of sites that undergo either protection or deprotection from hydrogen exchange due to phosphorylation. Electrostatic attraction in the phosphorylated enzyme accounts for 1) domain 4 drawing closer to domains 1 and 3; 2) decreased accessibility; and 3) increased stability within these domains. The electrostriction due to phosphorylation may help capture substrate, whereas the opening of the cleft upon transient dephosphorylation allows rotation of the intermediate. The long-range effects of phosphorylation on hydrogen exchange parallel reports on protein kinases, suggesting a conceptual link among these multidomain, phosphoryl transfer enzymes.
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- Jia Xu
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
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Wei Y, Marcink TC, Xu J, Sirianni AG, Sarma AVS, Prior SH, Beamer LJ, Van Doren SR. Chemical shift assignments of domain 4 from the phosphohexomutase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa suggest that freeing perturbs its coevolved domain interface. Biomol NMR Assign 2014; 8:329-333. [PMID: 23893395 PMCID: PMC3905050 DOI: 10.1007/s12104-013-9511-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2013] [Accepted: 07/18/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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A domain needed for the catalytic efficiency of an enzyme model of simple processivity and domain-domain interactions has been characterized by NMR. This domain 4 from phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) closes upon glucose phosphate and mannose phosphate ligands in the active site, and can modestly reconstitute activity of enzyme truncated to domains 1-3. This enzyme supports biosynthesis of the saccharide-derived virulence factors (rhamnolipids, lipopolysaccharides, and alginate) of the opportunistic bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (1)H, (13)C, and (15)N NMR chemical shift assignments of domain 4 of PMM/PGM suggest preservation and independence of its structure when separated from domains 1-3. The face of domain 4 that packs with domain 3 is perturbed in NMR spectra without disrupting this fold. The perturbed residues overlap both the most highly coevolved positions in the interface and residues lining a cavity at the domain interface.
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Lee Y, Mick J, Furdui C, Beamer LJ. A coevolutionary residue network at the site of a functionally important conformational change in a phosphohexomutase enzyme family. PLoS One 2012; 7:e38114. [PMID: 22685552 PMCID: PMC3369874 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2012] [Accepted: 05/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Coevolution analyses identify residues that co-vary with each other during evolution, revealing sequence relationships unobservable from traditional multiple sequence alignments. Here we describe a coevolutionary analysis of phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM), a widespread and diverse enzyme family involved in carbohydrate biosynthesis. Mutual information and graph theory were utilized to identify a network of highly connected residues with high significance. An examination of the most tightly connected regions of the coevolutionary network reveals that most of the involved residues are localized near an interdomain interface of this enzyme, known to be the site of a functionally important conformational change. The roles of four interface residues found in this network were examined via site-directed mutagenesis and kinetic characterization. For three of these residues, mutation to alanine reduces enzyme specificity to ∼10% or less of wild-type, while the other has ∼45% activity of wild-type enzyme. An additional mutant of an interface residue that is not densely connected in the coevolutionary network was also characterized, and shows no change in activity relative to wild-type enzyme. The results of these studies are interpreted in the context of structural and functional data on PMM/PGM. Together, they demonstrate that a network of coevolving residues links the highly conserved active site with the interdomain conformational change necessary for the multi-step catalytic reaction. This work adds to our understanding of the functional roles of coevolving residue networks, and has implications for the definition of catalytically important residues.
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- Yingying Lee
- Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University Health Sciences Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Baxter NJ, Blackburn GM, Marston JP, Hounslow AM, Cliff MJ, Bermel W, Williams NH, Hollfelder F, Wemmer DE, Waltho JP. Anionic charge is prioritized over geometry in aluminum and magnesium fluoride transition state analogs of phosphoryl transfer enzymes. J Am Chem Soc 2008; 130:3952-8. [PMID: 18318536 DOI: 10.1021/ja078000n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Phosphoryl transfer reactions are ubiquitous in biology and metal fluoride complexes have played a central role in structural approaches to understanding how they are catalyzed. In particular, numerous structures of AlFx-containing complexes have been reported to be transition state analogs (TSAs). A survey of nucleotide kinases has proposed a correlation between the pH of the crystallization solution and the number of coordinated fluorides in the resulting aluminum fluoride TSA complexes formed. Enzyme ligands crystallized above pH 7.0 were attributed to AlF3, whereas those crystallized at or below pH 7.0 were assigned as AlF4-. We use 19F NMR to show that for beta-phosphoglucomutase from Lactococcus lactis, the pH-switch in fluoride coordination does not derive from an AlF4- moiety converting into AlF3. Instead, AlF4- is progressively replaced by MgF3- as the pH increases. Hence, the enzyme prioritizes anionic charge at the expense of preferred native trigonal geometry over a very broad range of pH. We demonstrate similar behavior for two phosphate transfer enzymes that represent typical biological phosphate transfer catalysts: an amino acid phosphatase, phosphoserine phosphatase from Methanococcus jannaschii and a nucleotide kinase, phosphoglycerate kinase from Geobacillus stearothermophilus. Finally, we establish that at near-physiological ratios of aluminum to magnesium, aluminum can dominate over magnesium in the enzyme-metal fluoride inhibitory TSA complexes, and hence is the more likely origin of some of the physiological effects of fluoride.
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- Nicola J Baxter
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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Qian W, Yu C, Qin H, Liu X, Zhang A, Johansen IE, Wang D. Molecular and functional analysis of phosphomannomutase (PMM) from higher plants and genetic evidence for the involvement of PMM in ascorbic acid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant J 2007; 49:399-413. [PMID: 17217471 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2006.02967.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Phosphomannomutase (PMM) catalyzes the interconversion of mannose-6-phosphate and mannose-1-phosphate. However, systematic molecular and functional investigations on PMM from higher plants have hitherto not been reported. In this work, PMM cDNAs were isolated from Arabidopsis, Nicotiana benthamiana, soybean, tomato, rice and wheat. Amino acid sequence comparisons indicated that plant PMM proteins exhibited significant identity to their fungal and mammalian orthologs. In line with the similarity in primary structure, plant PMM complemented the sec53-6 temperature sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Histidine-tagged Arabidopsis PMM (AtPMM) purified from Escherichia coli converted mannose-1-phosphate into mannose-6-phosphate and glucose-1-phosphate into glucose-6-phosphate, with the former reaction being more efficient than the latter one. In Arabidopsis and N. benthamiana, PMM was constitutively expressed in both vegetative and reproductive organs. Reducing the PMM expression level through virus-induced gene silencing caused a substantial decrease in ascorbic acid (AsA) content in N. benthamiana leaves. Conversely, raising the PMM expression level in N. benthamiana using viral-vector-mediated ectopic expression led to a 20-50% increase in AsA content. Consistent with this finding, transgenic expression of an AtPMM-GFP fusion protein in Arabidopsis also increased AsA content by 25-33%. Collectively, this study improves our understanding on the molecular and functional properties of plant PMM and provides genetic evidence on the involvement of PMM in the biosynthesis of AsA in Arabidopsis and N. benthamiana plants.
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- Weiqiang Qian
- The State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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Shankar S, Ye RW, Schlictman D, Chakrabarty AM. Exopolysaccharide alginate synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: enzymology and regulation of gene expression. Adv Enzymol Relat Areas Mol Biol 2006; 70:221-55. [PMID: 8638483 DOI: 10.1002/9780470123164.ch4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- S Shankar
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago, USA
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Chen CCH, Han Y, Niu W, Kulakova AN, Howard A, Quinn JP, Dunaway-Mariano D, Herzberg O. Structure and kinetics of phosphonopyruvate hydrolase from Variovorax sp. Pal2: new insight into the divergence of catalysis within the PEP mutase/isocitrate lyase superfamily. Biochemistry 2006; 45:11491-504. [PMID: 16981709 DOI: 10.1021/bi061208l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Phosphonopyruvate (P-pyr) hydrolase (PPH), a member of the phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) mutase/isocitrate lyase (PEPM/ICL) superfamily, hydrolyzes P-pyr and shares the highest sequence identity and functional similarity with PEPM. Recombinant PPH from Variovorax sp. Pal2 was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified to homogeneity. Analytical gel filtration indicated that the protein exists in solution predominantly as a tetramer. The PPH pH rate profile indicates maximal activity over a broad pH range. The steady-state kinetic constants determined for a rapid equilibrium ordered kinetic mechanism with Mg2+ binding first (Kd = 140 +/- 40 microM), are kcat = 105 +/- 2 s(-1) and P-pyr Km = 5 +/- 1 microM. PEP (slow substrate kcat = 2 x 10(-4) s(-1)), oxalate, and sulfopyruvate are competitive inhibitors with Ki values of 2.0 +/- 0.1 mM, 17 +/- 1 microM, and 210 +/- 10 microM, respectively. Three PPH crystal structures have been determined, that of a ligand-free enzyme, the enzyme bound to Mg2+ and oxalate (inhibitor), and the enzyme bound to Mg2+ and P-pyr (substrate). The complex with the inhibitor was obtained by cocrystallization, whereas that with the substrate was obtained by briefly soaking crystals of the ligand-free enzyme with P-pyr prior to flash cooling. The PPH structure resembles that of the other members of the PEPM/ICL superfamily and is most similar to the functionally related enzyme, PEPM. Each monomer of the dimer of dimers exhibits an (alpha/beta)8 barrel fold with the eighth helix swapped between two molecules of the dimer. Both P-pyr and oxalate are anchored to the active site by Mg2+. The loop capping the active site is disordered in all three structures, in contrast to PEPM, where the equivalent loop adopts an open or disordered conformation in the unbound state but sequesters the inhibitor from solvent in the bound state. Crystal packing may have favored the open conformation of PPH even when the enzyme was cocrystallized with the oxalate inhibitor. Structure alignment of PPH with other superfamily members revealed two pairs of invariant or conservatively replaced residues that anchor the flexible gating loop. The proposed PPH catalytic mechanism is analogous to that of PEPM but includes activation of a water nucleophile with the loop Thr118 residue.
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- Celia C H Chen
- Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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Kedzierski L, Malby RL, Smith BJ, Perugini MA, Hodder AN, Ilg T, Colman PM, Handman E. Structure of Leishmania mexicana Phosphomannomutase Highlights Similarities with Human Isoforms. J Mol Biol 2006; 363:215-27. [PMID: 16963079 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2006.08.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2006] [Revised: 08/04/2006] [Accepted: 08/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Phosphomannomutase (PMM) catalyses the conversion of mannose-6-phosphate to mannose-1-phosphate, an essential step in mannose activation and the biosynthesis of glycoconjugates in all eukaryotes. Deletion of PMM from Leishmania mexicana results in loss of virulence, suggesting that PMM is a promising drug target for the development of anti-leishmanial inhibitors. We report the crystallization and structure determination to 2.1 A of L. mexicana PMM alone and in complex with glucose-1,6-bisphosphate to 2.9 A. PMM is a member of the haloacid dehalogenase (HAD) family, but has a novel dimeric structure and a distinct cap domain of unique topology. Although the structure is novel within the HAD family, the leishmanial enzyme shows a high degree of similarity with its human isoforms. We have generated L. major PMM knockouts, which are avirulent. We expressed the human pmm2 gene in the Leishmania PMM knockout, but despite the similarity between Leishmania and human PMM, expression of the human gene did not restore virulence. Similarities in the structure of the parasite enzyme and its human isoforms suggest that the development of parasite-selective inhibitors will not be an easy task.
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- Lukasz Kedzierski
- Infection and Immunity Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia
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Regni C, Shackelford GS, Beamer LJ. Complexes of the enzyme phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase with a slow substrate and an inhibitor. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2006; 62:722-6. [PMID: 16880541 PMCID: PMC2242917 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309106025887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2006] [Accepted: 07/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Two complexes of the enzyme phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa with a slow substrate and with an inhibitor have been characterized by X-ray crystallography. Both ligands induce an interdomain rearrangement in the enzyme that creates a highly buried active site. Comparisons with enzyme-substrate complexes show that the inhibitor xylose 1-phosphate utilizes many of the previously observed enzyme-ligand interactions. In contrast, analysis of the ribose 1-phosphate complex reveals a combination of new and conserved enzyme-ligand interactions for binding. The ability of PMM/PGM to accommodate these two pentose phosphosugars in its active site may be relevant for future efforts towards inhibitor design.
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- Catherine Regni
- Department of Structural Biology, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 332 North Lauderdale M/S 311, Memphis, TN 38105, USA
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- Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, 1700 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, 117 Schweitzer Hall, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Dai J, Wang L, Allen KN, Radstrom P, Dunaway-Mariano D. Conformational Cycling in β-Phosphoglucomutase Catalysis: Reorientation of the β-d-Glucose 1,6-(Bis)phosphate Intermediate. Biochemistry 2006; 45:7818-24. [PMID: 16784233 DOI: 10.1021/bi060136v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Activated Lactococcus lactis beta-phosphoglucomutase (betaPGM) catalyzes the conversion of beta-d-glucose 1-phosphate (betaG1P) derived from maltose to beta-d-glucose 6-phosphate (G6P). Activation requires Mg(2+) binding and phosphorylation of the active site residue Asp8. Initial velocity techniques were used to define the steady-state kinetic constants k(cat) = 177 +/- 9 s(-)(1), K(m) = 49 +/- 4 microM for the substrate betaG1P and K(m) = 6.5 +/- 0.7 microM for the activator beta-d-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate (betaG1,6bisP). The observed transient accumulation of [(14)C]betaG1,6bisP (12% at approximately 0.1 s) in the single turnover reaction carried out with excess betaPGM (40 microM) and limiting [(14)C]betaG1P (5 microM) and betaG1,6bisP (5 microM) supported the role of betaG1,6bisP as a reaction intermediate in the conversion of the betaG1P to G6P. Single turnover reactions of [(14)C]betaG1,6bisP with excess betaPGM were carried out to demonstrate that phosphoryl transfer rather than ligand binding is rate-limiting and to show that the betaG1,6bisP binds to the active site in two different orientations (one positioning the C(1)phosphoryl group for reaction with Asp8, and the other orientation positioning the C(6)phosphoryl group for reaction with Asp8) with roughly the same efficiency. Single turnover reactions carried out with betaPGM, [(14)C]betaG1P, and unlabeled betaG1,6bisP demonstrated complete exchange of label to the betaG1,6bisP during the catalytic cycle. Thus, the reorientation of the betaG1,6bisP intermediate that is required to complete the catalytic cycle occurs by diffusion into solvent followed by binding in the opposite orientation. Published X-ray structures of betaG1P suggest that the reorientation and phosphoryl transfer from betaG1,6bisP occur by conformational cycling of the enzyme between the active site open and closed forms via cap domain movement. Last, the equilibrium ratio of betaG1,6bisP to betaG1P plus G6P was examined to evidence a significant stabilization of betaPGM aspartyl phosphate.
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- Jianying Dai
- Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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The enzyme phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa catalyzes the reversible conversion of 1-phospho to 6-phospho-sugars. The reaction entails two phosphoryl transfers, with an intervening 180 degrees reorientation of the reaction intermediate (e.g. glucose 1,6-bisphosphate) during catalysis. Reorientation of the intermediate occurs without dissociation from the active site of the enzyme and is, thus, a simple example of processivity, as defined by multiple rounds of catalysis without release of substrate. Structural characterization of two PMM/PGM-intermediate complexes with glucose 1,6-bisphosphate provides new insights into the reaction catalyzed by the enzyme, including the reorientation of the intermediate. Kinetic analyses of site-directed mutants prompted by the structural studies reveal active site residues critical for maintaining association with glucose 1,6-bisphosphate during its unique dynamic reorientation in the active site of PMM/PGM.
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- Catherine Regni
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Silvaggi NR, Zhang C, Lu Z, Dai J, Dunaway-Mariano D, Allen KN. The X-ray Crystal Structures of Human α-Phosphomannomutase 1 Reveal the Structural Basis of Congenital Disorder of Glycosylation Type 1a. J Biol Chem 2006; 281:14918-26. [PMID: 16540464 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m601505200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1a (CDG-1a) is a congenital disease characterized by severe defects in nervous system development. It is caused by mutations in alpha-phosphomannomutase (of which there are two isozymes, alpha-PMM1 and alpha-PPM2). Here we report the x-ray crystal structures of human alpha-PMM1 in the open conformation, with and without the bound substrate, alpha-D-mannose 1-phosphate. Alpha-PMM1, like most haloalkanoic acid dehalogenase superfamily (HADSF) members, consists of two domains, the cap and core, which open to bind substrate and then close to provide a solvent-exclusive environment for catalysis. The substrate phosphate group is observed at a positively charged site of the cap domain, rather than at the core domain phosphoryl-transfer site defined by the Asp(19) nucleophile and Mg(2+) cofactor. This suggests that substrate binds first to the cap and then is swept into the active site upon cap closure. The orientation of the acid/base residue Asp(21) suggests that alpha-phosphomannomutase (alpha-PMM) uses a different method of protecting the aspartylphosphate from hydrolysis than the HADSF member beta-phosphoglucomutase. It is hypothesized that the electrostatic repulsion of positive charges at the interface of the cap and core domains stabilizes alpha-PMM1 in the open conformation and that the negatively charged substrate binds to the cap, thereby facilitating its closure over the core domain. The two isozymes, alpha-PMM1 and alpha-PMM2, are shown to have a conserved active-site structure and to display similar kinetic properties. Analysis of the known mutation sites in the context of the structures reveals the genotype-phenotype relationship underlying CDG-1a.
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- Nicholas R Silvaggi
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, 715 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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Nishitani Y, Maruyama D, Nonaka T, Kita A, Fukami TA, Mio T, Yamada-Okabe H, Yamada-Okabe T, Miki K. Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction studies of N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate mutase from Candida albicans. Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun 2006; 62:419-21. [PMID: 16582501 PMCID: PMC2222579 DOI: 10.1107/s1744309106010177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2006] [Accepted: 03/20/2006] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate mutase (AGM1) is an essential enzyme in the synthesis of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-GlcNAc) in eukaryotes and belongs to the alpha-D-phosphohexomutase superfamily. AGM1 from Candida albicans (CaAGM1) was purified and crystallized by the sitting-drop vapour-diffusion method. The crystals obtained belong to the primitive monoclinic space group P2(1), with unit-cell parameters a = 60.2, b = 130.2, c = 78.0 angstroms, beta = 106.7 degrees. The crystals diffract X-rays to beyond 1.8 angstroms resolution using synchrotron radiation.
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- Yuichi Nishitani
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Kamakura Research Laboratory, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, 200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247-8530, Japan
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- Kamakura Research Laboratory, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, 200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247-8530, Japan
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- Kamakura Research Laboratory, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd, 200 Kajiwara, Kamakura, Kanagawa 247-8530, Japan
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- Department of Hygiene, School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- RIKEN SPring-8 Center at Harima Institute, Koto 1-1-1, Mikazukicho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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Akutsu JI, Zhang Z, Tsujimura M, Sasaki M, Yohda M, Kawarabayasi Y. Characterization of a Thermostable Enzyme with Phosphomannomutase/Phosphoglucomutase Activities from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 138:159-66. [PMID: 16091590 DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvi115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) enzyme catalyzes reversibly the intra-molecular phosphoryl interconverting reaction of mannose-6-phosphate and mannose-1-phosphate or glucose-6-phosphate and glucose-1-phosphate. Glucose-6-phosphate and glucose-1-phosphate are known to be utilized for energy metabolism and cell surface construction, respectively. PMM/PGM has been isolated from many microorganisms. By performing similarity searches using existing PMM/PGM sequences, the homologous ORFs PH0923 and PH1210 were identified from the genomic data of Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3. Since PH0923 appears to be part of an operon consisting of four carbohydrate metabolic enzymes, PH0923 was selected as the first target for the investigation of PMM/PGM activity in P. horikoshii OT3. The coding region of PH0923 was cloned and the purified recombinant protein was utilized for an examination of its biochemical properties. The enzyme retained half its initial activity after treatment at 95 degrees C for 90 min. Detailed analyses of activities showed that this protein is capable of utilizing a variety of metal ions that are not utilized by previously characterized PMM/PGM proteins. A mutated protein with an alanine residue replacing the active site serine residue indicated that this residue plays an important but non-essential role in PMM/PGM activity.
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- Jun-ichi Akutsu
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
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The interconversion of glucose 1-phosphate and glucose 6-phosphate, catalyzed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase, has been studied by transient-state kinetic techniques. Glucose 1,6-bisphosphate is formed as an intermediate in the reaction, but an obligatory step in the catalytic cycle appears to be the formation of an enzyme-glucose 1,6-bisphosphate complex that is not competent to form either glucose 1-phosphate or glucose 6-phosphate directly. We suggest that during the lifetime of this complex the glucose 1,6-bisphosphate intermediate undergoes the 180 degrees reorientation that is required for completion of the catalytic cycle. The formation of glucose 1,6-bisphosphate from glucose 1-phosphate is in rapid equilibrium relative to the rest of the reaction, where K(eq) = 0.14. In the opposite direction, glucose 1,6-bisphosphate is formed from glucose 6-phosphate with a rate constant of 12 s(-)(1), and the reverse step occurs with a rate constant of 255 s(-)(1). The interconversion of the productive and nonproductive glucose 1,6-bisphosphate complexes occurs with a rate constant of 64 s(-)(1) in one direction and 48 s(-)(1) in the other direction. Glucose 1,6-bisphosphate remains associated with the enzyme during reorientation. Isotope trapping studies indicate that it partitions to form glucose 1-phosphate or glucose 6-phosphate 14.3 times more frequently than it dissociates from the enzyme.
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- Laura E Naught
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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The coordination tendencies of phosphorus to form a hexacoordinated state from a pentacoordinated state, which might assist in describing the mechanistic action of phosphoryl transfer enzymes, are delineated. The factors discussed include substrate and transition or intermediate state anionicity, hydrogen bonding, packing effects, that is, van der Waals forces, the ease of formation of hexacoordinate phosphorus from lower coordinate states, and the pseudorotation problem common to nonrigid pentacoordinate phosphorus. In view of the work reported in this Account and recent work on enzyme promiscuity and moonlighting activities, it is suggested that donor action should play a role in determining active site interactions in phosphoryl transfer enzyme mechanisms.
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- Robert R Holmes
- Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9336, USA
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Previous work has indicated that PEP mutase catalyzes the rearrangement of phosphoenolpyruvate to phosphonopyruvate by a dissociative mechanism. The crystal structure of the mutase with Mg(II) and sulfopyruvate (a phosphonopyruvate analogue) bound showed that the substrate is anchored to the active site by the Mg(II), and shielded from solvent by a large loop (residues 115-133). Here, the crystal structures of wild-type and D58A mutases, in the apo state and in complex with Mg(II), are reported. In both unbound and Mg(II)-bound states, the active site is accessible to the solvent. The loop (residues 115-133), which in the enzyme-inhibitor complexes covers the active site cavity, is partially disordered or adopts a conformation that allows access to the cavity. In the apo state, the residues associated with Mg(II) binding are poised to accept the metal ion. When Mg(II) binds, the coordination is the same as that previously observed in the enzyme-Mg(II) sulfopyruvate complex, except that the coordination positions occupied by two ligand oxygen atoms are occupied by two water molecules. When the loop opens, three key active site residues are displaced from the active site, Lys120, Asn122, and Leu124. Lys120 mediates Mg(II) coordination. Asn122 and Leu124 surround the transferring phosphoryl group, and thus prevent substrate hydrolysis. Amino acid replacement of any one of these three loop residues results in a significant loss of catalytic activity. It is hypothesized that the loop serves to gate the mutase active site, interconverting between an open conformation that allows substrate binding and product release and a closed conformation that separates the reaction site from the solvent during catalysis.
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- Sijiu Liu
- Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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Phosphonoacetaldehyde (Pald) is formed in a variety of biosynthetic pathways leading to natural phosphonates and is an intermediate in the degradation pathway of the natural product 2-aminoethylphosphonate. To facilitate the investigation of the enzymes catalyzing these pathways, a method for the synthesis of radiolabeled Pald was developed. The enzyme pyruvate phosphate dikinase was used to prepare phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) from pyruvate, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and orthophosphate. Then PEP was converted to phosphonopyruvate (Ppyr) with PEP mutase and then to Pald with Ppyr decarboxylase. By using [beta-32P]ATP or [2-14C]pyruvate as precursor, [32P]Pald or [1-14C]Pald was obtained, respectively. The utilization of the synthetic, radiolabeled Pald as a probe of enzyme mechanism was demonstrated with the enzyme phosphonoacetaldehyde hydrolase (trivial name phosphonatase). The single turnover time course for the formation and consumption of radiolabeled covalent enzyme species evidenced a kinetically competent covalent intermediate.
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- Guofeng Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA
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The alpha-D-phosphohexomutase superfamily is composed of four related enzymes that catalyze a reversible, intramolecular phosphoryl transfer on their sugar substrates. The enzymes in this superfamily play important and diverse roles in carbohydrate metabolism in organisms from bacteria to humans. Recent structural and mechanistic studies of one member of this superfamily, phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, have provided new insights into enzyme mechanism and substrate recognition. Here we use sequence-sequence and sequence-structure comparisons via evolutionary trace analysis to examine 71 members of the alpha-D-phosphohexomutase superfamily. These analyses show that key residues in the active site, including many of those involved in substrate contacts in the P. aeruginosa PMM/PGM complexes, are conserved throughout the enzyme family. Several important regions show class-specific differences in sequence that appear to be correlated with differences in substrate specificity exhibited by subgroups of the family. In addition, we describe the translocation of a 20-residue segment containing the catalytic phosphoserine of phosphoacetylglucosamine mutase, which uniquely identifies members of this subgroup.
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- Grant S Shackelford
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Liu HY, Wang Z, Regni C, Zou X, Tipton PA. Detailed Kinetic Studies of an Aggregating Inhibitor; Inhibition of Phosphomannomutase/Phosphoglucomutase by Disperse Blue 56†. Biochemistry 2004; 43:8662-9. [PMID: 15236574 DOI: 10.1021/bi0491907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase occupies a central position in the pathways by which several virulence factors are synthesized in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Virtual screening was used to identify potential inhibitors of phosphomannomutase/ phosphoglucomutase, and one compound, the anthraquinone-based dye Disperse Blue 56, showed potent inhibition in vitro. The kinetics of inhibition was complex; the time courses for reactions in the presence of the inhibitor were biphasic, suggestive of slow-binding inhibition. Quantitative analysis of the progress curves and preincubation experiments demonstrated that slow-binding inhibition was not occurring, however. Initial velocity kinetic studies indicated that Disperse Blue 56 was a parabolic, noncompetitve inhibitor. Progress curves for reactions in the presence of Disperse Blue 56 could be fitted very well by a model in which 2 equiv of the inhibitor bound to free enzyme or the enzyme-substrate complex. The inhibition was largely relieved by the inclusion of 0.01% Triton X-100 in the assay solutions, which has been suggested to be the hallmark for inhibition by compounds that exert their effect through aggregates [McGovern, S. L., Caselli, E., Grigorieff, N., and Shiochet, B. K. (2002) J. Med. Chem. 45, 1712-1722]. Our kinetic data appear to be consistent with either inhibition by a dimer of Disperse Blue 56 or inhibition by a Disperse Blue 56 aggregate, but the latter appears much more likely. We present a detailed analysis of the system to provide further information that may help in the recognition of inhibition through aggregation.
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- Hao-Yang Liu
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Enzyme-substrate complexes of phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) reveal the structural basis of the enzyme's ability to use four different substrates in catalysis. High-resolution structures with glucose 1-phosphate, glucose 6-phosphate, mannose 1-phosphate, and mannose 6-phosphate show that the position of the phosphate group of each substrate is held constant by a conserved network of hydrogen bonds. This produces two distinct, and mutually exclusive, binding orientations for the sugar rings of the 1-phospho and 6-phospho sugars. Specific binding of both orientations is accomplished by key contacts with the O3 and O4 hydroxyls of the sugar, which must occupy equatorial positions. Dual recognition of glucose and mannose phosphosugars uses a combination of specific protein contacts and nonspecific solvent contacts. The ability of PMM/PGM to accommodate these four diverse substrates in a single active site is consistent with its highly reversible phosphoryl transfer reaction and allows it to function in multiple biosynthetic pathways in P. aeruginosa.
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- Catherine Regni
- Department of Biochemistry, 117 Schweitzer Hall, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Schmitzberger F, Smith AG, Abell C, Blundell TL. Comparative analysis of the Escherichia coli ketopantoate hydroxymethyltransferase crystal structure confirms that it is a member of the (betaalpha)8 phosphoenolpyruvate/pyruvate superfamily. J Bacteriol 2003; 185:4163-71. [PMID: 12837791 PMCID: PMC164873 DOI: 10.1128/jb.185.14.4163-4171.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2003] [Accepted: 04/18/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli ketopantoate hydroxymethyltransferase (KPHMT) catalyzes the first step in the biosynthesis pathway of pantothenate (vitamin B(5)), the transfer of a hydroxymethyl group onto alpha-ketoisovalerate. Here we describe a detailed comparative analysis of the KPHMT crystal structure and the identification of structural homologues, some of which have remarkable similarities in their active sites, modes of binding to substrates, and mechanisms. We show that KPHMT forms a family within the phosphoenolpyruvate/pyruvate superfamily. Based on the analysis, we propose that in this superfamily there should be a subdivision into two groups. This paper completes our structural analysis of the E. coli enzymes in the pantothenate pathway.
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- Florian Schmitzberger
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, United Kingdom
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Sarkar M, Hamilton CJ, Fairlamb AH. Properties of phosphoenolpyruvate mutase, the first enzyme in the aminoethylphosphonate biosynthetic pathway in Trypanosoma cruzi. J Biol Chem 2003; 278:22703-8. [PMID: 12672809 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m302419200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) mutase catalyzes the conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate to phosphonopyruvate, the initial step in the formation of many naturally occurring phosphonate compounds. The phosphonate compound 2-aminoethylphosphonate is present as a component of complex carbohydrates on the surface membrane of many trypanosomatids including glycosylinositolphospholipids of Trypanosoma cruzi. Using partial sequence information from the T. cruzi genome project we have isolated a full-length gene with significant homology to PEP mutase from the free-living protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis and the edible mussel Mytilus edulis. Recombinant expression in Escherichia coli confirms that it encodes a functional PEP mutase with a Km apparent of 8 microM for phosphonopyruvate and a kcat of 12 s-1. The native enzyme is a homotetramer with an absolute requirement for divalent metal ions and displays negative cooperativity for Mg2+ (S0.5 0.4 microM; n = 0.46). Immunofluorescence and sub-cellular fractionation indicates that PEP mutase has a dual localization in the cell. Further evidence to support this was obtained by Western analysis of a partial sub-cellular fractionation of T. cruzi cells. Southern and Western analysis suggests that PEP mutase is unique to T. cruzi and is not present in the other medically important parasites, Trypanosoma brucei and Leishmania spp.
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- Mitali Sarkar
- Division of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Microbiology, The Wellcome Trust Biocentre, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Li Y, Ogata Y, Freeze HH, Scott CR, Turecek F, Gelb MH. Affinity capture and elution/electrospray ionization mass spectrometry assay of phosphomannomutase and phosphomannose isomerase for the multiplex analysis of congenital disorders of glycosylation types Ia and Ib. Anal Chem 2003; 75:42-8. [PMID: 12530817 DOI: 10.1021/ac0205053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We report a new application of affinity capture-elution electrospray mass spectrometry (ACESI-MS) to assay the enzymes phosphomannomutase (PMM) and phosphomannose isomerase (PMI), which when deficient cause congenital disorders of glycosylation CDG-type Ia and type Ib, respectively. The novel feature of this mass-spectrometry-based assay is that it allows one to distinguish and quantify enzymatic products that are isomeric with their substrates that are present simultaneously in complex mixtures, such as cultured human cell homogenates. This is achieved by coupled assays in which the PMM and PMI primary products are in vitro subjected to another enzymatic reaction with yeast transketolase that changes the mass of the products to be detected by mass spectrometry. The affinity purification procedure is fully automated, and the mass spectrometric analysis is multiplexed in a fashion that is suitable for high-throughput applications.
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- Yijun Li
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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Liu S, Lu Z, Jia Y, Dunaway-Mariano D, Herzberg O. Dissociative phosphoryl transfer in PEP mutase catalysis: structure of the enzyme/sulfopyruvate complex and kinetic properties of mutants. Biochemistry 2002; 41:10270-6. [PMID: 12162742 DOI: 10.1021/bi026024v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The crystal structure of PEP mutase from Mytilus edulis in complex with a substrate-analogue inhibitor, sulfopyruvate S-pyr (K(i) = 22 microM), has been determined at 2.25 A resolution. Mg(II)-S-pyr binds in the alpha/beta barrel's central channel, at the C-termini of the beta-strands. The binding mode of S-pyr's pyruvyl moiety resembles the binding mode of oxalate seen earlier. The location of the sulfo group of S-pyr is postulated to mimic the phosphonyl group of the product phosphonopyruvate (P-pyr). This sulfo group interacts with the guanidinium group of Arg159, but it is not aligned for nucleopilic attack by neighboring basic amino side chains. Kinetic analysis of site directed mutants, probing the key active site residues Asp58, Arg159, Asn122, and His190 correlate well with the structural information. The results presented here rule out a phosphoryl transfer mechanism involving a double displacement, and suggest instead that PEP mutase catalysis proceeds via a dissociative mechanism in which the pyruvyl C(3) adds to the same face of the phosphorus from which the C(2)O departs. We propose that Arg159 and His190 serve to hold the phosphoryl/metaphosphate/phosphonyl group stationary along the reaction pathway, while the pyruvyl C(1)-C(2) bond rotates upon formation of the metaphosphate. In agreement with published data, the phosphoryl group transfer occurs on the Si-face of PEP with retention of configuration at phosphorus.
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- Sijiu Liu
- Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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The enzyme phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) from P. aeruginosa is required for the biosynthesis of two bacterial exopolysaccharides: alginate and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Both of these molecules play a role in the virulence of P. aeruginosa, an important human pathogen known for its ability to develop antibiotic resistance and cause chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients. The crystal structure of PMM/PGM shows that the enzyme has four domains, three of which have a similar three-dimensional fold. Residues from all four domains of the protein contribute to the formation of a large active site cleft in the center of the molecule. Detailed information on the active site of PMM/PGM lays the foundation for structure-based inhibitor design. Inhibitors of sufficient potency and specificity should impair the biosynthesis of alginate and LPS, and may facilitate clearance of the bacteria by the host immune system and increase the efficacy of conventional antibiotic treatment against chronic P. aeruginosa infections.
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- Catherine Regni
- Department of Biochemistry, 117 Schweitzer Hall, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Escherichia coli dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase and UDP-galactose 4-epimerase are members of the short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase SDR family. A highly conserved triad consisting of Ser/Thr, Tyr, and Lys is present in the active sites of these enzymes as well in other SDR proteins. Ser124, Tyr149, and Lys153 in the active site of UDP-galactose 4-epimerase are located in similar positions as the corresponding Thr134, Tyr160, and Lys164, in the active site of dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase. The role of these residues in the first hydride transfer step of the dTDP-glucose 4,6-dehydratase mechanism has been studied by mutagenesis and steady-state kinetic analysis. In all mutants except T134S, the k(cat) values are more than 2 orders of magnitude lower than of wild-type enzyme. The substrate analogue, dTDP-xylose, was used to investigate the effects of the mutations on rate of the first hydride transfer step. The first step becomes significantly rate limiting upon mutation of Tyr160 to Phe and only partly rate limiting in the reaction catalyzed by K164M and T134A dehydratases. The pH dependence of k(cat), the steady-state NADH level, and the fraction of NADH formed with saturating dTDP-xylose show shifts in the pK(a) assigned to Tyr160 to more basic values by mutation of Lys164 and Thr134. The pK(a) of Tyr160, as determined by the pH dependence of NADH formation by dTDP-xylose, is 6.41. Lys164 and Thr134 are believed to play important roles in the stabilization of the anion of Tyr160 in a fashion similar to the roles of the corresponding residues in UDP-galactose 4-epimerase, which facilitate the ionization of Tyr149 in that enzyme [Liu, Y., et al. (1997) Biochemistry 35, 10675--10684]. Tyr160 is presumably the base for the first hydride transfer step, while Thr134 may relay a proton from the sugar to Tyr160.
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- B Gerratana
- Institute for Enzyme Research and Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA
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Regni CA, Tipton PA, Beamer LJ. Crystallization and initial crystallographic analysis of phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2000; 56:761-2. [PMID: 10818357 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444900004431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The enzyme phosphomannomutase/phosphoglucomutase (PMM/PGM) catalyzes the conversion of mannose 6-phosphate to mannose 1-phosphate in the second step of the alginate biosynthetic pathway of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. PMM/PGM has been crystallized by hanging-drop vapor diffusion in space group P2(1)2(1)2(1). Crystals diffract to 1.75 A resolution on a synchrotron X-ray source under cryo-cooling conditions. PMM/PGM substituted with selenomethionine has been purified and crystallizes isomorphously with the native enzyme. Structure determination by MAD phasing is under way. Because of its role in alginate biosynthesis, PMM/PGM is a potential target for therapeutic inhibitors to combat P. aeruginosa infections.
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- C A Regni
- Biochemistry Department, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
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Britton K, Langridge S, Baker PJ, Weeradechapon K, Sedelnikova SE, De Lucas JR, Rice DW, Turner G. The crystal structure and active site location of isocitrate lyase from the fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Structure 2000; 8:349-62. [PMID: 10801489 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(00)00117-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Isocitrate lyase catalyses the first committed step of the carbon-conserving glyoxylate bypass, the Mg(2+)-dependent reversible cleavage of isocitrate into succinate and glyoxylate. This metabolic pathway is an inviting target for the control of a number of diseases, because the enzymes involved in this cycle have been identified in many pathogens including Mycobacterium leprae and Leishmania. RESULTS As part of a programme of rational drug design the structure of the tetrameric Aspergillus nidulans isocitrate lyase and its complex with glyoxylate and a divalent cation have been solved to 2.8 A resolution using X-ray diffraction. Each subunit comprises two domains, one of which adopts a folding pattern highly reminiscent of the triose phosphate isomerase (TIM) barrel. A 'knot' between subunits observed in the three-dimensional structure, involving residues towards the C terminus, implies that tetramer assembly involves considerable flexibility in this part of the protein. CONCLUSIONS Difference Fourier analysis together with the pattern of sequence conservation has led to the identification of both the glyoxylate and metal binding sites and implicates the C-terminal end of the TIM barrel as the active site, which is consistent with studies of other enzymes with this fold. Two disordered regions of the polypeptide chain lie close to the active site, one of which includes a critical cysteine residue suggesting that conformational rearrangements are essential for catalysis. Structural similarities between isocitrate lyase and both PEP mutase and enzymes belonging to the enolase superfamily suggest possible relationships in aspects of the mechanism.
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- K Britton
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Krebs Institute for Biomolecular Research, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK
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Jia Y, Lu Z, Huang K, Herzberg O, Dunaway-Mariano D. Insight into the mechanism of phosphoenolpyruvate mutase catalysis derived from site-directed mutagenesis studies of active site residues. Biochemistry 1999; 38:14165-73. [PMID: 10571990 DOI: 10.1021/bi990771j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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PEP mutase catalyzes the conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to phosphonopyruvate in biosynthetic pathways leading to phosphonate secondary metabolites. A recent X-ray structure [Huang, K., Li, Z., Jia, Y., Dunaway-Mariano, D., and Herzberg, O. (1999) Structure (in press)] of the Mytilus edulis enzyme complexed with the Mg(II) cofactor and oxalate inhibitor reveals an alpha/beta-barrel backbone-fold housing an active site in which Mg(II) is bound by the two carboxylate groups of the oxalate ligand and the side chain of D85 and, via bridging water molecules, by the side chains of D58, D85, D87, and E114. The oxalate ligand, in turn, interacts with the side chains of R159, W44, and S46 and the backbone amide NHs of G47 and L48. Modeling studies identified two feasible PEP binding modes: model A in which PEP replaces oxalate with its carboxylate group interacting with R159 and its phosphoryl group positioned close to D58 and Mg(II) shifting slightly from its original position in the crystal structure, and model B in which PEP replaces oxalate with its phosphoryl group interacting with R159 and Mg(II) retaining its original position. Site-directed mutagenesis studies of the key mutase active site residues (R159, D58, D85, D87, and E114) were carried out in order to evaluate the catalytic roles predicted by the two models. The observed retention of low catalytic activity in the mutants R159A, D85A, D87A, and E114A, coupled with the absence of detectable catalytic activity in D58A, was interpreted as evidence for model A in which D58 functions in nucleophilic catalysis (phosphoryl transfer), R159 functions in PEP carboxylate group binding, and the carboxylates of D85, D87 and E114 function in Mg(II) binding. These results also provide evidence against model B in which R159 serves to mediate the phosphoryl transfer. A catalytic motif, which could serve both the phosphoryl transfer and the C-C cleavage enzymes of the PEP mutase superfamily, is proposed.
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- Y Jia
- Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
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Pirard M, Matthijs G, Heykants L, Schollen E, Grünewald S, Jaeken J, van Schaftingen E. Effect of mutations found in carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome type IA on the activity of phosphomannomutase 2. FEBS Lett 1999; 452:319-22. [PMID: 10386614 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00673-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Seven mutant forms of human phosphomannomutase 2 were produced in Escherichia coli and purified. These mutants had a Vmax of 0.2-50% of the wild enzyme and were unstable. The least active protein (R141H) bears a very frequent mutation, which has never been found in the homozygous state whereas the second least active protein (D188G) corresponds to a mutation associated with a particularly severe phenotype. We conclude that total lack of phosphomannomutase 2 is incompatible with life. Another conclusion is that the elevated residual phosphomannomutase activity found in fibroblasts of some patients is contributed by their mutated phosphomannomutase 2.
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- M Pirard
- Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry, ICP and Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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Huang K, Li Z, Jia Y, Dunaway-Mariano D, Herzberg O. Helix swapping between two alpha/beta barrels: crystal structure of phosphoenolpyruvate mutase with bound Mg(2+)-oxalate. Structure 1999; 7:539-48. [PMID: 10378273 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(99)80070-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Phosphonate compounds are important secondary metabolites in nature and, when linked to macromolecules in eukaryotes, they might play a role in cell signaling. The first obligatory step in the biosynthesis of phosphonates is the formation of a carbon-phosphorus bond by converting phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) to phosphonopyruvate (P-pyr), a reaction that is catalyzed by PEP mutase. The PEP mutase functions as a tetramer and requires magnesium ions (Mg2+). RESULTS The crystal structure of PEP mutase from the mollusk Mytilus edulis, bound to the inhibitor Mg(2+)-oxalate, has been determined using multiwavelength anomalous diffraction, exploiting the selenium absorption edge of a selenomethionine-containing protein. The structure has been refined at 1.8 A resolution. PEP mutase adopts a modified alpha/beta barrel fold, in which the eighth alpha helix projects away from the alpha/beta barrel instead of packing against the beta sheet. A tightly associated dimer is formed, such that the two eighth helices are swapped, each packing against the beta sheet of the neighboring molecule. A dimer of dimers further associates into a tetramer. Mg(2+)-oxalate is buried close to the center of the barrel, at the C-terminal ends of the beta strands. CONCLUSIONS The tetramer observed in the crystal is likely to be physiologically relevant. Because the Mg(2+)-oxalate is inaccessible to solvent, substrate binding and dissociation might be accompanied by conformational changes. A mechanism involving a phosphoenzyme intermediate is proposed, with Asp58 acting as the nucleophilic entity that accepts and delivers the phosphoryl group. The active-site architecture and the chemistry performed by PEP mutase are different from other alpha/beta-barrel proteins that bind pyruvate or PEP, thus the enzyme might represent a new family of alpha/beta-barrel proteins.
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- K Huang
- Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Rockville 20850, USA
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Popova TN, Matasova LV, Lapot'ko AA. Purification, separation and characterization of phosphoglucomutase and phosphomannomutase from maize leaves. Biochem Mol Biol Int 1998; 46:461-70. [PMID: 9818085 DOI: 10.1080/15216549800203982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Different phosphomutases-phosphoglucomutase (EC 2.7.5.1; PGM) and phosphomannomutase (EC 2.7.5.7; PMM) from maize (Zea mays L.) leaves have been purified. PGM and PMM were completely separated from each other. The purified PGM was shown to be electrophoretically homogeneous. The PGM from maize leaves was found to be a homodimer with an apparent molecular mass of 132 kDa, the size of the subunits was 66 kDa. The PGM is a bifunctional enzyme, which can use both glucose-1-phosphate and mannose-1-phosphate as substrates. In contrast, the PMM appears to be monospecific for mannose-1-phosphate. Evidence is presented that PMM differs from PGM. Some properties of the maize leaves PGM and PMM differ in many respects (K(m) for substrates, pH optimum). However, some properties of PGM and PMM were similar (influence of Mg2+ and Mn2+ ions).
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- T N Popova
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Voronezh State University, Russia
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- J F Collet
- Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology and Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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Collet JF, Stroobant V, Pirard M, Delpierre G, Van Schaftingen E. A new class of phosphotransferases phosphorylated on an aspartate residue in an amino-terminal DXDX(T/V) motif. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:14107-12. [PMID: 9603909 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.23.14107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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When incubated with their substrates, human phosphomannomutase and L-3-phosphoserine phosphatase are known to form phosphoenzymes with chemical characteristics of an acyl-phosphate. The phosphorylated residue in phosphomannomutase has now been identified by mass spectrometry after reduction of the phosphoenzyme with tritiated borohydride and trypsin digestion. It is the first aspartate in a conserved DVDGT motif. Replacement of either aspartate of this motif by asparagine or glutamate resulted in complete inactivation of the enzyme. The same mutations performed in the DXDST motif of L-3-phosphoserine phosphatase also resulted in complete inactivation of the enzyme, except for the replacement of the second aspartate by glutamate, which reduced the activity by only about 40%. This suggests that the first aspartate of the motif is also the phosphorylated residue in L-3-phosphoserine phosphatase. Data banks contained seven other phosphomutases or phosphatases sharing a similar, totally conserved DXDX(T/V) motif at their amino terminus. One of these (beta-phosphoglucomutase) is shown to form a phosphoenzyme with the characteristics of an acyl-phosphate. In conclusion, phosphomannomutase and L-3-phosphoserine phosphatase belong to a new phosphotransferase family with an amino-terminal DXDX(T/V) motif that serves as an intermediate phosphoryl acceptor.
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- J F Collet
- Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry, Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology and Catholic University of Louvain, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
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Hidaka T, Goda M, Kuzuyama T, Takei N, Hidaka M, Seto H. Cloning and nucleotide sequence of fosfomycin biosynthetic genes of Streptomyces wedmorensis. Mol Gen Genet 1995; 249:274-80. [PMID: 7500951 DOI: 10.1007/bf00290527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The biosynthetic pathway for production of the antibiotic fosfomycin by Streptomyces wedmorensis consists of four steps including the formation of a C-P bond and an epoxide. Fosfomycin production genes were cloned from genomic DNA using S. wedmorensis mutants blocked at different steps of the biosynthetic pathway. Four genes corresponding to each of the biosynthetic steps were found to be clustered in a DNA fragment of about 5 kb. Nucleotide sequencing of a large fragment revealed the presence of ten open reading frames, including the four biosynthetic genes and six genes with unknown functions.
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- T Hidaka
- Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
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A previously cloned gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which complements the growth defect of a phosphoglucomutase (pgm1 delta/pgm2 delta) double deletion mutant on a pure galactose medium [Boles, E., Liebetrau, W., Hofmann, M. & Zimmermann, F. K. (1994) Eur. J. Biochem. 220, 83-96], was identified as the structural gene encoding N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate mutase. The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene, AGM1, and surrounding regions were determined. AGM1 codes for a predicted 62-kDa protein with 557 amino acids and is located on chromosome V adjacent to the known gene PRB1 encoding protease B. No extended nucleotide or amino acid sequence similarities could be found in the databases, except for a small region of amino acids with high similarity to the active-site consensus sequence of hexosephosphate mutases. Three putative pheromone-responsive elements have been identified in the upstream region of the AGM1 gene. The gene is essential for cell viability. An agm1 deletion mutant progresses through only approximately five cell cycles to form a 'string' of undivided cells with an abnormal cell morphology resembling glucosamine auxotrophic mutants. Expression of the AGM1 gene on a multi-copy plasmid led to a significantly increased N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate mutase activity. Unlike over-expression of the AGM1 gene in a pgm1/pgm2 double deletion mutant which could restore phosphoglucomutase activity, over-expression of the PGM2 gene encoding the major isoenzyme of phosphoglucomutase did not increase N-acetylglucosamine-phosphate-mutase activity and did not restore growth of agm1 deletion mutant cells. Our observations indicate that the different hexosephosphate mutases of S. cerevisiae have partially overlapping substrate specificities but, nevertheless, distinct physiological functions.
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- M Hofmann
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany
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