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Winkler KF, Panse L, Maiwald C, Hayeß J, Fischer P, Fehlau M, Neubauer P, Kurreck A. Screening the Thermotoga maritima genome for new wide-spectrum nucleoside and nucleotide kinases. J Biol Chem 2023:104746. [PMID: 37094698 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2023.104746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2023] [Revised: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 04/16/2023] [Indexed: 04/26/2023] Open
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Enzymes from thermophilic organisms are interesting biocatalysts for a wide variety of applications in organic synthesis, biotechnology and molecular biology. Next to an increased stability at elevated temperatures, they were described to show a wider substrate spectrum than their mesophilic counterparts. To identify thermostable biocatalysts for the synthesis of nucleotide analogs, we performed a database search on the carbohydrate and nucleotide metabolism of T. maritima. After expression and purification of 13 enzyme candidates involved in nucleotide synthesis, these enzymes were screened for their substrate scope. We found that the synthesis of 2'-deoxynucleoside 5'-monophosphates (dNMPs) and uridine 5'-monophosphate from nucleosides was catalyzed by the already known wide-spectrum thymidine kinase (TK) and the ribokinase. In contrast, no NMP-forming activity was detected for adenosine-specific kinase, uridine kinase or nucleotidase. The NMP kinases (NMPKs) and the pyruvate-phosphate-dikinase of T. maritima exhibited a rather specific substrate spectrum for the phosphorylation of NMPs, while pyruvate kinase, acetate kinase and three of the NMPKs showed a broad substrate scope with (2'-deoxy)nucleoside 5'-diphosphates as substrates. Based on these promising results, TmNMPKs were applied in enzymatic cascade reactions for nucleoside 5'-triphosphate synthesis using four modified pyrimidine nucleosides and four purine NMPs as substrates, and we determined that base- and sugar-modified substrates were accepted. In summary, besides the already reported TmTK, NMPKs of T. maritima were identified to be interesting enzyme candidates for the enzymatic production of modified nucleotides.
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- Katja F Winkler
- Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty III Process Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty III Process Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty III Process Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty III Process Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty III Process Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany; BioNukleo GmbH, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty III Process Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany
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- Technische Universität Berlin, Faculty III Process Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology, Chair of Bioprocess Engineering, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany; BioNukleo GmbH, Ackerstraße 76, 13355 Berlin, Germany.
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Lou L, Li Z, Li Z. Rational Design to Enhance Enzyme Activity for the Establishment of an Enzyme-Inorganic Hybrid Nanoflower Co-Immobilization System for Efficient Nucleotide Production. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2022; 70:2312-2319. [PMID: 35133135 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.1c08001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Increasing yields while reducing costs is one of the ultimate pursuits of industrial production. To achieve this goal in the enzymatic production of multiple nucleotides, in this study, a co-immobilized polyphosphate kinase-nucleoside kinase hybridized nanoflower system (PPK@NK) was constructed. To improve the productivity, the nucleoside kinase (NK) used was rationally designed, and a variant with significantly increased activity compared to the wild type was obtained. The polyphosphate kinase (PPK) and NK could be sequentially adsorbed on the surface of hybrid nanoflowers at room temperature (25 °C) through the interaction of Cu2+ and proteins without any other chemical pretreatment. The optimal preparation conditions and reaction parameters of PPK@NK hybrid nanoflowers were investigated. Under optimal reaction conditions, the newly prepared co-immobilization system could catalyze the conversion of 100 mM uridine, cytidine, and inosine to the corresponding nucleotides completely within 4 h and could be reused at least six times. The storage stability of the co-immobilized system was more than 2-fold higher than that of the free enzyme, and there was no significant difference in thermostability. PPK@NK hybridized nanoflowers have properties such as easy preparation and storage and low cost, indicating their suitability for the efficient production of nucleotides.
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- Longwei Lou
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
- Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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An Evolutionary Marker of the Ribokinase Superfamily Is Responsible for Zinc-Mediated Regulation of Human Pyridoxal Kinase. Catalysts 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/catal10050555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The ribokinase superfamily catalyzes the phosphorylation of a vast diversity of substrates, and its members are characterized by the conservation of a common structural fold along with highly conserved sequence motifs responsible for phosphoryl transfer (GXGD) and stabilization of the metal-nucleotide complex (NXXE). Recently, a third motif (HXE) exclusive from ADP-dependent enzymes was identified, with its glutamic acid participating in water-mediated interactions with the metal-nucleotide complex and in stabilization of the ternary complex during catalysis. In this work, we bioinformatically determine that the aspartic acid of another motif (DPV), exclusively found in hydroxyethyl thiazole (THZK), hydroxymethyl pyrimidine (HMPK) and pyridoxal kinases (PLK), is structurally equivalent to the acidic residue in the HXE motif. Moreover, this residue is highly conserved among all ribokinase superfamily members. To determine whether the functional role of the DPV motif is similar to the HXE motif, we employed molecular dynamics simulations using crystal structures of phosphoryl donor substrate-complexed THZK and PLK, showing that its aspartic acid participated in water-mediated or direct interactions with the divalent metal of the metal-nucleotide complex. Lastly, enzyme kinetic assays on human PLK, an enzyme that utilizes zinc, showed that site-directed mutagenesis of the aspartic acid from the DPV motif abolishes the inhibition of this enzyme by increasing free zinc concentrations. Altogether, our results highlight that the DPV and HXE motifs are evolutionary markers of the functional and structural divergence of the ribokinase superfamily and evidence the role of the DPV motif in the interaction with both free and nucleotide-complexed divalent metals in the binding site of these enzymes.
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Murillo-López J, Zinovjev K, Pereira H, Caniuguir A, Garratt R, Babul J, Recabarren R, Alzate-Morales J, Caballero J, Tuñón I, Cabrera R. Studying the phosphoryl transfer mechanism of the E. coli phosphofructokinase-2: from X-ray structure to quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics simulations. Chem Sci 2019; 10:2882-2892. [PMID: 30996866 PMCID: PMC6429617 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc00094a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Phosphofructokinases catalyze the ATP-dependent phosphorylation of fructose-6-phosphate and they are highly regulated.
Phosphofructokinases (Pfks) catalyze the ATP-dependent phosphorylation of fructose-6-phosphate (F6P) and they are regulated in a wide variety of organisms. Although numerous aspects of the kinetics and regulation have been characterized for Pfks, the knowledge about the mechanism of the phosphoryl transfer reaction and the transition state lags behind. In this work, we describe the X-ray crystal structure of the homodimeric Pfk-2 from E. coli, which contains products in one site and reactants in the other, as well as an additional ATP molecule in the inhibitory allosteric site adjacent to the reactants. This complex was previously predicted when studying the kinetic mechanism of ATP inhibition. After removing the allosteric ATP, molecular dynamic (MD) simulations revealed conformational changes related to domain packing, as well as stable interactions of Lys27 and Asp256 with donor (ATP) and acceptor (fructose-6-) groups, and of Asp166 with Mg2+. The phosphoryl transfer reaction mechanism catalyzed by Pfk-2 was investigated through Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) simulations using a combination of the string method and a path-collective variable for the exploration of its free energy surface. The calculated activation free energies showed that a dissociative mechanism, occurring with a metaphosphate intermediate formation followed by a proton transfer to Asp256, is more favorable than an associative one. The structural analysis reveals the role of Asp256 acting as a catalytic base and Lys27 stabilizing the transition state of the dissociative mechanism.
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- Juliana Murillo-López
- Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular (CBSM) , Facultad de Ingeniería , Universidad de Talca , 1 Poniente 1141 , Talca , Chile .
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- Departament de Química Física , Universitat de València , 46100 Burjassot , Spain .
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- Instituto de Física de São Carlos , Universidade de São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil
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- Departamento de Biología , Facultad de Ciencias , Universidad de Chile , Santiago , Chile .
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- Instituto de Física de São Carlos , Universidade de São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil
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- Departamento de Biología , Facultad de Ciencias , Universidad de Chile , Santiago , Chile .
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- Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular (CBSM) , Facultad de Ingeniería , Universidad de Talca , 1 Poniente 1141 , Talca , Chile .
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- Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular (CBSM) , Facultad de Ingeniería , Universidad de Talca , 1 Poniente 1141 , Talca , Chile .
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- Centro de Bioinformática y Simulación Molecular (CBSM) , Facultad de Ingeniería , Universidad de Talca , 1 Poniente 1141 , Talca , Chile .
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- Departament de Química Física , Universitat de València , 46100 Burjassot , Spain .
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- Departamento de Biología , Facultad de Ciencias , Universidad de Chile , Santiago , Chile .
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Del Arco J, Fernández-Lucas J. Purine and pyrimidine salvage pathway in thermophiles: a valuable source of biocatalysts for the industrial production of nucleic acid derivatives. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2018; 102:7805-7820. [PMID: 30027492 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-9242-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2018] [Revised: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/11/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Due to their similarity to natural counterparts, nucleic acid derivatives (nucleobases, nucleosides, and nucleotides, among others) are interesting molecules for pharmaceutical, biomedical, or food industries. For this reason, there is increasing worldwide demand for the development of efficient synthetic processes for these compounds. Chemical synthetic methodologies require numerous protection-deprotection steps and often lead to the presence of undesirable by-products or enantiomeric mixtures. These methods also require harsh operating conditions, such as the use of organic solvents and hazard reagents. Conversely, enzymatic production by whole cells or enzymes improves regio-, stereo-, and enantioselectivity and provides an eco-friendly alternative. Because of their essential role in purine and pyrimidine scavenging, enzymes from purine and pyrimidine salvage pathways are valuable candidates for the synthesis of many different nucleic acid components. In recent years, many different enzymes from these routes, such as nucleoside phosphorylases, nucleoside kinases, 2'-deoxyribosyltransferases, phosphoribosyl transferases, or deaminases, have been successfully employed as biocatalysts in the production of nucleobase, nucleoside, or nucleotide analogs. Due to their great activity and stability at extremely high temperatures, the use of enzymes from thermophiles in industrial biocatalysis is gaining momentum. Thermophilic enzymes not only display unique characteristics such as temperature, chemical, and pH stability but also provide many different advantages from an industrial perspective. This mini-review aims to cover the most representative enzymatic approaches for the synthesis of nucleic acid derivatives. In this regard, we provide detailed comments about enzymes involved in crucial steps of purine and pyrimidine salvage pathways in thermophiles, as well as their biological role, biochemical characterization, active site mechanism, and substrate specificity. In addition, the most interesting synthetic examples reported in the literature are also included.
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- Jon Del Arco
- Applied Biotechnology Group, Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Urbanización El Bosque, c/ Tajo, s/n, E-28670, Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Spain
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- Applied Biotechnology Group, Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Urbanización El Bosque, c/ Tajo, s/n, E-28670, Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid, Spain. .,Grupo de Investigación en Desarrollo Agroindustrial Sostenible, Universidad de la Costa, CUC, Calle 58 #55-66, Barranquilla, Colombia.
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Abramchik YA, Timofeev VI, Muravieva TI, Esipov RS, Kuranova IP. Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction study of recombinant ribokinase from Thermus Species 2.9. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s106377451606002x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Schönheit P, Buckel W, Martin WF. On the Origin of Heterotrophy. Trends Microbiol 2016; 24:12-25. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2015] [Revised: 09/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/07/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Nagata R, Fujihashi M, Sato T, Atomi H, Miki K. Crystal Structure and Product Analysis of an Archaeal myo-Inositol Kinase Reveal Substrate Recognition Mode and 3-OH Phosphorylation. Biochemistry 2015; 54:3494-503. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.5b00296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ryuhei Nagata
- 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 Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of
Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
- JST, CREST, 7, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
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- Department
of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of
Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
- JST, CREST, 7, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
- JST, CREST, 7, Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076, Japan
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Carbohydrate metabolism in Archaea: current insights into unusual enzymes and pathways and their regulation. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2014; 78:89-175. [PMID: 24600042 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00041-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The metabolism of Archaea, the third domain of life, resembles in its complexity those of Bacteria and lower Eukarya. However, this metabolic complexity in Archaea is accompanied by the absence of many "classical" pathways, particularly in central carbohydrate metabolism. Instead, Archaea are characterized by the presence of unique, modified variants of classical pathways such as the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas (EMP) pathway and the Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway. The pentose phosphate pathway is only partly present (if at all), and pentose degradation also significantly differs from that known for bacterial model organisms. These modifications are accompanied by the invention of "new," unusual enzymes which cause fundamental consequences for the underlying regulatory principles, and classical allosteric regulation sites well established in Bacteria and Eukarya are lost. The aim of this review is to present the current understanding of central carbohydrate metabolic pathways and their regulation in Archaea. In order to give an overview of their complexity, pathway modifications are discussed with respect to unusual archaeal biocatalysts, their structural and mechanistic characteristics, and their regulatory properties in comparison to their classic counterparts from Bacteria and Eukarya. Furthermore, an overview focusing on hexose metabolic, i.e., glycolytic as well as gluconeogenic, pathways identified in archaeal model organisms is given. Their energy gain is discussed, and new insights into different levels of regulation that have been observed so far, including the transcript and protein levels (e.g., gene regulation, known transcription regulators, and posttranslational modification via reversible protein phosphorylation), are presented.
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Elkin SR, Kumar A, Price CW, Columbus L. A broad specificity nucleoside kinase from Thermoplasma acidophilum. Proteins 2013; 81:568-82. [PMID: 23161756 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2012] [Revised: 10/18/2012] [Accepted: 11/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The crystal structure of Ta0880, determined at 1.91 Å resolution, from Thermoplasma acidophilum revealed a dimer with each monomer composed of an α/β/α sandwich domain and a smaller lid domain. The overall fold belongs to the PfkB family of carbohydrate kinases (a family member of the Ribokinase clan) which include ribokinases, 1-phosphofructokinases, 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase, inosine/guanosine kinases, fructokinases, adenosine kinases, and many more. Based on its general fold, Ta0880 had been annotated as a ribokinase-like protein. Using a coupled pyruvate kinase/lactate dehydrogenase assay, the activity of Ta0880 was assessed against a variety of ribokinase/pfkB-like family substrates; activity was not observed for ribose, fructose-1-phosphate, or fructose-6-phosphate. Based on structural similarity with nucleoside kinases (NK) from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii (MjNK, PDB 2C49, and 2C4E) and Burkholderia thailandensis (BtNK, PDB 3B1O), nucleoside kinase activity was investigated. Ta0880 (TaNK) was confirmed to have nucleoside kinase activity with an apparent KM for guanosine of 0.21 μM and catalytic efficiency of 345,000 M(-1) s(-1) . These three NKs have significantly different substrate, phosphate donor, and cation specificities and comparisons of specificity and structure identified residues likely responsible for the nucleoside substrate selectivity. Phylogenetic analysis identified three clusters within the PfkB family and indicates that TaNK is a member of a new sub-family with broad nucleoside specificities. Proteins 2013. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Sarah R Elkin
- Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4319, USA
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Yasutake Y, Ota H, Hino E, Sakasegawa SI, Tamura T. Structures of Burkholderia thailandensis nucleoside kinase: implications for the catalytic mechanism and nucleoside selectivity. ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION D: BIOLOGICAL CRYSTALLOGRAPHY 2011; 67:945-56. [PMID: 22101821 DOI: 10.1107/s0907444911038777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2011] [Accepted: 09/21/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The nucleoside kinase (NK) from the mesophilic Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia thailandensis (BthNK) is a member of the phosphofructokinase B (Pfk-B) family and catalyzes the Mg(2+)- and ATP-dependent phosphorylation of a broad range of nucleosides such as inosine (INO), adenosine (ADO) and mizoribine (MZR). BthNK is currently used in clinical practice to measure serum MZR levels. Here, crystal structures of BthNK in a ligand-free form and in complexes with INO, INO-ADP, MZR-ADP and AMP-Mg(2+)-AMP are described. The typical homodimeric architecture of Pfk-B enzymes was detected in three distinct conformational states: an asymmetric dimer with one subunit in an open conformation and the other in a closed conformation (the ligand-free form), a closed conformation (the binary complex with INO) and a fully closed conformation (the other ternary and quaternary complexes). The previously unreported fully closed structures suggest the possibility that Mg(2+) might directly interact with the β- and γ-phosphates of ATP to maintain neutralization of the negative charge throughout the reaction. The nucleoside-complex structures also showed that the base moiety of the bound nucleoside is partly exposed to the solvent, thereby enabling the recognition of a wide range of nucleoside bases. Gly170 is responsible for the solvent accessibility of the base moiety and is assumed to be a key residue for the broad nucleoside recognition of BthNK. Remarkably, the G170Q mutation increases the specificity of BthNK for ADO. These findings provide insight into the conformational dynamics, catalytic mechanism and nucleoside selectivity of BthNK and related enzymes.
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- Yoshiaki Yasutake
- Bioproduction Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-17-2-1 Tsukisamu-Higashi, Sapporo 062-8517, Japan
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Physical and functional interaction between d-ribokinase and topoisomerase I has opposite effects on their respective activity in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Arch Biochem Biophys 2011; 512:135-42. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2011.05.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2011] [Revised: 05/24/2011] [Accepted: 05/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cabrera R, Babul J, Guixé V. Ribokinase family evolution and the role of conserved residues at the active site of the PfkB subfamily representative, Pfk-2 from Escherichia coli. Arch Biochem Biophys 2010; 502:23-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2010.06.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2010] [Revised: 06/18/2010] [Accepted: 06/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ota H, Sakasegawa SI, Yasuda Y, Imamura S, Tamura T. A novel nucleoside kinase from Burkholderia thailandensis: a member of the phosphofructokinase B-type family of enzymes. FEBS J 2009; 275:5865-72. [PMID: 19021762 DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06716.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The genome of the mesophilic Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia thailandensis contains an open reading frame (i.e. the Bth_I1158 gene) that has been annotated as a putative ribokinase and PFK-B family member. Notably, although the deduced amino acid sequence of the gene showed only 29% similarity to the recently identified nucleoside kinase from hyperthermophilic archaea Methanocaldococcus jannaschii, 15 of 17 residues reportedly involved in the catalytic activity of M. jannaschii nucleoside kinase were conserved. The gene was cloned and functionally overexpressed in Rhodococcus erythropolis, and the purified enzyme was characterized biochemically. The substrate specificity of the enzyme was unusually broad for a bacterial PFK-B protein, and the specificity extended not only to purine and purine-analog nucleosides but also to uridine. Inosine was the most effective phosphoryl acceptor, with the highest k(cat)/K(m) value (80 s(-1).mm(-1)) being achieved when ATP served as the phosphoryl donor. By contrast, this enzyme exhibited no activity toward ribose, indicating that the recombinant enzyme was a nucleoside kinase rather than a ribokinase. To our knowledge, this is the first detailed analysis of a bacterial nucleoside kinase in the PFK-B family.
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- Hiroko Ota
- Asahi Kasei Pharma Corporation, Shizuoka, Japan
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Cabrera R, Ambrosio ALB, Garratt RC, Guixé V, Babul J. Crystallographic structure of phosphofructokinase-2 from Escherichia coli in complex with two ATP molecules. Implications for substrate inhibition. J Mol Biol 2008; 383:588-602. [PMID: 18762190 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.08.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2008] [Revised: 08/10/2008] [Accepted: 08/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Phosphofructokinase-1 and -2 (Pfk-1 and Pfk-2, respectively) from Escherichia coli belong to different homologous superfamilies. However, in spite of the lack of a common ancestor, they share the ability to catalyze the same reaction and are inhibited by the substrate MgATP. Pfk-2, an ATP-dependent 6-phosphofructokinase member of the ribokinase-like superfamily, is a homodimer of 66 kDa subunits whose oligomerization state is necessary for catalysis and stability. The presence of MgATP favors the tetrameric form of the enzyme. In this work, we describe the structure of Pfk-2 in its inhibited tetrameric form, with each subunit bound to two ATP molecules and two Mg ions. The present structure indicates that substrate inhibition occurs due to the sequential binding of two MgATP molecules per subunit, the first at the usual site occupied by the nucleotide in homologous enzymes and the second at the allosteric site, making a number of direct and Mg-mediated interactions with the first. Two configurations are observed for the second MgATP, one of which involves interactions with Tyr23 from the adjacent subunit in the dimer and the other making an unusual non-Watson-Crick base pairing with the adenine in the substrate ATP. The oligomeric state observed in the crystal is tetrameric, and some of the structural elements involved in the binding of the substrate and allosteric ATPs are also participating in the dimer-dimer interface. This structure also provides the grounds to compare analogous features of the nonhomologous phosphofructokinases from E. coli.
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- Ricardo Cabrera
- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile
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