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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 116, Issue 24, Pages 7076-7087Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp301165b
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- DFG [UL 174/8-2]
- BioMedTec International Graduate School of the Elitenetwork Bavaria
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A combination of continuum electrostatic and density functional calculations has been employed to study the mechanism of the B-12-independent glycerol dehydratase, a novel glycyl-radical enzyme involved in the microbial conversion of glycerol to 3-hydroxylpropionaldehyde. The calculations indicate that the dehydratation of glycerol by the B-12-independent enzyme does not need to involve a mechanistically complicated migration of the middle hydroxyl group to one of the two terminal positions of a molecule, as previously suggested. Instead, the reaction can proceed in three elementary steps. First, a radical transfer from the catalytically active Cys433 to the ligand generates a substrate-related intermediate. Second, a hydroxyl group splits off at the middle position of the ligand and is protonated by the neighboring His164 to form a water molecule. The other active site residue Glu435 accepts a proton from one of the terminal hydroxyl groups of the ligand and a C=O double bond is created. Third, the reaction is completed by a radical back transfer from the product-related intermediate to Cys433. On the basis of our calculations, the catalytic functions of the active site residues have been suggested. Cys433 is a radical relay site; His164 and Glu435 make up a proton accepting/donating system; Asn156, His281, and Asp447 form a network of hydrogen bonds responsible for the electrostatic stabilization of the transition state. A synergistic participation of these residues in the reaction seems to be crucial for the catalysis.
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