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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 21, Issue 42, Pages 23338-23345Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c9cp03804c
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- Universita degli Studi della Calabria, Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche (CTC)
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Nature exploits different strategies for enhancing the catalytic activity of enzymes, often resorting to producing beneficial mutations. The case of post-translational proline hydroxylation mutation in the active site of polysaccharide deacetylase (PDA) Bc1960 from Bacillus cereus is an interesting example of how small chemical modifications can cause significant improvements in enzymatic activity. In the present study the deacetylation mechanism promoted by both OH-proline (2Hyp) and standard proline (Pro) containing PDA is investigated using density functional theory. Although the mechanism presented for the two examined enzymes is in agreement with protease catalysis in metalloenzymes, the analysis along the potential energy surface (PES) reveals that the intermediate and product benefit energetically from the presence of the hydroxyl group on the proline. Our calculations provide evidence that for PDA-2Hyp, the hydrogen bond network established by the -OH group on the C alpha of the proline with its closest neighbors stabilizes the transition states and, consequently, the reaction takes advantage of this. These results further contribute towards explaining the different catalytic activity experimentally observed for the polysaccharide deacetylase enzymes.
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