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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 279, Issue 43, Pages 45110-45120Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M404561200
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM61413, GM71805] Funding Source: Medline
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The enzyme 3-deoxy-D-manno-2-octulosonate-8-phosphate (KDO8P) synthase is metal-dependent in one class of organisms and metal-independent in another. We have used a rapid transient kinetic approach combined with site-directed mutagenesis to characterize the role of the metal ion as well as to explore the catalytic mechanisms of the two classes of enzymes. In the metal-dependent Aquifex pyrophilus KDO8P synthase, Cys(11) was replaced by Asn (ApC11N), and in the metal-independent Escherichia coli KDO8P synthase a reciprocal mutation, Asn(26) to Cys, was prepared (EcN26C). The ApC11N mutant retained about 10% of the wild-type maximal activity in the absence of metal ions. Addition of divalent metal ions did not affect the catalytic activity of the mutant enzyme and its catalytic efficiency (k(cat)/K-m) was reduced by only similar to12-fold, implying that the ApC11N KDO8P synthase mutant has become a bone fide metal-independent enzyme. The isolated EcN26C mutant had similar metal content and spectral properties as the metal-dependent wild-type A. pyrophilus KDO8P synthase. EDTA-treated EcN26C retained about 6% of the wild-type activity, and the addition of Mn2+ or Cd2+ stimulated its activity to similar to30% of the wild-type maximal activity. This suggests that EcN26C KDO8P synthase mutant has properties similar to that of metal-dependent KDO8P synthases. The combined data indicate that the metal ion is not directly involved in the chemistry of the KDO8P synthase catalyzed reaction, but has an important structural role in metal-dependent enzymes in maintaining the correct orientation of the substrates and/or reaction intermediate(s) in the enzyme active site.
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