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BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 379, Issue -, Pages 777-784Publisher
PORTLAND PRESS LTD
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20031373
Keywords
carnitine acetyltransferase; carnitine palmitoyltransferase I; docking analysis; fatty acid beta-oxidation; site-directed mutagenesis; three-dimensional structural model
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CPT I (carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1) catalyses the conversion of palmitoyl-CoA into palmitoylcarnitine in the presence of L-carnitine, facilitating the entry of fatty acids into mitochondria. We propose a 3-D (three-dimensional) structural model for L-CPT I (liver CPT 1), based on the similarity of this enzyme to the recently crystallized mouse carnitine acetyltransferase. The model includes 607 of the 773 amino acids of L-CPT 1, and the positions of carnitine, CoA and the palmitoyl group were assigned by superposition and docking analysis. Functional analysis of this 3-D model included the mutagenesis of several amino acids in order to identify putative catalytic residues. Mutants D477A, D567A and E590D showed reduced L-CPT I activity. In addition, individual mutation of amino acids forming the conserved Ser 611 Thr(686)-Ser(687) 617 motif abolished enzyme activity in mutants T686A and S687A and altered K-m and the catalytic efficiency for carnitine in mutant S685A. We conclude that the catalytic residues are HiS(473) and ASp(477), while Ser(687) probably stabilizes the transition state. Several conserved lysines, i.e. LYS455, Lys(505), Lys(560). and LyS(561), were also mutated. Only mutants K455A and K560A showed decreases in activity of 50%. The model rationalizes the finding of nine natural mutations in patients with hereditary L-CPT I deficiencies.
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