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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 137, Issue 46, Pages 14733-14742Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b08687
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- Max-Planck-Society
- LOEWE Research cluster SynChemBio
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Enoate reductases catalyze the reduction of activated C=C bonds with high enantioselectivity. The oxidative half-reaction, which involves the addition of a hydride and a proton to opposite faces of the C=C bond, has been studied for the first time by hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM). The reduction of 2-cyclohexen-1-one by YqjM from Bacillus subtilis was selected as the model system. Two-dimensional QM/MM (B3LYP-D/OPLS2005) reaction pathways suggest that the hydride and proton are added as distinct steps, with the former step preceding the latter. Furthermore, we present interesting insights into the reactivity of this enzyme, including the weak binding of the substrate in the active site, the role of the two active site histidine residues for polarization of the substrate C=O bond, structural details of the transition states to hydride and proton transfer, and the role of Tyr196 as proton donor. The information presented here will be useful for the future design of enantioselective YqjM mutants for other substrates.
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