期刊
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
卷 63, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01754-18
关键词
New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase; antibiotic resistance; enzyme mechanism; enzyme structure; metallo-beta-lactamase
资金
- CONICET
- COLCIENCIAS
- ANPCyT
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [R01 AI100560]
- NIH [R01 AI072219, R01 AI063517]
- ECOS-MinCyT collaborative project
- Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs and Development [1I01BX001974]
- Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
Carbapenems are last resort beta-lactam antibiotics used to treat serious and life-threatening health care-associated infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Unfortunately, the worldwide spread of genes coding for carbapenemases among these bacteria is threatening these life-saving drugs. Metallo-beta-lactamases (M beta Ls) are the largest family of carbapenemases. These are Zn(II)-dependent hydrolases that are active against almost all beta-lactam antibiotics. Their catalytic mechanism and the features driving substrate specificity have been matter of intense debate. The active sites of M beta Ls are flanked by two loops, one of which, loop L3, was shown to adopt different conformations upon substrate or inhibitor binding, and thus are expected to play a role in substrate recognition. However, the sequence heterogeneity observed in this loop in different M beta Ls has limited the generalizations about its role. Here, we report the engineering of different loops within the scaffold of the clinically relevant carbapenemase NDM-1. We found that the loop sequence dictates its conformation in the unbound form of the enzyme, eliciting different degrees of active-site exposure. However, these structural changes have a minor impact on the substrate profile. Instead, we report that the loop conformation determines the protonation rate of key reaction intermediates accumulated during the hydrolysis of different beta-lactams in all M beta Ls. This study demonstrates the existence of a direct link between the conformation of this loop and the mechanistic features of the enzyme, bringing to light an unexplored function of active-site loops on M beta Ls.
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