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BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 51, 期 16, 页码 3433-3444出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi300197h
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- National Institutes of Health [DK47814, GM18938]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Biological and Environmental Research [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
N-Acetylperosamine is an unusual dideoxysugar found in the 0-antigens of some Gram-negative bacteria, including the pathogenic Escherichia coli strain O157:H7. The last step in its biosynthesis is catalyzed by PerB, an N-acetyltransferase belonging to the left-handed beta-helix superfamily of proteins. Here we describe a combined structural and functional investigation of PerB from Caulobacter crescentus. For this study, three structures were determined to 1.0 angstrom resolution or better: the enzyme in complex with CoA and GDP-perosamine, the protein with bound CoA and GDP-N-acetylperosamine, and the enzyme containing a tetrahedral transition state mimic bound in the active site. Each subunit of the trimeric enzyme folds into two distinct regions. The N-terminal domain is globular and dominated by a six-stranded mainly parallel beta-sheet. It provides most of the interactions between the protein and GDP-perosamine. The C-terminal domain consists of a left-handed beta-helix, which has nearly seven turns. This region provides the scaffold for CoA binding. On the basis of these high-resolution structures, site-directed mutant proteins were constructed to test the roles of His 141 and Asp 142 in the catalytic mechanism. Kinetic data and pH-rate profiles are indicative of His 141 serving as a general base. In addition, the backbone amide group of Gly 159 provides an oxyanion hole for stabilization of the tetrahedral transition state. The pH-rate profiles are also consistent with the GDP-linked amino sugar substrate entering the active site in its unprotonated form. Finally, for this investigation, we show that PerB can accept GDP-3-deoxyperosarnine as an alternative substrate, thus representing the production of a novel trideoxysugar.
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