Crystallographic snapshot of a productive glycosylasparaginase-substrate complex

Glycosylasparaginase (GA) plays an important role in asparagine-linked glycoprotein degradation. A deficiency in the activity of human GA leads to a lysosomal storage disease named aspartylglycosaminuria. GA belongs to a superfamily of N-terminal nucleophile hydrolases that autoproteolytically generate their mature enzymes from inactive single chain protein precursors. The side-chain of the newly exposed N-terminal residue then acts as a nucleophile during substrate hydrolysis. By taking advantage of mutant enzyme of Flavobacterium meningosepticum GA with reduced enzymatic activity, we have obtained a crystallographic snapshot of a productive complex with its substrate (NAcGlc-Asn), at 2.0 A resolution. This complex structure provided us an excellent model for the Michaelis complex to examine the specific contacts critical for substrate binding and catalysis. Substrate binding induces a conformational change near the active site of GA. To initiate catalysis, the side-chain of the N-terminal Thr152 is polarized by the free alpha-amino group on the same residue, mediated by the side-chain hydroxyl group of Thr170. Cleavage of the amide bond is then accomplished by a nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl carbon of the amide linkage in the substrate, leading to the formation of an acyl-enzyme intermediate through a negatively charged tetrahedral transition state.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2007

Erschienen:

2007

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:366

Enthalten in:

Journal of molecular biology - 366(2007), 1 vom: 09. Feb., Seite 82-92

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Yeming [VerfasserIn]
Guo, Hwai-Chen [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Amidohydrolases
Aspartylglucosylaminase
EC 3.5.-
EC 3.5.1.-
EC 3.5.1.26
Journal Article
N-terminal nucleophile hydrolase
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 20.03.2007

Date Revised 27.12.2018

published: Print-Electronic

PDB: 2GL9

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM167077880