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PDBsum entry 2cda

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Oxidoreductase PDB id
2cda
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Protein chains
360 a.a.
Ligands
NAP ×2
Metals
_ZN ×4
Waters ×156

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Title The structural basis of substrate promiscuity in glucose dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon sulfolobus solfataricus.
Authors C.C.Milburn, H.J.Lamble, A.Theodossis, S.D.Bull, D.W.Hough, M.J.Danson, G.L.Taylor.
Ref. J Biol Chem, 2006, 281, 14796-14804. [DOI no: 10.1074/jbc.M601334200]
PubMed id 16556607
Abstract
The hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus grows optimally above 80 degrees C and utilizes an unusual, promiscuous, non-phosphorylative Entner-Doudoroff pathway to metabolize both glucose and galactose. The first enzyme in this pathway, glucose dehydrogenase, catalyzes the oxidation of glucose to gluconate, but has been shown to have activity with a broad range of sugar substrates, including glucose, galactose, xylose, and L-arabinose, with a requirement for the glucose stereo configuration at the C2 and C3 positions. Here we report the crystal structure of the apo form of glucose dehydrogenase to a resolution of 1.8 A and a complex with its required cofactor, NADP+, to a resolution of 2.3 A. A T41A mutation was engineered to enable the trapping of substrate in the crystal. Complexes of the enzyme with D-glucose and D-xylose are presented to resolutions of 1.6 and 1.5 A, respectively, that provide evidence of selectivity for the beta-anomeric, pyranose form of the substrate, and indicate that this is the productive substrate form. The nature of the promiscuity of glucose dehydrogenase is also elucidated, and a physiological role for this enzyme in xylose metabolism is suggested. Finally, the structure suggests that the mechanism of sugar oxidation by this enzyme may be similar to that described for human sorbitol dehydrogenase.
Figure 1.
FIGURE 1. Stereo images of the apo SsGDH tetramer (A) and monomer (B). The A-monomer is shown with the nucleotide-binding domain in red and the catalytic domain in blue. The position of the GXGXXG motif is highlighted in yellow. Zinc ions are shown as magenta spheres, and the catalytic zinc-coordinated water is shown as a green sphere.In B, the N and C termini of the monomer are indicated by green and red spheres, respectively.
Figure 3.
FIGURE 3. A, glucose bound to the SsGDH active site in the A-monomer. Coloring is as in Fig. 2B with the mutation T41A highlighted by orange carbons and the glucose molecule shown with purple carbons and red oxygens, with both C6-hydroxyl conformations. Unbiased F[c] -F[c] electron density for the substrate is shown as green mesh (contoured at 2.25 ). Hydrogen bonds between the protein and glucose are shown as broken black lines, and gray broken lines indicate interactions of 3.5-3.7 Å that are possible hydrogen bonds at the moment of catalysis. Asp^154 sits below the sugar ring interacting with the C2- and C3-hydroxyls. B, xylose bound to the SsGDH active site of monomer A. Coloring is as in A, but the glucose molecule is shown in the equatorial -form with purple carbons and red oxygens, and in the axial ( -form) with wheat-colored carbons. Unbiased F[c] - F[c] electron density for the substrate is shown as green mesh (contoured at 2.25 ). Hydrogen bonds between the protein and -xylose are shown as broken black lines, and gray broken lines indicate interactions of <3.5-3.7 Å that are possible hydrogen bonds at the moment of catalysis. Hydrogen bonds to the -form are not shown, because most, with the exception of the C1-OH interactions, are maintained and no new hydrogen bonds are formed in the -form. C, superposition of glucose (green) and xylose (blue) in the active site of the A-monomer. The two positions for O6 of glucose are displayed, as are the two positions of O1 of xylose. Glu^114 undergoes a conformational change between the glucose and xylose complex structures; the alternative position for this residue in the xylose structure is depicted in wheat-colored carbons.
The above figures are reprinted by permission from the ASBMB: J Biol Chem (2006, 281, 14796-14804) copyright 2006.
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