N.K.Stewart
et al.
(2021).
In Crystallo Time-Resolved Interaction of the Clostridioides difficile CDD-1 enzyme with Avibactam Provides New Insights into the Catalytic Mechanism of Class D β-lactamases.
ACS Infect Dis,
7,
1765-1776.
PubMed id: 33908775
DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00094
In Crystallo Time-Resolved Interaction of the Clostridioides difficile CDD-1 enzyme with Avibactam Provides New Insights into the Catalytic Mechanism of Class D β-lactamases.
Class D β-lactamases have risen to notoriety due to their wide spread in
bacterial pathogens, propensity to inactivate clinically important β-lactam
antibiotics, and ability to withstand inhibition by the majority of classical
β-lactamase inhibitors. Understanding the catalytic mechanism of these enzymes
is thus vitally important for the development of novel antibiotics and
inhibitors active against infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Here we report an in crystallo time-resolved study of the interaction of
the class D β-lactamase CDD-1 from Clostridioides difficile with the
diazobicyclooctane inhibitor, avibactam. We show that the catalytic carboxylated
lysine, a residue that is essential for both acylation and deacylation of
β-lactams, is sequestered within an internal sealed pocket of the enzyme.
Time-resolved snapshots generated in this study allowed us to observe
decarboxylation of the lysine and movement of CO2 and water molecules
through a transient channel formed between the lysine pocket and the substrate
binding site facilitated by rotation of the side chain of a conserved leucine
residue. These studies provide novel insights on avibactam binding to CDD-1 and
into the catalytic mechanism of class D β-lactamases in general.