The glmS ribozyme tunes the catalytically critical pK(a) of its coenzyme glucosamine-6-phosphate.
The glmS ribozyme tunes the catalytically critical pK(a) of its coenzyme glucosamine-6-phosphate.
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DOI:
10.1021/ja205185g
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发表时间:
2011-09-14
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
Carey, Paul R.
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作者:
Gong, Bo;Klein, Daniel J.;Ferre-D'Amare, Adrian R.;Carey, Paul R.
The glmS ribozyme-riboswitch is the first known natural catalytic RNA that employs a small molecule cofactor. Binding of glucosamine-6-phosphate (GlcN6P) uncovers the latent self-cleavage activity of the RNA, which adopts a catalytically competent conformation, which is nonetheless inactive, in the absence of GlcN6P. Structural and analog studies suggest that the amine of GlcN6P functions as a general acid-base catalyst, while its phosphate is important for binding affinity. However, the solution pKa of the amine is 8.06±0.05, which is not optimal for proton transfer. Here, we use Raman crystallography directly to determine the pKa’s of GlcN6P bound to the glmS ribozyme. Binding to the RNA lowers the pKa of the amine of GlcN6P to 7.26±0.09, and raises the pKa of its phosphate to 6.35±0.09. Remarkably, the pKa’s of these two functional groups are unchanged from their values for free GlcN6P (8.06±0.05 and 5.98±0.05, respectively) when GlcN6P binds to the catalytically inactive but structurally unperturbed G40A mutant of the ribozyme, thus implicating the ribozyme active site guanine in pKa tuning. This is the first demonstration that a ribozyme can tune the pKa of a small-molecule ligand. Moreover, the anionic glmS ribozyme in effect stabilizes the neutral amine of GlcN6P by lowering its pKa. This is unprecedented, and illustrates the chemical sophistication of ribozyme active sites.
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DOI:
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