ELECTROPHILIC CATALYSIS IN TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE - THE ROLE OF HISTIDINE-95
ELECTROPHILIC CATALYSIS IN TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE - THE ROLE OF HISTIDINE-95
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00226a005
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发表时间:
1991-03-26
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
KNOWLES, JR
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作者:
KOMIVES, EA;CHANG, LC;KNOWLES, JR
Electrophilic catalysis by histidine-95 in triosephosphate isomerase has been probed by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. The carbonyl stretching frequency of dihydroxyacetone phosphate bound to the wild-type enzyme is known to be 19 cm-1 lower (at 1713 cm-1) than that of dihydroxyacetone phosphate free in solution (at 1732 cm-1), and this decrease in stretching frequency has been ascribed to an enzymic electrophile that polarizes the substrate carbonyl group toward the transition state for the enolization. Infrared spectra of substrate bound to two site-directed mutants of yeast triosephosphate isomerase in which histidine-95 has been changed to glutamine or to asparagine show unperturbed carbonyl stretching frequencies between 1732 and 1742 cm-1. The lack of carbonyl polarization when histidine-95 is removed suggests that histidine-95 is indeed the catalytic electrophile, at least for dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Kinetic studies of the glutamine mutant (H95Q) have shown that the enzyme follows a subtly different mechanism of proton transfers involving only a single acid-base catalytic group. These findings suggest an additional role for histidine-95 as a general acid-base catalyst in the wild-type enzyme. The X-ray crystal structure of the H95Q mutant with an intermediate analogue, phosphoglycolohydroxamate, bound at the active site has been solved to 2.8-angstrom resolution, and this structure clearly implicates glutamate-165, the catalytic base in the wild-type isomerase, as the sole acid-base catalyst for the mutant enzyme. Glutamate-165 is the only residue that is significantly displaced in the H95Q mutant protein: the carboxylate group has moved by more than 2 angstrom from its position in the wild-type enzyme. The repositioning of glutamate-165 causes the carboxylate oxygen that is closer to the substrate to be almost equidistant from both C-1 and C-2 and both O-1 and O-2 of the substrate. The fact that glutamate-165 is recruited to perform the proton transfers involving the substrate oxygens during catalysis by the H95Q enzyme strongly suggests that histidine-95 is responsible for this function in the wild-type protein. Histidine-95 thus plays a dual role as an electrophile and as a general acid-base in the catalysis of triose phosphate isomerization.