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ENDOR structural characterization of a catalytically competent acylenzyme reaction intermediate of wild-type TEM-1 beta-lactamase confirms glutamate-166 as the base catalyst.

Abstract：

:The catalytically competent active-site structure of a true acylenzyme reaction intermediate of TEM-1 beta-lactamase formed with the kinetically specific spin-labeled substrate 6-N-(2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-1-oxypyrrolinyl-3-carboxyl)-penicillanic acid isolated under cryoenzymologic conditions has been determined by angle-selected electron nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy. Cryoenzymologic experiments with use of the chromophoric substrate 6-N-[3-(2-furanyl)-propen-2-oyl]-penicillanic acid showed that the acylenzyme reaction intermediate could be stabilized in the -35 to -75 degrees C range with a half-life suitably long to allow freeze-quenching of the reaction species for ENDOR studies while a noncovalent Michaelis complex could be optically identified at temperatures only below -70 degrees C. The wild-type, Glu166Asn, Glu240Cys, and Met272Cys mutant forms of the mature enzyme were overexpressed in perdeuterated minimal medium to allow detection and assignment of proton resonances specific for the substrate and chemically modified amino acid residues in the active site. From analysis of the dependence of the ENDOR spectra on the setting of the static laboratory magnetic field H0, the dipolar contributions to the principal hyperfine coupling components were estimated to calculate the separations between the unpaired electron of the nitroxyl group and isotopically identified nuclei. These electron-nucleus distances were applied as constraints to assign the conformation of the substrate in the active site and of amino acid side chains by molecular modeling. Of special interest was that the ENDOR spectra revealed a water molecule sequestered in the active site of the acylenzyme of the wild-type protein that was not detected in the deacylation impaired Glu166Asn mutant. On the basis of the X-ray structure of the enzyme, the ENDOR distance constraints placed this water molecule within hydrogen-bonding distance to the carboxylate side chain of glutamate-166 as if it were poised for nucleophilic attack of the scissile ester bond. The ENDOR results provide experimental evidence of glutamate-166 in its functional role as the general base catalyst in the wild-type enzyme for hydrolytic breakdown of the acylenzyme reaction intermediate of TEM-1 beta-lactamase.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Mustafi D,Sosa-Peinado A,Makinen MW

doi

10.1021/bi0021075

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-02-27 00:00:00

pages

2397-409

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

pii

bi0021075

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ENDOR structural characterization of a catalytically competent acylenzyme reaction intermediate of wild-type TEM-1 beta-lactamase confirms glutamate-166 as the base catalyst.