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Product specificity and mechanism of protein lysine methyltransferases: insights from the histone lysine methyltransferase SET8.

Abstract：

:Molecular dynamics simulations employing a molecular mechanics (MM) force field and hybrid quantum mechanics (QM) and MM (QM/MM) have been carried out to investigate the product specificity and mechanism of the histone H4 lysine 20 (H4-K20) methylation by human histone lysine methyltransferase SET8. At neutral pH, the target lysine is available to only the enzyme in the protonated state. The first step in the methylation reaction must be deprotonation of the lysine target which is followed by the (+)AdoMet methylation of the neutral lysine [Enz.Lys-CH(2)-NH(3)(+).(+)AdoMet --> H(+) + Enz.Lys-CH(2)-NH(2).(+)AdoMet -->--> Enz.Lys-CH(2)-N(Me)H(2)(+).AdoHcy]. The electrostatic interactions between two positive charges on (+)AdoMet and Lys20-NH(3)(+) decrease the pK(a) of Lys20-NH(3)(+). Upon formation of Enz.Lys-NH(3)(+).(+)AdoMet, a water channel by which the proton escapes to the outer solvent phase is formed. The formation of a water channel for the escape of a proton from Lys20-N(Me)H(2)(+) in Enz.Lys20-N(Me)H(2)(+).(+)AdoMet is not formed because the methyl substituent blocks the starting of the water channel. Thus, a second methylation does not take place. The dependence of the occurrence of methyl transfer on the formation of a water channel in SET8 is in accord with our previous reports on product specificity by histone lysine monomethyltransferase SET7/9, large subunit lysine dimethyltransferase (LSMT), and viral histone lysine trimethyltransferase (vSET). The average value of the experimental DeltaG(E)() for the six lysine methyl transfer reactions catalyzed by vSET, LSMT, and SET7/9 with p53 as a substrate is 22.1 +/- 1.0 kcal/mol, and the computed average (DeltaG(C)()) is 22.2 +/- 0.8 kcal/mol. In this study, the computed free energy barrier of the methyl transfer reaction [Lys20-NH(2) + (+)AdoMet --> Lys20-N(Me)H(2)(+) + AdoHcy] catalyzed by SET8 is 20.8 kcal/mol. This is in agreement with the value of 20.6 kcal/mol calculated from the experimental rate constant (0.43 +/- 0.02 min(-1)). Our bond-order computations establish that the H4-K20 monomethylation in SET8 is a concerted linear S(N)2 displacement reaction.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Zhang X,Bruice TC

doi

10.1021/bi800244s

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-06-24 00:00:00

pages

6671-7

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

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Product specificity and mechanism of protein lysine methyltransferases: insights from the histone lysine methyltransferase SET8.