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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) is an enzyme involved in the synthesis of amino acids by converting glutamate to alpha-ketoglutarate, and vice versa. To investigate the molecular mechanism of GDH, we determined a crystal structure of the Corynebacterium glutamicum-derived GDH (CgGDH) in complex with its NADP cofactor and alpha-ketoglutarate substrate. CgGDH functions as a hexamer, and each CgGDH monomer comprises 2 separate domains; a Rossmann fold cofactor-binding domain and a substrate-binding domain. The structural comparison between the apo- and cofactor/substrate-binding forms revealed that the CgGDH enzyme undergoes a domain movement during catalysis. In the apo-form, CgGDH exists as an open state, and upon binding of the substrate and cofactor the protein undergoes a conformation change to a closed state. Our structural study also revealed that CgGDH has cofactor specificity for NADP, but not NAD, and this was confirmed by GDH activity measurements. Residues involved in the stabilization of the NADP cofactor and the alpha-ketoglutarate substrate were identified, and their roles in substrate/cofactor binding were confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis experiments.

Structural insights into domain movement and cofactor specificity of glutamate dehydrogenase from Corynebacterium glutamicum.,Son HF, Kim IK, Kim KJ Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2015 Apr 10;459(3):387-92. doi:, 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.02.109. Epub 2015 Feb 27. PMID:25727019^[1]

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