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Publication Abstract from PubMed

Saccharopine dehydrogenase (SDH) catalyzes the final reaction in the alpha-aminoadipate pathway, the conversion of L-saccharopine to L-lysine (Lys) and alpha-ketoglutarate (alpha-Kg) using NAD+ as an oxidant. The enzyme utilizes a general acid-base mechanism to carry out its reaction with a base proposed to accept a proton from the secondary amine of saccharopine in the oxidation step and group proposed to activate water to hydrolyze the resulting imine. Crystal structures of an open apo-form and a closed form of the enzyme with saccharopine and NADH bound have been solved at 2.0 A and 2.2 A resolution, respectively. In the ternary complex, a significant movement of domain I relative to domain II is observed that closes the active site cleft between the two domains and brings H96 and K77 in close proximity to the substrate binding site. The hydride transfer distance is 3.6 A, and the side chains of H96 and K77 are properly positioned to act as acid-base catalysts. Preparation of the K77 to M, H96 to Q single and the K77M/H96Q double mutant enzymes provide data consistent with their role as the general acid-base catalysts in the SDH reaction. The side chain of K77 initially accepts a proton from the epsilon-amine of the substrate Lys and eventually donates it to the imino nitrogen as it is reduced to a secondary amine in the hydride transfer step, and H96 protonates the carbonyl oxygen as the carbinolamine is formed. The K77M, H976Q, and K77M/H96Q mutant enzymes give 145-, 28-, and 700-fold decreases in V/Et and >103 increases in V2/KLysEt and V2/Kalpha-KgEt (the double mutation gives >105-fold decreases in the second order rate constants). In addition, the K77M mutant enzyme exhibits a primary deuterium kinetic isotope effect of 2.0 and an inverse solvent deuterium isotope effect of 0.77 on V2/KLys. A value of 2.0 was also observed for D(V2/KLys)D2O when the primary deuterium kinetic isotope effect was repeated in D2O, consistent with a rate-limiting hydride transfer step. A viscosity effect of 0.8 was observed on V2/KLys indicating the solvent deuterium isotope effect resulted from stabilization of an enzyme form prior to hydride transfer. A small normal solvent isotope effect is observed on V, which decreases slightly when repeated with NADD, consistent with a contribution from product release to rate limitation. In addition, V2/KLysEt is pH independent consistent with the loss of an acid-base catalyst and perturbation of the pKa of the second catalytic group to higher pH, likely a result of a change in the overall charge in the active site. The primary deuterium kinetic isotope effect for H96Q, measured in H2O or D2O, is within error equal to 1. A solvent deuterium isotope effect of 2.4 is observed with NADH or NADD as the dinucleotide substrate. Data suggest rate-limiting imine formation, consistent with the proposed role of H96 in protonating the leaving hydroxyl as the imine is formed. The pH-rate profile for V2/KLysEt exhibits the pKa for K77, perturbed to a value of about 9, which must be unprotonated in order to accept a proton from the epsilon-amine of the substrate Lys so that it can act as a nucleophile. Overall, data are consistent with a role for K77 acting as the base that accepts a proton from the epsilon-amine of the substrate lysine prior to nucleophilic attack on the alpha-oxo group of alpha-ketoglutarate, and finally donating a proton to the imine nitrogen as it is reduced to give saccharopine. In addition, data indicate a role for H96 acting as a general acid-base catalyst in formation of the imine between the epsilon-amine of lysine and the alpha-oxo group of alpha-ketoglutarate.

Evidence in Support of Lysine 77 and Histidine 96 as Acid-base Catalytic Residues in Saccharopine Dehydrogenase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.,Kumar VP, Thomas LM, Bobyk KD, Andi B, Cook PF, West AH Biochemistry. 2012 Jan 13. PMID:22243403^[1]

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