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| - | A strategy to control the activity of urease for medical and agricultural applications is to use enzyme inhibitors. Fluoride is a known urease inhibitor, but the structural basis of its mode of inhibition are still undetermined. Here, kinetic studies on the fluoride-induced inhibition of urease from ''Sporosarcina pasteurii'', a widespread and highly ureolytic soil bacterium, revealed a mixed competitive and uncompetitive mechanism. The pH-dependence of the inhibition constants, investigated in the 6.5-8.0 range, reveals a predominant uncompetitive mechanism that increases by increasing the pH, and a lesser competitive inhibition that increases by lowering the pH. Ten crystal structures of the enzyme were independently determined using five crystals of the <scene name='59/596313/Cv/13'>native form</scene> and five crystals of the protein crystallised in the presence of fluoride. The analysis of these structures revealed the presence of <scene name='59/596313/Cv/14'>two fluoride anions coordinated to the Ni(II) ions in the active site</scene>, in terminal and bridging positions (<span style="color:gold;background-color:black;font-weight:bold;">both fluorides are colored in gold</span>). <scene name='59/596313/Cv/ | + | A strategy to control the activity of urease for medical and agricultural applications is to use enzyme inhibitors. Fluoride is a known urease inhibitor, but the structural basis of its mode of inhibition are still undetermined. Here, kinetic studies on the fluoride-induced inhibition of urease from ''Sporosarcina pasteurii'', a widespread and highly ureolytic soil bacterium, revealed a mixed competitive and uncompetitive mechanism. The pH-dependence of the inhibition constants, investigated in the 6.5-8.0 range, reveals a predominant uncompetitive mechanism that increases by increasing the pH, and a lesser competitive inhibition that increases by lowering the pH. Ten crystal structures of the enzyme were independently determined using five crystals of the <scene name='59/596313/Cv/13'>native form</scene> and five crystals of the protein crystallised in the presence of fluoride. The analysis of these structures revealed the presence of <scene name='59/596313/Cv/14'>two fluoride anions coordinated to the Ni(II) ions in the active site</scene>, in terminal and bridging positions (<span style="color:gold;background-color:black;font-weight:bold;">both fluorides are colored in gold</span>). <scene name='59/596313/Cv/20'>Click here to see animation</scene>. |
Structural studies on ureases have revealed that the immediate environment around the two Ni(II) ions at the active site is conserved, as to induce a common mechanism of catalysis whose key step is the nucleophilic attack of the nickel-bridging hydroxide on the urea molecule bound to the bimetallic nickel cluster via O and N atoms (see static image below). | Structural studies on ureases have revealed that the immediate environment around the two Ni(II) ions at the active site is conserved, as to induce a common mechanism of catalysis whose key step is the nucleophilic attack of the nickel-bridging hydroxide on the urea molecule bound to the bimetallic nickel cluster via O and N atoms (see static image below). | ||
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