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Template:STRUCTURE 2gl9

Crystal Structure of Glycosylasparaginase-Substrate Complex

Overview

Glycosylasparaginase (GA) plays an important role in asparagine-linked glycoprotein degradation. A deficiency in the activity of human GA leads to a lysosomal storage disease named aspartylglycosaminuria. GA belongs to a superfamily of N-terminal nucleophile hydrolases that autoproteolytically generate their mature enzymes from inactive single chain protein precursors. The side-chain of the newly exposed N-terminal residue then acts as a nucleophile during substrate hydrolysis. By taking advantage of mutant enzyme of Flavobacterium meningosepticum GA with reduced enzymatic activity, we have obtained a crystallographic snapshot of a productive complex with its substrate (NAcGlc-Asn), at 2.0 A resolution. This complex structure provided us an excellent model for the Michaelis complex to examine the specific contacts critical for substrate binding and catalysis. Substrate binding induces a conformational change near the active site of GA. To initiate catalysis, the side-chain of the N-terminal Thr152 is polarized by the free alpha-amino group on the same residue, mediated by the side-chain hydroxyl group of Thr170. Cleavage of the amide bond is then accomplished by a nucleophilic attack at the carbonyl carbon of the amide linkage in the substrate, leading to the formation of an acyl-enzyme intermediate through a negatively charged tetrahedral transition state.

About this Structure

2GL9 is a Protein complex structure of sequences from Elizabethkingia meningoseptica. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.

Reference

Crystallographic snapshot of a productive glycosylasparaginase-substrate complex., Wang Y, Guo HC, J Mol Biol. 2007 Feb 9;366(1):82-92. Epub 2006 Sep 26. PMID:17157318 Page seeded by OCA on Sun May 4 05:13:46 2008