Structural highlights
Function
[OPD_BREDI] Has an unusual substrate specificity for synthetic organophosphate triesters and phosphorofluoridates. All of the phosphate triesters found to be substrates are synthetic compounds. The identity of any naturally occurring substrate for the enzyme is unknown. Has no detectable activity with phosphate monoesters or diesters and no activity as an esterase or protease. It catalyzes the hydrolysis of the insecticide paraoxon at a rate approaching the diffusion limit and thus appears to be optimally evolved for utilizing this synthetic substrate.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Organophosphorus hydrolase detoxifies a broad range of organophosphate pesticides and the chemical warfare agents (CWAs) sarin and VX. Previously, rational genetic engineering produced OPH variants with 30-fold enhancements in the hydrolysis of CWA and their analogs. One interesting variant (H254R) in which the histidine at position 254 was changed to an arginine showed a 4-fold increase in the hydrolysis of demetonS (VX analog), a 14-fold decrease with paraoxon (an insecticide), and a 183-fold decrease with DFP (sarin analog). The three-dimensional structure of this enzyme at 1.9A resolution with the inhibitor, diethyl 4-methylbenzylphosphonate (EBP), revealed that the inhibitor did not bind at the active site, but bound exclusively into a well-defined surface pocket 12 A away from the active site. This structural feature was accompanied by non-competitive inhibition of paraoxon hydrolysis by EBP with H254R, in contrast to the native enzyme, which showed competitive inhibition. These parallel structure-function characteristics identify a functional, allosteric site on the surface of this enzyme.
Structural and mutational studies of organophosphorus hydrolase reveal a cryptic and functional allosteric-binding site.,Grimsley JK, Calamini B, Wild JR, Mesecar AD Arch Biochem Biophys. 2005 Oct 15;442(2):169-79. Epub 2005 Sep 6. PMID:16188223[1]
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References
- ↑ Grimsley JK, Calamini B, Wild JR, Mesecar AD. Structural and mutational studies of organophosphorus hydrolase reveal a cryptic and functional allosteric-binding site. Arch Biochem Biophys. 2005 Oct 15;442(2):169-79. Epub 2005 Sep 6. PMID:16188223 doi:10.1016/j.abb.2005.08.012
