Structural highlights
Disease
[PYGL_HUMAN] Defects in PYGL are the cause of glycogen storage disease type 6 (GSD6) [MIM:232700]. A metabolic disorder characterized by mild to moderate hypoglycemia, mild ketosis, growth retardation, and prominent hepatomegaly. Heart and skeletal muscle are not affected.[1]
Function
[PYGL_HUMAN] Phosphorylase is an important allosteric enzyme in carbohydrate metabolism. Enzymes from different sources differ in their regulatory mechanisms and in their natural substrates. However, all known phosphorylases share catalytic and structural properties.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Glycogen phosphorylase (GP) is a validated target for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Here we describe highly potent GP inhibitors, AVE5688, AVE2865, and AVE9423. The first two compounds are optimized members of the acyl urea series. The latter represents a novel quinolone class of GP inhibitors, which is introduced in this study. In the enzyme assay, both inhibitor types compete with the physiological activator AMP and act synergistically with glucose. Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) shows that the compounds strongly bind to nonphosphorylated, inactive GP (GPb). Binding to phosphorylated, active GP (GPa) is substantially weaker, and the thermodynamic profile reflects a coupled transition to the inactive (tense) conformation. Crystal structures confirm that the three inhibitors bind to the AMP site of tense state GP. These data provide the first direct evidence that acyl urea and quinolone compounds are allosteric inhibitors that selectively bind to and stabilize the inactive conformation of the enzyme. Furthermore, ITC reveals markedly different thermodynamic contributions to inhibitor potency that can be related to the binding modes observed in the cocrystal structures. For AVE5688, which occupies only the lower part of the bifurcated AMP site, binding to GPb (Kd = 170 nM) is exclusively enthalpic (Delta H = -9.0 kcal/mol, TDelta S = 0.3 kcal/mol). The inhibitors AVE2865 (Kd = 9 nM, Delta H = -6.8 kcal/mol, TDelta S = 4.2 kcal/mol) and AVE9423 (Kd = 24 nM, Delta H = -5.9 kcal/mol, TDelta S = 4.6 kcal/mol) fully exploit the volume of the binding pocket. Their pronounced binding entropy can be attributed to the extensive displacement of solvent molecules as well as to ionic interactions with the phosphate recognition site.
Thermodynamic characterization of allosteric glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors.,Anderka O, Loenze P, Klabunde T, Dreyer MK, Defossa E, Wendt KU, Schmoll D Biochemistry. 2008 Apr 22;47(16):4683-91. Epub 2008 Mar 29. PMID:18373353[2]
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See Also
References
- ↑ Burwinkel B, Bakker HD, Herschkovitz E, Moses SW, Shin YS, Kilimann MW. Mutations in the liver glycogen phosphorylase gene (PYGL) underlying glycogenosis type VI. Am J Hum Genet. 1998 Apr;62(4):785-91. PMID:9529348
- ↑ Anderka O, Loenze P, Klabunde T, Dreyer MK, Defossa E, Wendt KU, Schmoll D. Thermodynamic characterization of allosteric glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors. Biochemistry. 2008 Apr 22;47(16):4683-91. Epub 2008 Mar 29. PMID:18373353 doi:10.1021/bi702397d
